Stories about Freelancer Life, Tech & Insurance

(And why we’re unlike any other insurance company) Having been founded and built by freelancers for freelancers, we have directly addressed the issues that have really irked us about insurance. This has meant we’ve rethought and redesigned the entire process in ways you will not have seen for business insurance before: 1) Turn your insurance on and off Dinghy is the …

Happy hunting….. It is with some relief that today we “hunted” ourselves on Product Hunt. We launched Dinghy back in January and since then we have been busy refining and improving our product whilst welcoming our founder members. Now after 10 weeks we are ready to launch ourselves on Product Hunt, it’s been an intense couple of months! There were some …

Don’t just be the best player, change the game entirely In January we released the worlds first flexible business insurance product. Fully on demand insurance to suit the growing on demand workforce. For the first time ever freelancers, contractors and the self employed could turn their insurance on and off to fit their lifestyle. Not happy with just one world …

TL:DR — Because being a B Corp is the right way to run a business Longer version…. It is the last day of  B Corp month and I wanted to tell you our story….. Rob and Ed are two of the most fantastic co-founders you could dream of starting out with. When Dinghy was being formed they had many offers on the …

This is part-one of a multi-part series on Impostor Syndrome. As a B Corp we are committed to improving the lives of our customers. We have therefore created this series on overcoming one of the most frequently raised issues by freelancers. It’s a very common experience which can have a real impact on freelancer earnings. This series aims to alleviate the …

Who doesn’t love free stuff? Giving something for free will grab your customer’s attention. However, what happens when the numbers in the promotion go wrong? That’s exactly what happened to two marketing professionals working at Hoover in the UK. In a classic “something for nothing” marketing campaign they decided to offload surplus warehouse stock by offering free return flights to …

Welcome to the Dinghy 21 Day Meditation Challenge! (written by Andy Hix) By the end of the 21 days, my aim is for you to be meditating for 10 minutes every day, and for that to be helping you to:   be more focused, so that you get your work done faster and get paid sooner feel calmer, so that …

Since 2014, all employers in the UK have had a legal right to request flexible working from their employer. It’s the perfect deal for parents, right? Working hard and bringing in the chips but also being present for drop-offs, pick-ups, school plays and bedtime stories. But in the cold stark land of reality, a huge proportion of employers are still …

Andy tackles that familiar conundrum. How to switch off from work when you are a freelancer.

Do you ever get the feeling that everything from your Instagram feed to the hipster coffee shop down your street is now reserved for the new breed? The new breed, being the freelancer v 2.0. You would be correct. Freelancers are on the rise, and whether you live in London, Bristol, Leeds or Edinburgh, they are everywhere. Freelancers v 2.0 …