Overview

Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you’re considering self-employment, or you’re already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles and succeeding. You’ll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success. Working for yourself offers personal freedoms and rewards, but the road can curve or travel uphill at times. Here, Jeanne Yocum shares eight key behaviors that impede success and provides proven solutions for the various obstacles that might cross your path, including unreasonable client demands, slow payers, unexpected client defections, daily schedules, health and financial planning, and the feelings of isolation that can sometimes accompany working on your own. Unlike many books that provide only a rose-colored view of self-employment, this book gives a full, realistic view of what being your own boss is actually like. By learning about the ups and downs that come with being in charge of your own livelihood, you will be better able to handle the demands of self-employment and succeed on your own terms.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jeanne Yocum
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781538108710

ISBN 10:   1538108712
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   08 April 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Now That You Work for Yourself 1. You're the Boss Now 2. Make Working from Home Work 3. Don't Sell Yourself Short 4. Managing Your Time 5. Keeping Up With New Skills 6. Trying to Be All Things to All People 7. Becoming Overconfident 8. Core Elements of Your Success Part II: Clients and Workloads 9. Having Too Many Eggs in One Client Basket 10. When Clients Are Unreasonable 11. Fluctuating Workloads 12. Clients Who Don't Hold Up Their End of the Bargain 13. Handling Competing Client Crises 14. Sudden, Unexpected Client Defections 15. When Vendors Let You Down 16. Self-Employment Lessons I Learned from My Father Part III: Financial Expectations 17. Being Financially Self-Sufficient 18. Saving for Retirement 19. The Taxman Cometh 20. Deadbeat Clients 21. Surviving Cash Flow Ebbs 22. Six Things That Make Self-employment Worthwhile Part IV: Potential Roadblocks to Success 23. The Double Whammy of Health Issues 24. Alliances Gone Wrong 25. Avoiding Burnout 26. Falling into the Doldrums 27. Getting Discouraged 28. Feeling All Alone 29. Secondhand Stress 30. Dealing with Insecurity 31. Bonus Section: Eight Behaviors to Avoid If You're Self-employed 32. So, What's Stopping You?

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The Self-Employment Survival Guide is a needed and vibrant new resource for anyone who wants to not only survive, but thrive in the gig economy. It's a must-read for students, solopreneurs, and people age 50+ who are embarking on an entrepreneurial path of self-employment. -- Rebecca A. Corbin Ed.D, President & CEO, National Association for Community College Entrepeneurship (NACCE) Working with entrepreneurs is not an easy task. They tend to have their own way of thinking and are generally, very passionate about their venture. The Self-Employment Survival Guide by Jeanne Yocum helps to address many issues a beginning entrepreneur might have and maybe some they had not thought of yet. She has her own distinct perspective on starting, growing and maintaining a business based off her experiences in the entrepreneurial world. Her words of wisdom along with personal examples help paint a vivid picture of success for any entrepreneur. It is especially nice to see the advice is not all business related. Jeanne helps entrepreneurs understand the impact a business can have on entrepreneur's life. -- Tim Mittan, Entrepeneur Advocate & Business Coach; Author of <i>The Pocket Business Coach<i> Although one in ten Americans is self-employed, there is little practical support available this significant portion of our workforce. The work that many have done to help entrepreneurs certainly overlaps somewhat with the challenges facing the self-employed. However, there are unique issues that set the self-employed clearly apart from entrepreneurs. In The Self-Employment Survival Guide, Jeanne Yocum offers advice ranging from managing yourself, to managing your clients, to managing your workload, to managing your finances. Although self-employment may seem simple to those on the outside, there are many speedbumps, roadblocks and landmines that can cause the self-employed to stumble or even fail in their effort to make a living. This book serves as a resource that will greatly enhance the chances of success for the self-employed professional. -- Jeff Cornwall, Professor and Jack C. Massey Chair of Entrepeneurship, Belmont University The Self-Employment Survival Guide by Jeanne Yocum is a refreshingly straightforward, candid book designed to empower and inform anyone interested in starting their own business. Jeanne is a fantastic storyteller, with a genuine voice and insight based on experience. The book is nicely organized into sections that move the reader through understanding what it really means to become your own boss to managing and overcoming challenges along the startup pathway. Jeanne illustrates the key concepts presented with tales from her own entrepreneurial journey and the reader gets to know her, business warts and all. Each chapter includes `Other Voices' that share stories from a variety of entrepreneurial ventures, each highlighting their own experience. These diverse outlooks add tremendous value and unique insights. What is evident throughout the book is a genuine desire to help guide nascent entrepreneurs through sharing lessons learned and providing time saving and challenge avoidance tips. I loved the advice for new entrepreneurs to conduct business honestly, value themselves and their time properly from the start and to have not only a plan, but systems in place to build success. I also found the very specific examples of here's what can happen and here's what to do when it does to be invaluable. This is what really makes this book a survival guide. The Self-Employment Survival Guide is jam packed with tips, shortcuts, down-to-earth practical advice and wonderful stories that will inspire you as you undertake your new venture. It should be on everyone's must read startup book list. -- Diane Sabato, professor, business administration, Springfield Technical Community College

The Self-Employment Survival Guide is a needed and vibrant new resource for anyone who wants to not only survive, but thrive in the gig economy. It's a must-read for students, solopreneurs, and people age 50+ who are embarking on an entrepreneurial path of self-employment. -- Rebecca A. Corbin Ed.D, President & CEO, National Association for Community College Entrepeneurship (NACCE) Working with entrepreneurs is not an easy task. They tend to have their own way of thinking and are generally, very passionate about their venture. The Self-Employment Survival Guide by Jeanne Yocum helps to address many issues a beginning entrepreneur might have and maybe some they had not thought of yet. She has her own distinct perspective on starting, growing and maintaining a business based off her experiences in the entrepreneurial world. Her words of wisdom along with personal examples help paint a vivid picture of success for any entrepreneur. It is especially nice to see the advice is not all business related. Jeanne helps entrepreneurs understand the impact a business can have on entrepreneur's life. -- Tim Mittan, Entrepeneur Advocate & Business Coach; Author of <i>The Pocket Business Coach<i> Although one in ten Americans is self-employed, there is little practical support available this significant portion of our workforce. The work that many have done to help entrepreneurs certainly overlaps somewhat with the challenges facing the self-employed. However, there are unique issues that set the self-employed clearly apart from entrepreneurs. In The Self-Employment Survival Guide, Jeanne Yocum offers advice ranging from managing yourself, to managing your clients, to managing your workload, to managing your finances. Although self-employment may seem simple to those on the outside, there are many speedbumps, roadblocks and landmines that can cause the self-employed to stumble or even fail in their effort to make a living. This book serves as a resource that will greatly enhance the chances of success for the self-employed professional. -- Jeff Cornwall, Professor and Jack C. Massey Chair of Entrepeneurship, Belmont University

Author Information

Jeanne Yocum has been self-employed as a public relations consultant and ghostwriter since 1989. She is the co-author of New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies and Ban the Humorous Bazooka and Other Roadblocks and Speed Bumps Along the Innovation Highway. She has also ghostwritten six other business books. Her blog, www.succeedinginsmallbusiness, provides advice for small business owners.Jeanne Yocum lives in Durham, NC, with her husband, Robert Ickrath, and a puggle named Molly.

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