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Self-employment, start a business or auto slaving?
Is it the same self - employment to start a business? Are both subtle (or not so subtle) forms of modern slavery car? We see in this article.
To get started,
What do we mean when we talk about self-employment?
Because self - employment is fashionable.
Everyone knows that the traditional model of work is increasingly questioned, more put into question.
That of having "a job for life" ( "A curro" for the macarrillas 🙂) begins to sound like science fiction. And no wonder : in a changing world with a future career as an interconnected uncertain and evolving market and has no place the word "fixed" or the term "forever".
And this without getting philosophical, because Buddhists said the only constant is change.
That said, what is self - employment?
The self - employment is an independent labor activity in which a person works for itself, ie, instead of looking for work, create it .
With the current crisis at all levels, it is true that the possibility of self - employment has emerged as a solution to the unemployment problem. In addition, the Internet has favored the rise of the working channels to greatly reduce input costs and encourage the exchange of services and selling products online.
But that's on the Internet.
In the traditional lifelong physical world, is the self - employment a modern form of slavery, in which one enslaves himself, self enslaves?
Because if you must be physically present at a specific time to another, opening and closing the door of the shop, cafeteria, office, workshop ... because I already say. You can not even go to the bathroom in peace. And forget about the vacation, get sick, to take a sabbatical day, getting up at 11 ... You there, present and sign at the bottom of the canyon, working like a mule or waiting to pass the hours to leave once and for all home to watch TV or whining of your existence.
I sincerely believe that for that trip are not needed these saddlebags.
But what is a business? What is a business?
A business is a strategy, a system for generating income in exchange for the provision of services, selling products or capital gains.
If you are more traditional and academic roll, I will say that a business is an organized structure of goods and means aimed at achieving a valuable result in money (something I was taught in college, I do not understand is how I remember it soporific what it is).
Bluntly, a business is a labor activity with which you earn money, with which you make money .
But it is something else: unlike self - employment , in which you do everything in plan I cook I it as a business involves more the idea of system, structure, strategy, which converge more resources and people.
It follows that perhaps mount a business is somewhat less slavish to become self - employed, that self - employment . There are more people, more resources and everything is organized so you can work even if you're not there.
Starting a business , in that sense, it would require first to devise and after creating the structure that allows you to earn income.
Vs self-employment business
Therefore, self - employment and business are related words, but that does not necessarily mean the same thing.
Although there are people who believe, the confused or self-deceiving.
A few months ago I received an email from a person that I spoke to her, he said, business and, I, jail.
He told me he had "a business" where he worked more hours in the day, sometimes not arrive later this month for expenses that had to cover, and that whole litany of things you can imagine. And I asked his advice.
I gave it, being very straightforward, answering me thanks, but that he would continue with his "business" and not left for the world. Although losing money, but ended his health, his family, his life ...
From which I conclude that there are people who like auto slaving, self-deception and self buried in life, which is very respectable, of course, to taste the colors were made.
But not worth me the plaintive excuse and self - pity that I have no other way out, you do not have another way out, because it often obscures the real reason: I do not want to leave my comfort zone, I do not want to experience, do not want to create, not I want to innovate , do not want to discover another life, I want to be OTR @, I do not want to move from where I am because I've grown so fond of this chair (and this chain) that do not want to move my traserito it.
Taking action. How to start a business
That said, if you are someone who is self employed, you've seen as a first step could be to scroll through self - employment to the business itself , what is truly a business (and not a prison).
Within which, of course, they may be present both physical and digital, on line. Physical place on the planet's surface (cafes, shops, hotels, factories ...) and digital cloud, in the virtual world, ethereal waves and bytes (the blogging , the mobile applications , selling infoproductos created with your talent and knowledge ...)
What should be taken into account for this ?, how could mount a business ?
We see it.
Ideas to create a business
The first is an idea.
A monetizable idea, of course, that is an idea that can give you or give money .
To not much I refer to this post in which he addressed three ways to get business ideas .
Steps to set up a business
Once you have the idea, the following is to create the strategy, steps. And it would take:
⇒ Define the business model
Guy Kawasaki, in The Art of the Start , says a business model will force you to ask you two questions: Whose pockets is the money you need and how to do to get this money will end up in your pocket.
The truth is that not mince words.
A business model is ultimately determine how you will generate revenue, it ie how you charge.
That in turn means answering questions like: What are you selling? To who? How do you do? How are you different from the competition ?, etc.
⇒ Study the business feasibility of the idea, model
For any business idea seems wonderful to mind, especially the mind of the creator. However, you need to have feet on the ground and analyze if what we want is to be viable.
To do this, as María del Carmen González indicated on your blog Networking against unemployment must follow 5 steps:
- Define the purpose
- Shaping the business idea
- Investigate the sector
- Define your ideal client
- Make an economic forecast
⇒ Develop the communication plan
Which answers a simple question: how will know people that do what I do and I do very interested?
That, in turn, of course, involves creating mark (maybe staff), communicate benefits, resolve objections and, of course, convey the feeling to be a unique experience .
Systematize
And we come to the key, because if we want your project moves from being a self - employment business must unlink your time benefits. And this is very important: what you earn should not depend on how long you employ, or time that you give in return. If you do, you are a slave out of time, because you must exchange it , you must give it in exchange for subsistence, which is more or less what the slaves work to eat and keep eating to work.
How that next level is achieved, one in which the thing and serves as its own entity, as an organized and structured body even if you're not there? Systematizing, and also making the most passive way possible. This involves:
⇒ Create systems
Ie structures in which, following some initial (system components) a final result that is worth money or money occurs.
In other words: a system is a process that replicates a thousand times to always get the same result. You do this, you put it here, you put it there, and the end is an object that sell and worth money.
Automating processes ⇒
That is, make procedures are as automatic as possible, operating in pilot mode, once configured and have to do nothing or almost nothing.
Delegating ⇒
Hire other people to do the tasks you do not like, do not do well or require too long.
Above, which is nothing but strategies leverage is what makes a self - employment becomes something else: a business as automated as possible income you report. Income with after you ask great things as you like: How to invest my money? 🙂
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