Payment | Chris Wheal

Late pay gripes

February 12, 2010

This week, instead of being a journalist and trainer, I spent at least a day dealing with late paying clients. It was mainly AOL, which, until today, had not paid a single freelance contributor, despite us working since December.

My company has now been paid more than £10,000 by some clients and we have remittance advices in from others so will be paid by Tuesday. But as of today we have more than £21,000 of invoices outstanding, of which nearly £2,400 is already overdue. That is me lending companies money. Read More »

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Banking on me

February 4, 2010

Banks may not be lending much money right now but I certainly am. I reckon by the end of this week I will have about £28,500 of invoices outstanding. That is my business lending money to other businesses. And interest free. Read More »

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Blog or bog off

December 31, 2009

In the past few days I have worked from my Macbook using mobile internet connections from:

The top and bottom decks of double decker buses
standing up on a London commuter train
Seated on a Virgin train
On the overground section on a London tube
In a Starbucks and a Pret
Standing on Oxenholme and Lewisham stations

I have used a mix of my Vodafone dongle and my BT Openworld account. And that is in addition to several other people’s home wireless broadband networks. Read More »

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