Jeanne Yocum - The Self-Employment Survival Guide [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Jeanne Yocum - The Self-Employment Survival Guide [Podcast] - Career Pivot Scene #89 â€" Marc interviews Jeanne Yocum, creator of The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. Tune in for extraordinary direction for wandering into independent work. Depiction: For a long time, Jeanne Yocum has been independently employed as an advertising specialist and professional writer. This Spring, Rowman and Littlefield distributed Jeanne's first performance book, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. Jeanne recently composed two books: The New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies and Ban the Humorous Bazooka: [and Avoid the Roadblocks and Speed Bumps Along the Innovation Highway]. She has additionally secretly composed books on open development, key organizations, and driving quick development organizations. A Pennsylvania local, Jeanne holds a BA in Journalism from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters in Journalism from Boston University. Subsequent to burning through a large portion of her profession in Greater Boston and in Western Massachusetts, she presently lives in Durham, North Carolina. She credits her folks for cultivating abilities that have empowered her to prevail as her own chief. Her mom was a secondary teacher who drove her to cherish composing. Her dad was independently employed and filled in as her model on the most proficient method to prevail out there all alone. Key Takeaways: [1:23] Marc invites you to Episode 89 of the Repurpose Your Career digital broadcast and welcomes you to share this web recording with similarly invested spirits. It would be ideal if you buy in, share it via web-based networking media, compose a legit iTunes audit, or tell your neighbors and partners so Marc can support more individuals. [1:52] Next week's scene is intended to be the fourth scene of the four-section arrangement Can Juan Repurpose His Career? You'll need to return and hear the end scene of Juan's adventure! [2:04] This week, Marc has a fascinating meeting with Jeanne Yocum. Marc shares her life story. Presently on to the digital broadcast… Download Link |iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast|Podbean|TuneIn|Overcast [3:25] Marc invites Jeanne Yocum to the digital broadcast. Marc says he identifies with The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. For a long time, setting up CareerPivot, Marc was experiencing a great part of the outlook depicted in the book. He in some cases thinks he works for the most noticeably awful supervisor ever. [3:49] As her own chief, Jeanne humored her own solicitations for a considerable length of time off, as a rule. [4:15] Jeanne had been independently employed for a long time when she began composing this book. Notwithstanding her own understanding, a critical number of her advertising and occasion arranging customers were independently employed. She additionally worked with independently employed visual fashioners. [4:52] Jeanne didn't discover any books that tended to the quick and dirty of maintaining your business and the puzzling individuals issues you run into on an everyday premise. So she chose to compose that book as an asset for other people. [6:01] When Marc previously began he recruited a business mentor who strolled him through understanding the kinds of customers he needed and those he didn't and figuring out how to decide the distinction rapidly. Marc has concocted a plan of action where he requests a ton of his cash in advance. [6:33] Jeanne talks about the subject of whether somebody can prevail in independent work. Everybody likes to figure they could. At that point they begin getting some information about remaining propelled. (All things considered, the home loan comes due consistently! How's that?) [7:16] There's a mentality that you do require, including some particular attributes. Some of them can be educated. You can be extraordinary with your item or administration, however would you say you are incredible with the individuals issues? [8:04] When Marc began, he was accustomed to being a representative, not independently employed. It required some investment to get the independent work outlook. [8:24] Persistence, definitiveness, hazard resistance, self-inspiration, certainty, and confidence are the six qualities Jeanne prescribes you need before choosing to become independently employed. [8:52] Most of us working for any other person depend on somebody above us to settle on ultimate choices. That isn't simply the situation for the utilized. [9:22] Marc's concern as an independently employed individual was in being his own greatest pundit. [9:37] Some individuals beginning need steadiness. It's anything but difficult to get debilitated from individuals who are not intrigued or keep you dangling. Become acclimated to dismissal and become acclimated to following individuals who owe you cash. Not every person says yes and not every person pays on schedule. Take self-assuredness preparing. [11:07] You must be conclusive. Set up a system and give it a decent, legit opportunity to succeed. You need to move in the direction of something. Jeanne shares a customer story. In the event that you get nauseous about being the decider, you have to give this genuine idea. Independent work may not be directly for you. [12:43] Marc runs into certain individuals who can't settle on choices and other people who settle on slap-run choices without contemplating them. Do the examination however set a period breaking point to what extent you research before the choice. [13:48] Marc asks to what extent to clutch a thought before letting it kick the bucket as unworkable. Try not to stress how much time you have put resources into it. Contributing additional time won't make it work. Marc takes note of his own tumbled thoughts before he began this digital broadcast. [14:27] Don't continue delving an opening that you're up the creek without a paddle. On the off chance that you never settle on the choice, at that point you truly have settled on a choice not to accomplish something. You're going to confront dangers everyday, through no deficiency of your own. On the off chance that you can't endure chance, independent work will make you despondent. [15:39] Jeanne began her business toward the start of a downturn and has endure two more. She was concerned. She lost a significant customer. Be that as it may, another person tagged along. [16:16] You'll require self-inspiration. At the point when you're independently employed, you must have it inside yourself to do what should be finished. [16:45] Don't succumb to interruptions. At the point when business is down, it's no an ideal opportunity to paint a room. Return to your work area and plan something for produce pay. [17:10] You need to develop your self-inspiration. You need to need the business to succeed. Numerous organizations fizzle before the five-year point, to a great extent on the grounds that the proprietor needed self-inspiration. [17:35] Marc talks about the Birkman Assessment. One of the estimations is 'change/request.' Marc is low 'change.' He needs to isolate himself from 'gadgets' since he is excessively effectively occupied. He has taken Facebook off his telephone. He moved his web recording arrangement into a storeroom to confine himself. [18:57] Jeanne addresses legends: 'Life will be better without a chief. Think of the considerable number of choices the manager makes. You need to comprehend the bookkeeping, particularly about assessments. [19:53] When you're independently employed, you have different supervisors â€" every one of your customers. Every one of them needs to feel they are the most notable individual on your timetable that day and that you will bounce when they call. Jeanne discusses customers attempting to micromanage her. [21:27] Don't settle on the choice to act naturally utilized in light of the fact that you are discontent with your present chief. You need to check whether you have the independent work outlook, a strong arrangement, a market who will purchase from you, and the desire for getting by off the value you can charge in that advertise. In the event that you need to get away from your chief, locate a superior chief. [22:57] If you are racing to something, not away from something, independent work might be directly for you. [23:10] Will your work/life balance be so much better when you are independently employed? Inevitably, that might be valid. In the startup stage (the primary couple of years), your work/life equalization might be more regrettable than when you work for another person. [23:33] Marc has not had a work/life balance for a long time! On the off chance that you need to maintain a way of life business, you may not develop a lot of business. It requires some investment to make a business. [25:13] You will go to early-daytime organizing morning meals, twilight gatherings by the day's end, and do a wide range of work maintaining the business that you don't get paid to do. You need to maintain your business. You will require bookkeeping preparing, and so on. You don't get the chance to do exactly what you love (offering your assistance or item). [27:38] Marc makes two focuses: it's essential to chip away at the business, not in it, and make sense of what you are bad at or don't prefer to do and discover others to do that. Try not to figure you can't bear to recruit. You can't bear the cost of not to. [28:17] Marc can do any of the assignments in his business. So he needs to figure out how to redistribute to individuals who will do it quicker than he can, and for less cash. [29:02] Look at what your own time merits composing strategic agreements as opposed to composing code for your site. Income, income, income is simply the mantra of the utilized. [30:02] Marc requests that how manage salary and work process variances. [30:08] Jeanne says, keep at it. In the event that you have only a bit work to do, don't put it off to do your shopping for food or cut the grass. Accomplish the paid work first, at that point spend the remainder of the day acquiring new business. You can't ease up. Do tasks outside of business hours. At the point when things are down, don't let that divert you. Keep it up. [31:21] Another part of the independent work outlook is good faith. At the point when business eases back down, you can get debilitated or you can open another entryway. In the event that you simply keep at it, your plate will get full once more. [32:04] When you have an excessive amount of work, re-appropriate new work to a known and confided in seller. Or then again inquire as to whether they can hold up until one month from now when you can commit time to them. [33:27] Kay McManus of K-Kan says when you begin, the main capability for another customer is a heartbeat. It's difficult to flee from a customer with cash however now and again you need to confide in your intuition. You would prefer not to work with customers that remove vitality from you. It requires a significant stretch of time to heed your gut feelings, Jeanne says. Meet them for lunch. [34:48] If you have dollar signs I