Site looks nice!
One thing wasn’t clear was how to employ someone overseas, just states to pay via PayPal / Wise. Is that acceptable in the Philippines? And how do you ensure talent doesn’t leave after short period of time? If they do, so do you help replace at lower cost?
Site looks nice!
One thing wasn’t clear was how to employ someone overseas, just states to pay via PayPal / Wise. Is that acceptable in the Philippines? And how do you ensure talent doesn’t leave after short period of time? If they do, so do you help replace at lower cost?
Love hearing your story! What’s your plan to grow in 2024?
Knowledge. Contacts. Low risk (they can easily get another job with a consulting company if it doesn’t work out)
Knowledge. Contacts. Low risk (they can easily get another job with a consulting company if it doesn’t work out)
Have been doing this for a while. Corporate job and doing real estate on the side - mainly buy/fix/rent/maintain. Rentals are relatively passive management and when I need something fixed I have my list of dependable contractors.
Working on starting up a business consulting firm now, but more prep and networking vs doing work yet - plan to transition full time next year.
Have been doing this for a while. Corporate job and doing real estate on the side - mainly buy/fix/rent/maintain. Rentals are relatively passive management and when I need something fixed I have my list of dependable contractors.
Working on starting up a business consulting firm now, but more prep and networking vs doing work yet - plan to transition full time next year.
All notifications are off on my phone, Outlook, teams, etc.
Also, Monday mornings, starting my week of focusing a couple of hours of the key items I need to get done for the week and Fridays closing out the week I focus on the mundane admin work to close out the week
All notifications are off on my phone, Outlook, teams, etc.
Also, Monday mornings, starting my week of focusing a couple of hours of the key items I need to get done for the week and Fridays closing out the week I focus on the mundane admin work to close out the week
Any recos for business consulting startups?
Any recos for business consulting startups?
I’ve been using Ooma for personal and business, have been happy with them!
I’ve been using Ooma for personal and business, have been happy with them!
What type of consultancy are you providing? Large-scale / long-term contracts? Or smaller / shorter term? Who is your target decision maker?
If you are targeting larger contracts, these are long-lead time sales channels that are heavily relationship based with senior decision makers - start with who you know, understanding their problems, and how you can help. Don’t sell, but help. Get one toe in the door.
If it is smaller scale / shorter term work, still need to have the contacts but they can be more mid-management decision makers. With that, need to get more volume as sales cycle can be shorter, but less certain.
Whomever is buying your service, needs it to fix a problem or exploit an opportunity - how can you help??
As for mass emails / LinkedIn messages - personally I feel this has become saturated. Give it a shot, but maybe use a service vs. hiring an employee so you can test it out.
Great question! I am not familiar, but have paid on one of the gig sites $20 (believe it was Fiver) to generate a bunch of data we needed and worked out well.
The payment processor is the middle man between you, your customer, and the bank/credit card companies.
They take a cut to process the transactions (share it with the CC companies as well) and clearing real-time across the bank networks (if you ever charge something at a major retailer on your CC and look at your CC in 15min, you will see that ‘pending’ transaction).
You can find cheaper processing. Most most banks will enable you to take credit cards as long as you have a business banking account with them, which will be cheaper than going with Strip, but have less features. Just search around.
Its the cost of doing business and you want to ensure that this is setup well. As a customer, I do not like paying via ACH, as once the $$ is gone very hard to get back.
Agree with above comments, maybe reframe the question to what you want to achieve by when, then ask who/how/how much $.
Also consider bringing on a hands on partner for equity vs driving solo with expensive resources.
From my experience, main driver has been that a few bad actors exploited it and our company lost trust in the model and now wants to see people in office doing work.
Impressive, especially for an 18yo these days! Be proud and keep going!!
Did you document your journey? What tools, etc you used? Would love to share with my 16yo
Unfortunately cant access without the ChatGPT Plus plan, which is on waitlist right now…