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September 08, 2006

Going Solo: A Few Words Of Advice

I have a new post at the FreshBooks blog:

[from Going Solo: A Few Words Of Advice]

I am often asked about being a soloist: an independent consultant. “How do you find work?” “Is it difficult to balance all the things you need to do?” “How do you market your services?” I thought I would try to scribble some thoughts that might help would-be soloists in taking the plunge — or avoiding this sort of life altogether.

I may be an edge case, in that I am an unusual sort of independent, but I bet there are some general lessons to be learned in here, somewhere.

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