If you spend more time on emails and invoices than on creative work, your business is running you—let’s fix that. Most creatives launch their businesses with passion and talent but quickly get overwhelmed by contracts, payments, and admin tasks that eat away at...
California’s Freelance Worker Protection Act (FWPA) empowers businesses and freelancers to collaborate better. For years, we’ve worked with freelancers and the businesses that hire them and seen how the old way of working led to disputes, ambiguity,...
DIY legal research has a hidden cost; too many creative entrepreneurs have been duped into paying that cost. Picture this: A talented artist is ready to launch their business. They spend hours sifting through Google, ChatGPT chats, forums, and social media, hoping to...
Contracts support all successful collaborations, but red flags can indicate trouble ahead. We want creatives to focus on creating without dealing with lousy contract situations. So we offer 6 red flags that we see in contracts, along with 5 shady behaviors that should...
A creative services agreement offers a crucial tool for anyone providing creative services to clients. But too many creative business owners hurt themselves when they don’t have a creative services agreement that properly supports their business. Done right, a...
The lifeblood of every business is the contracts that it has with its employees, vendors, independent contractors, customers, and more. Having a well written contract can mean the difference between the continued success of your business and legal and financial...
