Food Writer
for the first time in over 14 years of freelance writing, I feel like I finally GET IT!
I am going to open a small retail store soon and to that end took an entreprenuerial development class form the Small business development center. the teacher hammers home that each new business must have a business plan. And I mean a 30 page business plan, including financial projections, advertising, marketing, payroll, sales goals etc.
three days ago I was just sitting around and I had a flash that if treated my writing business like a BIZ I might make more money. Instead of sitting around waiting for inspiration and editors to knock on my door, I need a reading schedule, a cooking day each week, and I also need to look at the income I need/want to make and plot a way to make those sales. It's already working - for starters I dumped the jobs that pay me less than $50 an hour, and got back to networking with other writers.
How many of you plan out your work, your marketing and your expected/desired income and then follow through?
(the follow through part is always my biggest challenge.)
Pam
I am going to open a small retail store soon and to that end took an entreprenuerial development class form the Small business development center. the teacher hammers home that each new business must have a business plan. And I mean a 30 page business plan, including financial projections, advertising, marketing, payroll, sales goals etc.
three days ago I was just sitting around and I had a flash that if treated my writing business like a BIZ I might make more money. Instead of sitting around waiting for inspiration and editors to knock on my door, I need a reading schedule, a cooking day each week, and I also need to look at the income I need/want to make and plot a way to make those sales. It's already working - for starters I dumped the jobs that pay me less than $50 an hour, and got back to networking with other writers.
How many of you plan out your work, your marketing and your expected/desired income and then follow through?
(the follow through part is always my biggest challenge.)
Pam