Comments on: The Only Expression Of Ideal Life Work? http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/2009/04/26/the-only-expression/ My Journey Of Creative Work & Self-Employment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve Coxsey http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/2009/04/26/the-only-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Steve Coxsey Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:48:31 +0000 http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/?p=336#comment-340 Absolutely right, Darcy! I think choosing well when it comes to getting help is a little bit of a high wire walk for some people. They have little cash to put towards paying someone until the revenue starts coming in, and they can't get the revenue coming in until they get certain things in place. People with an established business who want to expand can contract and do joint ventures easily. Start-ups are just figuring out how to get traction anywhere. The real secret: most of them (us) don't have anything to sell, except maybe direct service at a premium price. Absolutely right, Darcy! I think choosing well when it comes to getting help is a little bit of a high wire walk for some people. They have little cash to put towards paying someone until the revenue starts coming in, and they can’t get the revenue coming in until they get certain things in place.

People with an established business who want to expand can contract and do joint ventures easily. Start-ups are just figuring out how to get traction anywhere.

The real secret: most of them (us) don’t have anything to sell, except maybe direct service at a premium price.

]]> By: April 27, 2009 : On The Twisting Road http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/2009/04/26/the-only-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-339 April 27, 2009 : On The Twisting Road Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:18:48 +0000 http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/?p=336#comment-339 [...] Is Self-Employment The Only Expression Of Ideal Life Work? [...] [...] Is Self-Employment The Only Expression Of Ideal Life Work? [...]

]]> By: Darcy http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/2009/04/26/the-only-expression/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Darcy Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:23:47 +0000 http://www.twistingroad.com/travellog/?p=336#comment-338 I think one key to being an entrepreneur might be farming out the stuff you don't want to do yourself, bringing in others that can supplement your strengths. Administrative systems is another one like marketing that stops many people cold, they just don't have the aptitude to design, implement and maintain those kind of routine systems that keep the day-to-day going smoothly. Recognizing that you aren't good at everything it takes to run a small business and getting help where you need it sounds like an important ingredient for success that gets ignored in a lot of the information out there. I think one key to being an entrepreneur might be farming out the stuff you don’t want to do yourself, bringing in others that can supplement your strengths. Administrative systems is another one like marketing that stops many people cold, they just don’t have the aptitude to design, implement and maintain those kind of routine systems that keep the day-to-day going smoothly. Recognizing that you aren’t good at everything it takes to run a small business and getting help where you need it sounds like an important ingredient for success that gets ignored in a lot of the information out there.

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