What are your top tips for setting yourself up as a freelance workshopper?

Jan '23 in General discussion & questions

One of the great things about what we do is you can do it as an employee or go out and become your own company. Whilst the later comes with amazing benefits there are a lot of areas that need to be considers… Like

What does it take to set myself up as a business or do I just contract in.
If I am setting myself up as a business am I a sole trader.. registering by business
Defining your purpose and setting clear goals yearly, quarterly
Defining your target customers, products, services and financials. Whilst this is a passion space for a lot of us, you still need to understand your revenue needs.
Branding and marketing
What do you need to set yourself up… physically, technology
Contracts for engagements
How to build a pipeline, managing you customer base

Making sure you get work life balance!

Would be interested in hearing and learning from each other on what made sense for you and what you would like to share with the rest of the community…

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