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Crafting A Business Plan, For Freelancers
So, you want to start a freelance business. Or, you’ve started one, and you want to formalise or clarify your offering in your mind. It’s business plan time.
They aren’t just for the biggies; for the entrepreneurs aiming to sell 100,000 units of personalised coffee mugs during Q4. They’re a useful way to turn your [...]
The Importance Of A Business Plan
If 2012 is the year you plan to start your own business, best be sure you have a good business plan in place before you get started. A comprehensive business plan can mean the difference between seeing your new business flourish and having it fail before it’s even really started.
A business plan has two core [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Use blogging to force your learning curve
As an entrepreneur you always need to learn. The process of learning is all about consuming data and organising it in some way that it can be useful. Here are two tips to better learning using social media:
Tip #1: Think it through
I started using blogging as a place to think through my ideas and [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Talk about success
In order to secure business, people need to trust you and there are two main ways to help this along.
The first is through personal recommendation and relationship – they know you, they know what you’re about and trust is a result of your personal relationship.
The second way is for the client to make up their [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Using e-mail to connect with potential clients
E-mail newsletters are still well-used by the majority of South Africans and the biggest benefit to using it is that it’s an understood medium of communication. The second-biggest benefit? It’s a great way to connect with potential clients and keep up regular communication without too much effort or time spent in meetings.
Remember that your decision [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Using Facebook to recruit your cheerleading team
Entrepreneurship can be lonely. But keeping Facebook up-to-date with your personal and business news can build a group of people online who are happy (and in fact very interested) in supporting you and your business because they feel connected to you. And with over 300 million people on Facebook, there’s very little reason to be [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Using Twitter to book meetings
People often ask how Twitter can be beneficial in business. I answer this by asking how golf days are good for business.
Golf days are all about networking and meeting new people who could be potential business partners. The access to high profile people is key. It’s important not to seem over-eager, whilst still remaining focused [...]
Business Plan 101: Business Analysis
When you go to a game at a stadium it is normal now to see both sides on the field in their warm up togs before the game. What are they doing? Why come out to the field to warm up when they have gyms and protected change rooms? The answer is simple; they are [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Connecting with potential business partners
I work with TomorrowToday – a consultancy of international thought leaders in the areas of leadership, talent and generation theory – and I managed to secure a meeting with their leadership expert, Keith Coats, in the hope that I could gain some insight into how I could structure my consultancy.
The meeting went a completely different [...]
Business Plan 101: In the Beginning
In the beginning your business plan needs to knock the socks off the reader in the very first few pages. These pages are critical to the delivery of the rest of the plan. So what goes into these pages you ask? Lets break them down for you to be used for future reference.
Index page
Learn how [...]
