Negotiate in the other person’s seat

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…

A profitable freelance business is most effective when it has efficient repeatable systems. As a freelancer, you have to: Whenever you see an activity arise that you need to repeat, it can be delivered more effectively by using a system to make it easily replicable and potentially outsourceable. Capture each activity as a flowchart and…

You’ve got to believe in what you are doing 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…

Some of the elements you need for business success

Survival and then success is a combination of knowing and doing. You are going to need to keep knowing and keep doing to survive and succeed. Which means you need to keep knowing and keep doing. No matter your workload, ensure you keep learning. If you are not working, you’ve time to learn but keep…

Follow what interests you to develop. Be obsessed with what interests you to develop mastery.