Raising Your Freelance Rates Without Losing Clients
Raising your freelance rates is one of the most uncomfortable conversations in self-employment, and one of the most important. If your prices stay the same …
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Choosing Parcel Carriers for European Deliveries
The carrier you pick shapes what your European customers experience after they click "buy": how fast the parcel arrives, whether they can track it, where they …
Payment Methods European Shoppers Expect
A shopper who reaches your checkout and cannot find a payment method they trust is a lost sale. In Europe, the methods people expect differ from country to …
Selling to EU Customers From the UK: A Post-Brexit Guide
Since Brexit, a parcel from a UK online shop to a customer in France or Germany is an export, not a domestic-style sale. That brings customs paperwork, EU VAT, …
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Your Checkout
If a European customer has ever abandoned your checkout at the "confirm in your banking app" step, you have met Strong Customer Authentication. SCA is an EU …
GPSR Explained: EU Product Safety Rules for Sellers
Since 13 December 2024, anyone selling consumer products to people in the EU has to follow the General Product Safety Regulation, or GPSR. It changed what your …
How to Find Freelance Clients in the UK
Finding freelance clients is the part of self-employment nobody trains you for. The work you are good at only pays once someone hires you, and in the first year …