40 Steps for your Business
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- -kappa-
Step 1 - figure out your business - (freelancer, partnership, small team, big agency, company)
Step 2 - Limit your services - Every possible service but says you should really focus
Step 3 - find a business role model - their role model is Starbucks
Step 4 - don't be a flake - make sure you appear correct to your business clients
Step 5 - write a manual for the magic
Step 6 - don't trust your brain
Step 7 - don't let your clients follow-up with you - you should contact them before they need to contact you
Step 8 - don't let your colleagues follow up - see Step 7
Step 9 - get addicted to strangers - talk to people you don't know to help you grow
Step 10 - always be teaching - "tutorial marketing" helps to prove you know what you are talking about
Step 11 - beware of perfection
Step 12 - never trust a big butt and a smile
Step 13 - cheap is sexy - cash flow is critical to your business
Step 14 - you didn't get ripped off - we didn't get ripped off, we let ourselves get ripped off
Step 15 - be firm with your clients - they actually like this
Step 16 - if we settle for nothing now - we will settle for nothing later - i.e. don't do "spec" work
Step 17 - make it their idea
Step 18 - don't bill hourly
Step 19 - track your time
Step 20 - honour your commitments
Step 21 - be serious about scope - shows the project cartoon
Step 22 - study project physics
Step 23 - never deliver crap
Step 24 - never work anonymously
Step 25 - use the right tools
Step 26 - be different
Step 27 - write your company constitution
Step 28 - prioritize passion
Step 29 - do a good job
Step 30 - always do what's right
Step 31 - plan for the future
Step 32 - plan your work and work your plan
Step 33 - put employees first
Step 34 - invest every dollar
Step 35 - treat your clients like you love them
Step 36 - use solid contracts
Step 37 - embrace uncertainty
Step 38 - play
Step 39 - take holidays
Step 40 - go that way, really fast
- -kappa-0
Not mine - just thought I'd pass them on...
- pango0
nice! let me try to find some stone plates and carve it down.
- doesnotexist0
that is epic
- Antonelli0
it reminds me of that one song...
- OSFA0
you mean this one?
Artist: Notorious B.I.G.
Album: Life After Death
Song: Ten Crack Commandments(Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"
Uhh, it's the ten crack commandments
What, uhh, uhh
Nigga can't tell me nothin bout this coke, uh-huh
Can't tell me nothin bout this crack, this weed
To my hustlin niggaz
Niggaz on the corner I ain't forget you niggaz
My triple beam niggaz, word up(Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"
"TEN"I been in this game for years, it made me a animal
It's rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual
A step by step booklet for you to get
your game on track, not your wig pushed back
Rule nombre uno: never let no one know
how much, dough you hold, cause you know
The cheddar breed jealousy 'specially
if that man fucked up, get your ass stuck up
Number two: never let em know your next move
Don't you know Bad Boys move in silence or violence
Take it from your highness (uh-huh)
I done squeezed mad clips at these cats for they bricks and chips
Number three: never trust no-bo-dy
Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodie to mask up, shit, for that fast buck
she be layin in the bushes to light that ass up
Number four: know you heard this before
Never get high, on your own supply
Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at
I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce
Number six: that god damn credit, dead it
You think a crackhead payin you back, shit forget it
Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely seperated
Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch
Find yourself in serious shit
Number eight: never keep no weight on you
Them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jobs too
Number nine shoulda been number one to me
If you ain't gettin bags stay the fuck from police (uh-huh)
If niggaz think you snitchin ain't tryin listen
They be sittin in your kitchen, waitin to start hittin
Number ten: a strong word called consignment
Strictly for live men, not for freshmen
If you ain't got the clientele say hell no
Cause they gon want they money rain sleet hail snow
Follow these rules you'll have mad bread to break up
If not, twenty-four years, on the wake up
Slug hit your temple, watch your frame shake up
Caretaker did your makeup, when you pass
Your girl fucked my man Jake up, heard in three weeks
she sniffed a whole half of cake up
Heard she suck a good dick, and can hook a steak up
Gotta go gotta go, more pies to bake up, word up, uhhCrack king, Frank Blizzard
Uhh(Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"
"Ten"- nope, but thanks for the effort. http://www.youtube.c…Antonelli
- akrokdesign0
step 41: bill 50% deposit. (1th time client)
step 42: make sure they pay one time. dont let them flake.