When I first started using Lili, I expected the biggest adjustment to be learning the platform. It wasn't. The bigger challenge was figuring out a routine that actually worked for my business. During my first…
When I started my side business, I wasn't thinking much about administration. I had a few customers, a handful of monthly expenses, and some software subscriptions. Everything seemed small enough to remember. Then the business…
When I first started running my small business, I had no real weekly routine. I handled things whenever they became urgent. Invoices went out when I remembered them. Receipts stayed in my inbox. Subscriptions renewed…
For a long time, my tax strategy was basically this: Save everything and figure it out later. It worked — technically. But every year, “later” turned into several evenings of searching through receipts, old emails,…
When I started freelancing full-time, I thought the difficult part would be finding clients. It turned out that getting the work was only half the challenge. The other half was keeping everything around the work…
When I started working for myself, I underestimated how quickly everyday business expenses would pile up. It wasn't the big purchases that caused problems. Those were easy to remember. It was everything else: a software…