Starting A Home Business?
Your Weekly Newsletter on Small Business Systems + Tools — Issue #009
Hello to everyone. This is Takis Athanassiou with a new issue of the ST4SB Newsletter. Today's focus is home business or how to develop a new side-income to support you in these troubled times.
The point is that we are, again, in transition! Transition in our personal values, code of contacts, health plans or in our work. And the transition is not just a local economy matter. It is a worldwide one!
Many of us, we are with no “official sanctioned” works since in small business does not only need to have clients, you need to have clients who pay for what you are doing for them. And that it is a tricky part since many people and entrepreneurs are worry about the future and imposed a “strict” budget policy.
Focus: Where the Transition Lead Us?
As the things are in Europe (and from whatever I am learning in the USA too) many working habits have changed!
Remote working and home-based business start emerging as mainstream working practices, while disruptive patterns (like health sanitization, face masks, etc.) start to change our living environment.
All these trends signify a transitional phase towards a new configuration of society and market. A one that seems to enhance the culture of multiple income streaming instead of the one salary and the remote working versus the locational-defined work seats.
So we need innovation, better market fitted ideas and new approaches to make an income today. And we need to make if from home, a place traditionally associated with rest, tranquility and family activities (not a place for work).
Meet The Founders: Ellory Wells
Ellory Wells is a blogger and business consultant helping entrepreneurs and teaching them how to start, build, and grow their businesses!
He started at the corporate world, but he moved to a private practice using his skills, knowledge and talents to the service of people want to develop a business and make a difference.
Check his story here and tell me what sounds like?
The Best Ideas Around
Today I'd like to introduce to you one of the best coaches around, Michael Bungay Stanier.
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and CEO of Box of Crayons (one of the leading companies in consulting, training and coaching areas), award-winning coach and top-notch author. He’s the author of several books, including the Do More Great Workand the Get Unstuck & Get Going…on the stuff that matters. Michael has written for or been featured in numerous publications including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe & Mail, and The Huffington Post.
Michael’s most recent book, The Coaching Habit, has sold more than 500,000 copies and has been the #1 coaching book on Amazon since its release.
Listen to this podcast to learn more about the thoughts and approaches of Michael in business, coaching and productivity.
Motivation + Inspiration
One of the things I am thinking a lot lately is the following:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Tell me, how do you relate to this? Are you consider yourself a doer or not? What is your opinion about the people today try to make a difference?
Tools + Systems Of The Trade
Do you read a lot? Do you find yourself of consuming too many books but you have problems in finding a way of keeping your notes about them for future reference?
If your consider books as an investment to your personal growth you need reliable systems to help you make the most of your reading experience.
There are many tools can help you, but you can use:
clippings.io, allows you to make clips of all the things interested you in your Kindle or
Readwise, that helps you revisit and learn from your eBook & article highlights
to log your ideas and notes about the books you like to read!
But notes and ideas are important for a company; especially so for a solopreneur wants to make ends meet. To do it in style and efficiently you need to organize your notes in a single repository (using tools like Evernote or OneNote for instance) and device a catalog and folder/tag system to suite your needs.
Resources and Content of Value
How To Create a Brand Identity: The Ultimate Guide for Course Creators
What Angel Investors Want to Know Before Investing in Your Startup
8 things solopreneurs must do to finish the year on the right track
Required FTC Disclosures
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Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
In Case You Have Missed It
Here are some articles I have published on my site! I hope to find them useful.
Final Thoughts
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How do you work today during the COVID-19 crisis? What you would do to make your life and work more meaningful?