The Success Manual: Ultimate Guide to Working For Yourself
Solve problems people need solved and you'll find the money making kind of businesses very quickly.
Let's start with passion about stuff that matters.
- Anon.
The two main ways how you can work for yourself:
- Start your own company, or
- Freelance: Write for others, design for others, code for others...and all this time, doing that something extra for the others - your clients.
Structure of this book
The guides are arranged across three themes in working for yourself: Freelancing, Starting and Running a Business, and Part-time methods of making some money. There are few useful guides on 'Creating a tech startup', including my favorite chapter on making something people want.
Contents:
Part 1: Freelancing
1. 20+ Important Steps In Establishing A Freelancing Setup
2. How To Succeed As A Freelancer In This New Gig Economy
3. Making A Living As A Web Developer/Web Designer
4. The Basic Legal/Financial Stuff Freelancers Have To Know
5. How To Find Client/s When You Are Starting Out
6. Setting Your Freelance Rates
7. How To Improve Your Value As A Freelancer
8. How Smart Freelancers Get Paid On Time
9. How To Scale Your Freelance Business
10. Succeeding On Freelance Job Websites
11. The Client Flow
12. A Quick Guide Through The Contract
13. Working With Clients
14. Freelancing Troubleshooting
15. Dealing With Bad Clients.
Part 2: Starting A Business
16. Introduction To Businesses
17. Validate Yourself First
18. Have An Idea
19. Validate The Idea/Market Research
20. Create a Business Plan
21. Business Structure (and other legal stuff)
22 Focus On Cash Planning
23. Get Funding For Your Business Idea
24. Get Funding For Your Tech Business Idea
25. Bootstrapping Your Business
Part 3: Running A Business
26. Branding
27. Creating The Product/service
28. The Presence
29. How Will People Buy From You?
30. To Get More Sales
31. Time Management For Entrepreneurs
32. Keep Track Of All Your Costs
33. Set Good Business Terms
34. Try Not To Run Out Of Cash
35. Doing Business With The Right Customers
36. Doing Business With The Right Suppliers
37. Taxes
38. Recruiting People
39. Keeping Your People/team Happy
40. Delegating And Getting More Work Done
41. Strategic Thinking
42. How To Motivate Yourself
43. How To Motivate Your Employees
44. Handling 13 Common Employee Problems
45. Getting Outside Help
46. Shutting Shop
47. Selling Your Business
Part 4: Creating A Tech Startup
48. How To Make Something People Want
49. How To Make A Successful Mobile App
50. How To Validate Your Product Idea
51. Don't Build A Startup, Build A Business Instead
52. Seven More Strategies To Get More Online Users/buyers
53. Running A Single-person Startup
54. Create A Long-lasting Startup
Part 5: Making A Part-Time Living
55. The Big List Of Things You Can Do To Make A Part-Time Living
56. Offline Methods Of Making Some Money
57. Online Methods (Or A Mix Of Both Methods) Of Making Some Money
58. Making A Living From Writing
59. Making Money From Videos
60. Making Money Selling Software, Software As A Service (SaaS)
61. Making Money From Selling Stuff Online
62. Selling On Ebay
63. Other Options
As with other books in The Success Manual series of guides (Please check out thesuccessmanual.in), the advice is easy to follow, and I suggest you keep the pdf in your phone/tablet with you.
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