Self-Employed Success

Are you self-employed, or hope to be shortly?

If so, you need to read the tips my expert source gives in this week's Smart Answers column.

These are common-sense, practical things you can do to increase your odds of success, but many (if not most) self-employed people probably don't do them. The tax account thing, in particular, is a bummer.

After 20 years as a freelancer, however, I can certainly appreciate these ideas. And when I think about the failed entrepreneurs I know whose homes are now in foreclosure and life savings destroyed, I'm even more enthusiastic.