1. How To Market Seminars
If you've been thinking it's time to get out of your comfort zone and go belly-to-belly with your prospects or clients, then you may be interested in this. You'll give up your email address for the free guide, so I thought I'd let you know that up front.
It's a quick read and may be something that you want to add to your nap-sack for future reference. Like anything else you do as a solo entrepreneur, preparation is the key to effectively marketing a seminar. Site owner is Jenny Hamby, author of How to Successfully Market Seminars and Workshops.
2. Guy Kawasaki has a great post this week - 9 Biggest Myths of the Workplace
I read other people's blogs (so do you, don't lie) and decided to drop in to see what Guy has been up to lately. This post will be a good reality check for those of you wishful thinking about the good old days of employee-hood. Take a look because I can guarantee, you'll do whatever it takes to grow your solo business.
Speaking of Blogs........
Are you also doing any freelance work? Freelance Switch maybe a resource you can use instead of Guru or E-Lance.
This blog is promoted as a community of freelancers and a resource site for freelancers of all persuasions. Content is provided by other freelancers and it does appear to be heading in the right direction.
If you do any freelancing or considering going this route as a solo, see if this works better for how you want to work. It seems to be a good place to meet your freelance colleagues too.
Unique Banking Idea - Prosper
Banks won't give you a loan unless you're in debt up to your eyeballs or willing to give away a body part? Everybody you know run the other way because you have that look in your eye - entrepreneur needs money? Here's a possible alternative to begging.
Prosper has a unique business model that if it works as planned, could be ideal for the solo entrepreneur. This is how it appears to work:
1. People who need money request how much they are seeking and at what interest rate.
2. Other people in the network bid for the privilege of lending them the money at a fair interest rate, which may not be as high as the one requested.
3. Prosper then steps in and acts as the 'go-between' to make sure everything is safe, fair and easy.
It may not be a simple as this but if you're in that 'feast or famine' cycle of your business, it wouldn't hurt to take a look. Especially if your 'small business friendly' bank - isn't friendly to your small business.
That's it for now and I leave you with this:
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.- Tom Peters
