Starting a business
How to find Disruptive Ideas for creating a product/startup: Begin with your interests: Something you always wanted to do, having read or heard about all your adult life. Nex...
Starting a business
Personal Analysis Create this chart: Column 1: Skills and Knowledge Needed to Run This Kind of Business Successfully Column 2: Skills and Knowledge That I Have Column 2...
Starting a business
What is a Business? Peter Drucker said, 'The purpose of a business is to find a customer.' What being in business means 1. Making and selli...
Freelancing skills
Generally, a bad client means a client who won't pay up on time or is abusive. Here are main situations when clients become 'that person from hell': Accept this as part of doi...
Freelancing skills
Basically, put everything in writing: The contract, letter of agreement, deal memo, adoptive admission, confirming email, client approvals etc. Â The Triple-A Troubleshooting strategy &nbs...
Freelancing skills
How you should set boundaries with clients: Things to do before starting out with the project: 1. Anything else you need to discuss in the contract? Loose ends? ...
Freelancing skills
Here are the things commonly found in most freelance project contracts. The actual items in the contract depend very much on the traditions of your particular industry and/or mutual agreement between ...
Freelancing skills
The secret of many long running freelancing agencies is that they have optimized their process, from end to start, using templates (email, invoice, reminders etc) and checklists (client information, p...
Freelancing skills
Apart from the all the above tips for freelancing success ('Client flow', pricing, proposals, networking etc), some tips for successful dealings on the freelance job websites such as Odesk etc...
Freelancing skills
As a freelancer, you are basically working in a 'dollars-for-your-hours' economy, and thus you only have 24 hours each day and thus can only have a limited number of clients. Here...
Starting a Business: Have an idea
How to find Disruptive Ideas for creating a product/startup: Begin with your interests: Something you always wanted to do, having read or heard about all your adult life. Nex...
Starting a business
Starting a Business: Validate yourself
Personal Analysis Create this chart: Column 1: Skills and Knowledge Needed to Run This Kind of Business Successfully Column 2: Skills and Knowledge That I Have Column 2...
Starting a business
The Basics Of Starting and Running Your Own Business
What is a Business? Peter Drucker said, 'The purpose of a business is to find a customer.' What being in business means 1. Making and selli...
Freelancing skills
Dealing With Bad Clients
Generally, a bad client means a client who won't pay up on time or is abusive. Here are main situations when clients become 'that person from hell': Accept this as part of doi...
Freelancing skills
Freelancing Troubleshooting Guide
Basically, put everything in writing: The contract, letter of agreement, deal memo, adoptive admission, confirming email, client approvals etc. Â The Triple-A Troubleshooting strategy &nbs...
Freelancing skills
Working With Clients
How you should set boundaries with clients: Things to do before starting out with the project: 1. Anything else you need to discuss in the contract? Loose ends? ...
Freelancing skills
A Quick Guide Through The Freelancing Contract
Here are the things commonly found in most freelance project contracts. The actual items in the contract depend very much on the traditions of your particular industry and/or mutual agreement between ...
Freelancing skills
The Client Flow
The secret of many long running freelancing agencies is that they have optimized their process, from end to start, using templates (email, invoice, reminders etc) and checklists (client information, p...
Freelancing skills
Succeeding On Freelance Job Websites
Apart from the all the above tips for freelancing success ('Client flow', pricing, proposals, networking etc), some tips for successful dealings on the freelance job websites such as Odesk etc...
Freelancing skills
How To Scale Your Freelance Business
Make moneyAs a freelancer, you are basically working in a 'dollars-for-your-hours' economy, and thus you only have 24 hours each day and thus can only have a limited number of clients. Here...