#2486 - Q&A: “I haven’t sent an invoice in two years…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, a tutor grapples with the absence of a formal invoicing system in his two-year-old math tutoring side hustle. Let’s fix that!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm really glad you're tuning in today. |
| 0:12.5 | This is Chris Gillibov for Side Us All School. |
| 0:14.5 | Today we've got an episode that kind of speaks to the heart of a core side hustling issue, |
| 0:21.0 | especially if you're doing a service business. |
| 0:23.7 | If you're selling e-commerce, it's a little bit different because people just go and buy |
| 0:27.8 | something on your website. |
| 0:29.3 | They make payment right away. |
| 0:31.3 | Often though, in performing a service, you invoice or you somehow get paid after providing |
| 0:37.2 | the service. |
| 0:38.2 | It's actually better if you can do it beforehand, but I mentioned that in my answer. |
| 0:42.4 | First though, the question, it comes from Tim and Dallas. |
| 0:45.2 | He has been tutoring math for two years and has never sent out an invoice. |
| 0:50.0 | Never sent out an invoice in two years. |
| 0:52.2 | Now, just to be clear, he has been getting paid, at least most of the time. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's just happening with cash and Venmo right out of the service. |
| 1:01.3 | In a lot of ways, it's better to have an invoicing system. |
| 1:05.8 | This isn't just about Tim's lack of an invoicing system. |
| 1:08.2 | I think there's a deeper layer here, which is the mental block. |
| 1:12.2 | Many of us face when it comes to formalizing aspects of our business that we're not familiar |
| 1:16.2 | with or that we've been running informally for a long time, might actually scare us a |
| 1:20.4 | little bit. |
| 1:21.4 | It's easy to procrastinate and just say, I'll get to it eventually, but then of course, |
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