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8 Tips for the Work From Home Solopreneur
You’ve plunged into starting a solo business venture from home. Being a solopreneur is a fantastic experience for motivated individuals, but it can easily become stagnant if you aren’t careful. When everything starts piling up, you can lose sight of what drew you to your passion project in the first place, and your tools of...
10 Common Traits of an Entrepreneur
Many people dream of being an entrepreneur. They envision their business as majorly successful; allowing them to make enormous wealth, be the boss, have the freedom to come and go as they please and work how and when they want. If only this were the reality, everyone would be an entrepreneur! Unfortunately, this is not the...
How to Channel Your Skills and Find Your Best Side Hustle
Are you ready to test the waters of entrepreneurship? Start with a side hustle. Having a side hustle gives you security, reassurance, diversity of income, and most importantly, it gives you the possibility for something more than just the mindless 9 to 5. Since a side hustle is really a business at it’s core, I’m going...
The Benefits of Keeping Tax Records All Year Round
Although we think of tax season as that period between January 1 and mid-April, it’s an ongoing event. If you shift your perspective when it comes to tax records, you may find that not only is Tax Day less stressful, but so too are estimated tax deadlines throughout the year. Furthermore, you’ll have a better sense...
The Power of Being an Entrepreneur Without a Paycheck
If you have small or nonexistent income, you are probably a new entrepreneur still in shock over the loss of your paycheck, or your business has launched but is in lean times. Or, perhaps you’ve established your idea but need to tighten up to grow. You are not alone, as most entrepreneurs have been here. Independent...
Tips to Turn Your Solopreneur Venture Into a Real Money Maker
You’ve got an idea that will make you millions, right? Or, maybe you just want to make a little extra money on the side doing something you enjoy. Whatever your solopreneur goal is, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that anyone can make it these days with hard work and...
What Do Freelancers Need to Know About Incorporating?
In 2018, a survey from Upwork in partnership with the Freelancers Union revealed the state of freelancing in the United States. Given the continual rise of freelance work, it wasn’t completely shocking to see that the future of freelance is increasingly on the up and up. Last year, 56.7 million Americans were freelance workers, a...
A Transformative Way Solopreneurs Can Build a Thriving Business
I have good news and bad news, solopreneurs. First, the bad news: Ninety percent of a buyer’s journey may be complete before they ever contact you. The good news? You can position yourself as a go-to expert with an online networking tool like LinkedIn and a step-by-step method. Then you become the obvious choice when buyers are ready to...
Do I Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance If I’m Self-Employed?
Workers' compensation insurance: the three words that give many employers a sudden anxiety attack. There are plenty of things to worry about beyond just the costly nature of this mandatory insurance coverage, including compliance, audits, independent contractors, claims management, safety committees, and the list goes on. The question arises, what about those business owners who chose...
Building Community While Creating Your Company: The Value of Social Networks to Solopreneurs
In order to learn more about the entrepreneurial experience, The Office Providers conducted a survey of solopreneurs, with the intent of learning about their startup experience. After analyzing the results of the study, we dove further into one of the questions we asked of the survey respondents to assist those just starting up: “What would...
Don’t Burn the Midnight Oil: 4 Strategies for Balancing Life and Startup Success
I’ll never forget Steve Jobs’ speech when he introduced the iPhone and iTunes App Store to the world. It inspired me to dive headfirst into mobile app design and development, working 24/7 to learn everything I could about this new ecosystem. It wasn’t easy! As a solopreneur, I had to do everything myself, and it slowed things...
Clockwork Author Mike Michalowicz on Designing Your Business to Run Itself
For many, August is a time to kick back and relax before summer ends and schedules ramp up for the fall. But for entrepreneurs, unplugging from business and truly relaxing can be a challenge, because they worry that the business can’t run without them. Serial entrepreneur and author Mike Michalowicz knows this feeling all too...
Here’s Your Roadmap to Success as a Solopreneur
Oftentimes, the stereotype of the solopreneur is like that of the starving artist. You’re eking out a living, existing on ramen and chips. Sounds familiar, right? You’re interested in making an impact now—otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this. Take advantage of your unique position as a solopreneur, use the right tools, network and leverage your entrepreneurial...
This Entrepreneur Went From Running a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business to Scaling Up
The following is an adapted excerpt from "The Million-Dollar One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Live. Have the Life You Want" (Random House, 2018). When Joey Healy, 31, started his eyebrow styling business, he traveled on foot to the apartments of well-heeled Manhattanites to style their brows. While his customers had the...
What is the Best Type of Business Entity for Your Home Based Business?
Solopreneurs of the world, unite! This year, FlexJobs released “The State of the Remote Job Marketplace” report that outlined what the current remote work industry and its workers looks like. Nearly four million workers, 3.9 million to be exact, in the United States spend half of their time working from home, totaling 2.9 percent of...
Entrepreneurs vs. Solopreneurs: What Are Your Financing Options?
Working Americans choose to start a business for any number of reasons. There’s increased flexibility and independence, as well as more ambitious goals, like fulfilling a lifelong vision or dream. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, nearly 30 million Americans are small business owners as of 2017. And although those millions of Americans are...
Common Challenges to Starting (and Maintaining) a Side Hustle
Every once in a while, you might find yourself dreaming of working for yourself, either as a full-fledged entrepreneur, or by testing the waters with a side hustle. Plenty of people have second jobs, or “gigs” to generate passive or active income. In October 2016, a McKinsey survey found 20 percent to 30 percent (162...
10 Steps to Start a Side Hustle (While Working a Full-Time Job)
Never in history have we seen such rapid growth in the number of entrepreneurs who’ve begun working for themselves. From app developers, to freelance writers, business consultants, creative producers and startup founders, there’s no shortage of people willing to take calculated risks in the name of creating their own self-employed careers. And why not? Every...
The Million-Dollar One-Person Business: How to Make Great Money as a Solopreneur
Many entrepreneurs assume that the key to business success is scalability. The more people you hire and the more hours you work, the more money you’ll earn and the bigger you’ll get. But that’s not necessarily true, as a new book by business journalist, Elaine Pofeldt, shows. A former editor at Fortune Small Business, Pofeldt...
8 Things I Learned in My First Year as a Freelancer
Last year I had to unexpectedly kickstart my career as a freelance website designer. I took like a duck to water with some things, while others took a lot more figuring out, as I’d previously been working in an entirely different industry. As it’s my one-year birthday as a freelancer, I thought I’d share these top...