Editor’s note: We’re kicking off outsourcing month here at OWS! This post serves as a primer for deciding what tasks you might want to hire a pro to take on. For many of us, we start our businesses out in bootstrapping mode. You Google search. You consume blog post after blog post. You ask for…
This year, I set some pretty lofty business goals for my solo social media business. One of them: Diversify my clientele by adding corporate clients. For me, the challenge of creating community and engagement around big, faceless corporate giants is one of the most fulfilling parts of running a social media management company. But approaching…
Congratulations! You’ve made the leap to full-time solopreneurship. The first few days out on your own are exciting, scary, freeing and anxiety-inducing all at the same time. I would know. I’m currently in the midst of week three of running my own solo business after six years in a stable 9-5 corporate job. Over the…
Sales and use tax: words to make even the bravest entrepreneurs quiver in their boots — once they know about it. If this is you, that’s totally OK, it’s less a tell-tale sign of your ability as an entrepreneur and more a case of under-education on the government’s part. In fact, I’m willing to bet…
As solopreneurs, we wear many hats in our business: customer support, copywriter, salesperson, and CEO. As we bounce from field to field trying to get our tasks done, we’re often bogged down by industry jargon. And the worst part of jargon is this: We get sucked into a rabbit hole of research trying to…
There’s a lot to learn when getting started as a solopreneur. But with so many great resources that can help you, step-by-step, to start and grow your business, it should all just be easy breezy, right? Not so much. So often, when it comes to actually putting what we’ve learned into action, we just get…
