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Smalltopia: A practical guide to working for yourself
Smalltopia: A Practical Guide to Working for Yourself is full of tips, tools, and strategies to help you create personal freedom through a very small business. Smalltopia is broken up into three sections: Philosophy, Business Essentials, and Case Studies. The ebook tells my personal story of escaping the rat race and the lessons I learned along the way.
What’s Included:
Tips, tools, and strategies that will help you build a sustainable small business.
Stories from more than a dozen small business owners. The list of rockstar contributors include: Leo Babauta, Chris Guillebeau, Jessica Reeder, Chris O’Byrne, Russ Roca, Laura Crawford, Karol Gajda, Chloe Adeline, Victoria Vargas, Karen Yaeger, Jules Clancy, Heather Levin, Matt Cheuvront, and Tyler Tervooren.
More than 50 micro-actions to help get you started.
150 pages and over 24,000 words of written content.
Free updates for 1 year.
What’s Included:
Tips, tools, and strategies that will help you build a sustainable small business.
Stories from more than a dozen small business owners. The list of rockstar contributors include: Leo Babauta, Chris Guillebeau, Jessica Reeder, Chris O’Byrne, Russ Roca, Laura Crawford, Karol Gajda, Chloe Adeline, Victoria Vargas, Karen Yaeger, Jules Clancy, Heather Levin, Matt Cheuvront, and Tyler Tervooren.
More than 50 micro-actions to help get you started.
150 pages and over 24,000 words of written content.
Free updates for 1 year.
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156 pages, ebook
First published August 31, 2010
87 people want to read
About the author
Tammy Strobel
14 books127 followersHi! I’m Tammy Strobel. I'm a writer, photographer, and cat lover.
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April 2, 2011
I've read a bunch of stuff on this topic, but this one still had some interesting insights for me. It's more philosophical than most books about lifestyle design/self employment, and it has a lot of really good microactions to take.
Notes:
- Learn to say no--even more essential when self-employed
- Get enough sleep! (How many times do I have to tell you???)
- Read The One Page Business Plan and Tim Berry's The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan. (both books)
- Who is my ideal client? Who would I love to work with every day?--get specific.
- Slow down to foster your creativity.
- Test your product to find out if anyone will buy it--blog posts, surveys, etc.
- Check out Freelance switch (freelanceswitch.com) and NASE (Nat'l Assoc for Self-Employed)
- "regularly looking at your own progress and asking hard questions is vital... What can you do better today than yesterday? Where do you make money?" Find out what's working and throw yourself at that.
-Look up Jessica Reeder of Love and Trash -- super cool
- Create free 10-day email course on one mini-topic. Create it once and you'll always have it to use.
-"Remember that if you want to quit your day job someday, you're going to have to actually quit your day job some day. Prepare yourself for that."
- Learning from your failures is useful but not scalable. Do that, but more importantly, learn from your successes. Build on what works.
- Just because you start something, doesn't mean you have to finish it.
- "If you provide a unique product or service that's incredibly valuable to the people it serves, then you'll be able to sell it." (Well, yeah.)
- Listen to yourself first.
- Check out Publishing Your World -- help writers write, publish, and make money from short, nonfiction books.
Notes:
- Learn to say no--even more essential when self-employed
- Get enough sleep! (How many times do I have to tell you???)
- Read The One Page Business Plan and Tim Berry's The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan. (both books)
- Who is my ideal client? Who would I love to work with every day?--get specific.
- Slow down to foster your creativity.
- Test your product to find out if anyone will buy it--blog posts, surveys, etc.
- Check out Freelance switch (freelanceswitch.com) and NASE (Nat'l Assoc for Self-Employed)
- "regularly looking at your own progress and asking hard questions is vital... What can you do better today than yesterday? Where do you make money?" Find out what's working and throw yourself at that.
-Look up Jessica Reeder of Love and Trash -- super cool
- Create free 10-day email course on one mini-topic. Create it once and you'll always have it to use.
-"Remember that if you want to quit your day job someday, you're going to have to actually quit your day job some day. Prepare yourself for that."
- Learning from your failures is useful but not scalable. Do that, but more importantly, learn from your successes. Build on what works.
- Just because you start something, doesn't mean you have to finish it.
- "If you provide a unique product or service that's incredibly valuable to the people it serves, then you'll be able to sell it." (Well, yeah.)
- Listen to yourself first.
- Check out Publishing Your World -- help writers write, publish, and make money from short, nonfiction books.
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