Book Titles

The Self-Employment Survival Guide
Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss

By Jeanne Yocum

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1538108710
Categories: Self-employment, Strategy, Survival

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Whatever your core talents are, they should be the centerpiece of your new business.

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

[Values] are the rules you live by in conducting your business.

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In every successful small business owner’s life, there is someone who has reached out a helping hand at a critical moment… they are the people who truly have helped us achieve success.

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Self-employment is tough stuff in the best of times. And in the worst of times… you need grit, ingenuity, and a solid support system to make it through.

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Without a good diversity of customers, it is all too easy for a business to be totally rocked by just one or two customer defections.

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Clients who expect you to turn projects around in an unreasonable time frame are more the norm than a rarity.

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Do not hesitate to fire a client who repeatedly oversteps boundaries. Any client who regularly commits… sins… is not worth the distress they’re putting you through

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Don’t risk becoming a doormat for anyone – this can ruin your self-confidence and your ability to negotiate the types of deals you really deserve.

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Perhaps the worst thing that can happen when you continue to work for people who don’t respect you and your skills is that you can begin to doubt your own abilities…

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide:

Time management, like stress, can be challenging when you’re too busy, and, oddly, when you’re not busy enough.

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