From Freelancer to Firm
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- jamble0
Freecycle is good. I work from home with the wife and I opted to go to the timber yard up the road and built my own desks from MDF and fence posts .. that saved a few hundred quid!
I don't know how you can't find someone who doesn't want to work with you in your outhouse though!
I guess in terms of finding a partner, it's tough, I don't think you need an account handler if there's only a couple of you. It's not rocket science handling accounts. It's just something most creatives don't tend to want to take up lots of time to do. I have to do it as well as design and build, and accounting, chasing bills etc but it's not really that hard if you're organised.
Are you "rebranding yourself" Dancer? I mean in terms of setting up a new company name etc? If so, you should be fine to increase your rates to reflect the fact that you're no longer a one man band.
Sounds fun, I do miss having someone to bounce ideas off when I'm designing but the wife has enough creative experience in the industry to be more than helpful and she works from home with me so it's good to have the company but we both do different work so we don't need to worry so much about covering two salaries.