If you don’t believe in what you are doing you won’t be able to sell it. Not to your team, not to your backers, not to your clients.
You have to believe to sell it to yourself, otherwise that lack of commitment will be evident in your attitude and ability to sell.
Always be willing to try and fail Failure is where learning, growth and eventual greatness lies. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while!
A roadmap is useful if you are just going to copy the path of someone else. Do you want to constrain yourself to the limits of someone else?
Be a ‘specific’ not a ‘generality’ in customer’s eyes As a freelance coder, carving out a niche for yourself can be a game-changer. It’s probably the intersection of your passion, expertise, and market demand that offers an. Specialization isn’t about limiting your potential.It is about honing it.When you specialize, you become the ‘go-to’ expert in…
Negotiate from the understanding of what your ‘opponent’ wants. Knowing what the opponent wants will allow you to manoeuvre around the negotiation landscape and find a ‘Win-Win‘ outcome. The easiest way to find out what your opponent wants is to ask…Write is down in a shared area like a whiteboard and then work towards that…
Don’t go hunting until you’ve got the ammunition loaded When you go out to hunt you need your camouflage and your ammunition ready. When you go out to freelance you need your presentation and professional skills to also be ready. That doesn’t mean you are the best shot, but you have to be competent and…
You don’t necessarily have to have the best idea to succeed Look at how many businesses there are that are similar. There are lots of supermarkets and small shops…Many are successful. There are thousands of successful apps in the app store. It doesn’t need to be the best idea…The competition shows that this is a…
