The Remote Solopreneur – Tips for Productivity & Success

Working for yourself is rarely easy. However, according to this Ted Talk by Joshua Lisec, 50% of millennials want to be their own boss. With the number of college graduates doing jobs that don’t require a college degree – going up every year to 41% in 2020, investing in your own business may seem like a legitimate alternative to investing in a business degree, for example.

Remote solopreneur

As a graduate, starting your own business can be an attractive proposition too. If you don’t want to be another young graduate with a Master’s degree that costs tens of thousands, going to work every day to a job that pays $10 per hour, then starting a business can help you control your career.…

Continue reading

3 Top Tips to Help Contractors and Freelancers Succeed

By 2020 it’s expected that one in two UK and US citizens will be working on a freelance basis. The competition for work among freelancers and startups is increasing by the day.

Freelancer working with laptop

And if trends during the last economic downturn are anything to go by and the UK’s exit from the EU does bring about an economic lull, it is likely that we’ll see an even more rapid increase in freelancers.

Now more than ever the solopreneur and independent contractor has to have an edge. Part of this will come from doing grinding administrative work as efficiently as possible.

Here are three top tips to ensure you succeed:

1.

Continue reading