Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches
If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business. Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. Maybe even get a real office with a water cooler. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Write a Business Plan#section1 The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. Beyond the mental exercises, a good business plan will give you a much better chance of getting a small business loan from a bank than walking in and saying, “I like Photoshop and maybe a can do some websites or something. Funding#section3 Good:
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Eight Questions To Ask Before You Start A Business
Are you thinking of starting a web business? Starting a PPC Management agency? Setting up your own site and selling things, or building a web publishing empire? Before you start, ask yourself the following eight questions. 1 . Define what service the business provides. Try to focus. McDonalds could, no doubt, provide up-market meals, but they focus on selling quick, cheap food. That is what they do. 2. Who are your customers? Create a mental image of your typical customer. 3. What is your unique selling proposition? If your customers can buy the same services for less elsewhere, or more easily, they will. There is a tendency to model yourself on others. This is not to say doing something wildly new or different is any guarantee of success. 4. This point is so important, it really should be number one. Businesses may have great ideas. Then the bank manager calls. The overdraft has hit its limit and you can’t meet payroll this week. There is no fooling cashflow. 5. 6. 7. Set company goals. 8.
All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
May 24, 2011: May 24, 2011: [Follow Me on Twitter] “ Don’t you know that you are a shooting star,And all the world will love you just as long,As long as you are. With the IPO market now blown wide-open, and the media completely infatuated with frothy trades in the bubbly late stage private market, it is common to see articles that reference both “valuation” and “revenue” and suggest that there is a correlation between the two. What drives true equity value? Because of the difficulty of getting DCF right, investors commonly use a handful of other shortcuts to determine valuations. The following chart highlights 2012 forward price/revenue ratios for 122 global Internet stocks. Before we talk about why there is such disparity, it is important to highlight a few more points. What causes such a wide dispersion of price/revenue multiples? 1. By far, the most critical characteristic that separates high multiple companies from low multiple companies is competitive advantage. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
How to get a job: what's missing from resumes I'm reviewing Update X2
Getting the eye of the recruiter with the right resume is a must. How to do it? My recent experience might help, and I'll try to compile a few suggestions here. (Caveat: I'm writing in the first person even though it makes me seem bossy--third person was too passive, so here goes.) First, don't tell me about you. Especially pay attention to this if you are changing fields or industry sectors. A hint: one resume that immediately got to the top of the pile came with a cover letter that took points from the job description, described how their skills would be applicable and what projects they've worked on that were relevant. Second, if you are going to write a summary, tell me something unusual about yourself. Third, don't forget to list specific skills. Fourth, and this may seem petty, but if you are sending a resume or cover letter via email, NAME THE FILE(s) WITH YOUR NAME. Hope I've not offended anyone by anything I wrote. Update. Update number 2. Update 3.
15 Places To Download Free High Quality Stock Photos
There are many free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could. I found 15 good, solid resources out there. Today I am going to share 15 websites where you can download free stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop or simply an illustration for your blog. Free stock nature photography. This site is a community for travel photographers. This is a huge resource of over3 million photos! This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Stockvault is a very classy, modern site with thousands of images and some Photoshop tutorials. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos. All the photos are free to use. Openphoto is a site of free photos by categories, and offers a search function as well. You can get 2,000 free stock photos from 10 categories. Related Posts:
Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011
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45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts
One of the trends in creating site designs are in Hand Drawn Concept. It gives a playful and fresh feeling to the design that appeals to the audience. Talking about Hand Drawn Design, using a Hand Drawn Fonts is mostly a must to match the design. If you want more of these, we have collected useful freebies for you to check out and download for free. FFF Tusj Grutch Shadedw Pointy Sketch Rockwell Jamaistevie Childs Play Pee Pants Script Mia’s Scribblings HandVetica Fh Scribble Fh Ink Positiv-A Aguzlo Handwerk HansHand Marker Twins Julies Mellyboo Font Handwriting Toms Handwritten Pen of Truth Sketchy Sketchbook Teenage angst Tire Shop Demo Version Waste Of Time 123 and… Barnes Erc Un-finished Jump Start My Turtle WC RoughTrad Bta Against Myself Peixe Frito Thurston Erc Roughage Gribouille Fail Octember Script Karabine Tiza Love Ya Like A Sister Rock Show Whiplash McCoy – Hello Lori Clementine Sketch Oh Ashy Make sure to check out more of the free fonts in the related posts below!
