Start Up Right 7: Personal Growth
Continuing our theme of unexpected aspects of working for yourself, I want to cover how working for yourself will affect you. Massive Distrust I often talk about how entrepreneurs will go through a ‘trial by fire.’ If you aren’t used to dealing with late paying and demanding clients then it will most often come as […]
Start Up Right 6: Levels Of Success
I’m covering some of the more unexpected aspects of working for yourself. I want to cover a lot of the questions I get around timescales and sort of levels of success. Blanket Phrase Success is a very broad blanket phrase, what success looks like for one person will vary greatly to another and it’s important […]
Start Up Right 5: Money
I have been talking about starting your self-employment journey in the right manner and trying to cover some of the more unexpected elements that come along with it. Let’s talk about one of the more taboo subjects, Money. >Self Employment Allow me to start with a harsh truth. Most people who are self-employed would make […]
Start Up Right 4: Clients
I’m covering unexpected aspects of working for yourself. This week we are talking about clients. Many Bosses Generally speaking in the world of work you won’t have that many bosses, and usually after a few months you can get used to the tics and habits. When working for yourself you suddenly have several different bosses […]
Start Up Right 3: Your Skillset?
I’m talking about starting up your self employment/business in the right manner and a key aspect of this is knowing what to expect. Here I want to talk about your own skills coming into it. Skills That Pay Bills Normally, and especially on the freelance side people have the distinct impression that being successful is […]
Start Up Right 2: Working Hours
One of the main challenges right at the beginning of starting a business/self employment is simply not knowing what working for yourself is actually like. People have a certain image in their head when they think of self employment..so here are some things you might not be expecting. Most people who are thinking about working […]
Start Up Right 1: Just A Hobby?
My next topic of blogs is all about starting a business in the right way to ensure long term success. In fact, if you read long enough I’m going to be taking you through every stage of growing your business from back bedroom to swanky office. In this first lesson I want to ask a […]
Post Project Steps 9: Your Questions
To finish up our topic of all the things you should do after a project is over, I once again turn to you and the questions you’ve been asking me. Here goes! You talked about evaluating ourselves and our performance…should we also do that for the client? I don’t think you can rate a client […]
Post Project Steps 8: Implementation
Now that you’ve evaluated your feedback it’s important you take stock and think about ways you can improve your business and service. Now obviously there’s no catch all lesson I can write that will apply to everyone, but here are a few things I’d expect to see as your business grows. More Procedures Not what […]
Post Projects Steps 5: Communication
With some clients, you want to run to the hills as fast as you can and never see them again, but with most its worth keeping in touch. Here’s a few ways you should go about it. CRM I’ve talked a few times about the importance of having a Customer Relationship Manager. This can be […]
