Premise: Must get the business I want in 2.5 hours/day/less. 2.5 hours/day marketing 2.5 hours/day managing = 20 hours week. Goal: $25,000/monthly revenue, I keep 40% = $10,000….I get that done and scaled, and we go from there.
This means each week, I bill 25k/4.3 (weeks/month) = $5813.49. That’s solid stuff, good numbers. I need to consider some things:
[a] must average something in the realm of $2500/gig so I’m only at ~10ish gigs/month. This is up from current average of ~$1700. Less/fewer writing gigs (time, velocity). More of what? Develp big ticket type items? Make a web presence? Be a jack of all trades?
[b] iterated projects: I want simple stuff: build a blog, design a campaign, write some Aweber responders. I don’t want ‘make some sort of database that clients can access + loginto.’ Good developers hate that stuff.
[c] set a revision schedule upfront: spec–>revision (planned)–>tweak—>final.
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OK, that said, that’s doable. And I can figure out work quickly. I need to also find more people that can do stuff, but the problem is, I can’t guarantee work right now, and it’s all on an ad hoc basis.
I think that I need to stop implementing; good paying work keeps me from selling, selling is the only thing that gets me leverage. Leverage is the only thing that makes this work @ 20/week.
5 new (minimum)
5 existing (minimum)
5 misc (wherever the flow is) This should not take that long at all, really.
[2] linked in questions: 20/month religiously.
[3] Linked in connections: Try to get 10/week w/depth, where depth = ppl. that will hear what I have to say, etc, etc, etc.
[4] blog posts: blog here and blog elsewhere to gett talent. Blogging around the freelance blogs should be done regularly to get freelancers to register.
[5] email messages & campaign built for aweber.
[6] Do I participate in any boards/rfqs? I don’t think so. I stil hate odesk (elance is somewhat better, but the douchebagifiying of the freelance market is why I’m here).
[7] Project log: what I’ve completed, and make it run in the company blog.
-deadline
-requirements
-date started
-date finsihed
-testimonial.
[8] authority site on small fast projects.
I need a way to make money on bigger projects, but I think I’m going to skip it, and leave that in the freelancer agreement.
Do I do PPC? (No for now)
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