Freelancing After 50 is a podcast for people aged 50 and older who want to consider freelancing as a "second act" career, either part- or full-time, or who are already freelancing. We interview over-fifty freelancers, letting them tell their story, and get advice for freelancers from experts in marketing, finance, tax, legal, and related fields.

The IRS just announced the official standard mileage rates for 2017 — and there are some minor decreases. IRS Mileage Rates for 2017 The IRS mileage rates for 2017 for the use of a vehicle are: 53.5 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 54 cents for 2016; 17 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, down from 19 cents for 2016; 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations. According to the announcement, the business mileage rate decreased half a...

Skype, Microsoft’s phone, chat and video conferencing service, experienced an outage this morning across parts of North and South America, the U.K., Europe and eastern Asia. But the platforms management team reported the Skype outage resolved within hours. An official announcement on Skype’s website confirmed reports. “We are aware of a problem, impacting multiple Skype services (sign-in, PSTN calls, SMS sending and etc.) Our engineers are already working on the solution and we hope the issue...

You have made the decision to hire a security agency to protect your business, but now what? What characteristics do you look for in a company? What questions should you ask? How do you differentiate one company from another? Once again, Small Business Trends turned to Greg Kuhn, founder and CEO of Omega Protective Services, for advice on the matter. He recommended that small business owners consider the following six subjects, each of which he posed in the form of a question: Ask These...