Skip to main content

3 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself as a Freelancer



It is not easy to leave the corporate world and work for yourself. To make this transition successful, there are three essential questions to when are thinking about working for yourself: who are you, what do you do, and how would you do it.

Who are You?
Before heading into self-employment, know yourself. What environment do you thrive most? What time of the day are you most creative? What is your comfortable level of income? What you want your legacy to the world be?

What do You Offer?
Ask yourself what business will you create that is aligned with your creative identity? What kinds of people will you be dealing with? What is target population? What are the ways you meet the needs of your target market?

How would You Do it?
How do you make your desire happen? How do you let passion and profit work together? How will you create your product lines or service offerings? How will you get the world to know you are in business?

To provide clarity for the whole processing of leaving the corporate work and being your own boss, take time to think about the who, what and how of your new endeavor

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

OpenShot Add Text: Subtitles and Captions

OpenShot is an open source video editing soft. Adding subtitles and captions is quite tricky. Adding subtitles takes effort. Suggestions by GeekOutdoors - You can have the soundwave form displayed so you know where the talking and pausing occurs. - You also use the green marker to help you decide how long the subtitle should be shown. - Encode the subtitles in Notepad so you can easily copy and paste it later on - Turn off the snapping tool which is on by default; to remove subtitle overlap For captions, GeekOutdoors, - used footer text, shortened the duration to like 3 seconds - if you want advanced editing of the text, you will need to download and link Inkscape to OpenShot Check out  basic OpenShot tutorial  or  list of OpenShot tutorial .

OpenShot Add Music or Sound Effects

In OpenShot, you can delete the audio of your video and replace it with another one. You can right click on the video click and select separate video. Or you can click the video and let the audio mute. There is option to fade in and fade out for the audio. If audio is longer than your clip, you can use the scissor tool to cut the audio as the video ends. Check out  basic OpenShot tutorial  or  list of OpenShot tutorial .

When to Hire Assistants for Your E Commerce Business

The questions is when will you hire an assistant to help run your business? Surely 6 figure businessmen didn't that much doing all the stuff needed to run a business. James Beattie advises to get a customer support person early on. Shopify Lifestyle shares that the first hire is the most crucial. Gabriel St-Germain has a post on automating your e commerce business. He shares there are three main time consuming tasks customer service order fulfillment marketing for customer service, he set up Zendesk and hired someone from Upwork to work at $7-8/hour Zendesk has a free to install app for Shopify but reviews were pretty bad he communicated with the CSR staff via Skype, trained this person well so this person can train newly hired CSR later on as you scale up makes macros on Zendesk so CSR agent has template on how to answer customer emails his first hire was the most important as this became the customer service manager for the new hires when he needed to scale...