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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Managing Taxes in the Gig Economy
The gig economy can be a wonderful way to supplement your income while you’re building a new business. One of the benefits of Uber, Lyft, Shipt, Instacart, Doordash, Postmates or the host of other independent contract platforms is that...