Great first post! I don't have two side jobs, I have a business that involves both delivery and business development. This post has given me some insight and strategies that I'm going to use to more effectively take me out of my job and turn me into a turn business owner who doesn't need to trade his time.
ok that's interesting - particularly with small / smaller businesses there's a HUGE sales piece that you often need to do, and by its nature, sales can be 'always on'.
We might do a latter note touching on how to stay organised with sales - having said that we were Never going to be sales person of the year (if you haven't already definitely go see BowTie Sales Guy (https://twitter.com/BowTiedSalesGuy) and perhaps BowTie Cocoon https://twitter.com/BowTiedCocoon)
Systems / processes to put things on autopilot we will definitely be covering in some form. At pinch if you're just starting out (doesn't sound like it though) I'd actually hit up Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Work Week - he does a really good overview of the automation style thinking / mindset.
Our gut read (without knowing Anything about your business) is that you'll get quite a bit of ROI tightening up your sales tech stack and making sure it's not leaking too much.
Tightening up time / self / energy mgmt processes or human processes (where we come in!) is only really worth it when you're starting to operate at a bit more of an SME scale (minimum 10 staff), and even then, we'd send you to Systems first (and better to solve a challenge with a tech solution first before process / people solutions if you can)
There's a real risk of just "fiddling with the margins" with a lot of our stuff if you're not already in a certain place / haven't dialed in other parts first
Does this make sense?
We'll try and elaborate later in a cautionary note
Excellent read. Basic and effective,. The mollasas is a solid example. A lot going on and it can get overwhelming, which doesn't help get anything done
Comments, criticism & questions welcome -
Also note that BowTied Fox (who did the thorough 4 part guide on FAANG jobs featured by BTB!) is also compiling questions on this topic as well
https://bowtiedfox.substack.com/p/im-writing-about-working-multiple/comments?s=r
Great first post! I don't have two side jobs, I have a business that involves both delivery and business development. This post has given me some insight and strategies that I'm going to use to more effectively take me out of my job and turn me into a turn business owner who doesn't need to trade his time.
Look forward to reading more!
That's the plan! - feel free to drop down any bottlenecks / challenges / frustrations you run into on the ops, process or admin side. Grist | Mill.
thnks fren very kind
ok that's interesting - particularly with small / smaller businesses there's a HUGE sales piece that you often need to do, and by its nature, sales can be 'always on'.
We might do a latter note touching on how to stay organised with sales - having said that we were Never going to be sales person of the year (if you haven't already definitely go see BowTie Sales Guy (https://twitter.com/BowTiedSalesGuy) and perhaps BowTie Cocoon https://twitter.com/BowTiedCocoon)
Systems / processes to put things on autopilot we will definitely be covering in some form. At pinch if you're just starting out (doesn't sound like it though) I'd actually hit up Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Work Week - he does a really good overview of the automation style thinking / mindset.
The other thing Optimism - go and see BowTied Systems
really strong content (we're a little jealous)
https://twitter.com/BowTiedSystems
Our gut read (without knowing Anything about your business) is that you'll get quite a bit of ROI tightening up your sales tech stack and making sure it's not leaking too much.
Tightening up time / self / energy mgmt processes or human processes (where we come in!) is only really worth it when you're starting to operate at a bit more of an SME scale (minimum 10 staff), and even then, we'd send you to Systems first (and better to solve a challenge with a tech solution first before process / people solutions if you can)
There's a real risk of just "fiddling with the margins" with a lot of our stuff if you're not already in a certain place / haven't dialed in other parts first
Does this make sense?
We'll try and elaborate later in a cautionary note
Very good stuff. Looking forward to part 2
Thnks fren - Part II underway
Feel free to drop down any bottlenecks / challenges / frustrations you run into on the ops, process or admin side.
We have a several ideas for where we'd like to spend some time next but would valuable feedback from The Jungle.
Part II now published.
https://bowtiedhippo.substack.com/p/working-a-second-job-part-ii?s=w
thank you Hippo. Great tips here.
Excellent read. Basic and effective,. The mollasas is a solid example. A lot going on and it can get overwhelming, which doesn't help get anything done
thnks fren!
Basic and effective is what we like - keep it simple and you'll be able to implement / execute in all manner of difficult spots.
You're absolutely correct re: overwhelming - sadly a lot of modern workplaces are set up to make this worse