Short & Sweet reviews of our favorite books for entrepreneurs. This weeks review: BUILDING A STORYBRAND: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen Use the 7 Elements of Great Storytelling to Grow Your business by Donald Miller 5 out of 5 NINJA STARS Great storytelling is a major competitive advantage but many solopreneurs just don’t know […]
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Solopreneurs are usually intelligent people. Many have above average IQs. Creating a successful business requires intelligence, creativity, insight, and copious amounts of logic. However, a high IQ alone is not necessarily a marker for success. The most successful solopreneurs have something else – a high emotional intelligence (EQ). Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage […]
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Being a successful solopreneur is a career path many people dream about but few ultimately succeed in achieving. Most solopreneurs fail in their first year of business and many of these people are forced to return to ‘normal’ work. Creating a thriving self-made business is a lot harder than most people imagine. Even when purely […]
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When you start out as a solopreneur, fueling your motivation is never a problem. You’re overflowing with it and its all you can do to stop yourself from working day and night. The majority of people who start their own business are passionate about what they do and why they are doing it. However, over […]
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Welcome to another Invoice Ninja Story! This series profiles Invoice Ninja all around the world! BIO Virginia Fuentes is a video storyteller from Seville, Spain. She started her career as an advertising copywriter, working for Adidas, Vodafone, BMW, and other global brands. Virginia then pivoted to screenwriting, working as a scriptwriter for a cartoon series […]
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Short & Sweet reviews of our favorite books for entrepreneurs. This weeks review: Predictable Revenue: Turn your business into a sales machine with the $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross & Marylou Tyler 4 out of 5 NINJA STARS Entrepreneurs often struggle with stability because revenue is often not predictable. This book gets […]
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Welcome to Invoice Ninja Stories! Would you like to be highlighted? Email us @ [email protected] Our third Invoice Ninja to be interviewed is Samuel Laulhau, a France-based full stack developer Samuel Laulhau, an old school full stack web developer Samuel started in video games when flash was the future, later moving to web agencies when social […]
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Freelancing is a popular career choice for many people, especially those with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to escape a boring 9-to-5 office job. Yet while a freelancing career can be liberating in many ways, it’s also a very difficult route to take. Not everyone is suited to this way of working. There are […]
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Are your invoicing habits giving clients a bad impression of your brand? What you might consider to be standard invoicing procedures might actually be wearing a little thin with your favorite clients. You may send invoices daily or weekly, and consider it a rather routine and safe practice, when in actual fact you’re unknowingly undermining […]
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Welcome to Invoice Ninja Stories! This is the second article profiling our Invoice Ninja users all around the world. Would you like to be highlighted? Email us @ [email protected] The second Invoice Ninja to be interviewed is Ari Kuchar, Australian filmmaker & producer. Ari Kuchar Productions / Cre8 Video & Animation Production Ari Kuchar is […]
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Short & Sweet reviews of our favorite books for entrepreneurs. This weeks review: The Partnership Charter: How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix the One You’re In) by David Cage 4 out of 5 NINJA STARS We’ve read several books about how to make a successful partnership and think this one […]
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If there’s one thing that’s vital for a successful freelancer or solopreneur, it’s confidence. To succeed in business, you need to portray self-confidence and power, whether you work alone or you’re in charge of a team. Clients feel comfortable when around self-confident service providers. They assume, because of your self-assuredness, that the level of your […]
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Mindset is everything when it comes to growing a successful business. The way you think and the mental habits you cultivate can help your business thrive or struggle. While there are many different outside factors that come into play when running a business, ultimately, it’s your thinking habits that most influence the trajectory of your […]
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Short & Sweet reviews of our favorite books for entrepreneurs. This weeks review: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk 5 out of 5 NINJA STARS Best for solopreneurs ready to put in the work to tackle social media on their own. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gary Vaynerchuck’s family immigrated to the United States from […]
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You can be excellent at what you do but if you can’t properly market and sell your products or services, then no one will buy. You’ll be a solopreneur without customers. A huge component of great marketing is powerful copywriting. This is the content people read when visiting your website, picking up a leaflet, flicking […]
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Great business lessons provide freelancers and solopreneurs with both inspiration and guidance. Yet there are so many tips and tricks to be found online and in hundreds of different books. With so much information at our fingertips, some of which is conflicting, it’s difficult to know what to believe and who to follow. As with […]
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Short & Sweet reviews of our favorite books for entrepreneurs. This weeks review: The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge 3.8 out of 5 NINJA STARS: Best if you are about to scale up your team ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mark Roberge is Hubspot´s Chief Revenue Officer. When he joined Hubspot, it was a three-person software […]
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Welcome to Invoice Ninja Stories! This is the first article in our new series profiling our Invoice Ninja users all around the world. Would you like to be highlighted? Email us @ [email protected] The first Invoice Ninja to be interviewed is Phillip Stark, an American creative director, content producer, and entrepreneur based in Madrid, Spain. […]
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As a freelancer, you’re running a business, and this entails more than just working with clients. There’s also self-marketing, sales, billing, and the many different facets of business management to juggle. With so many different things to do, it really is important you effectively automate your freelancing career as much as possible. Automation is key […]
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Multitasking is an often frowned upon phrase among business owners and freelancers. It paints a picture of a professional trying to juggle multiple tasks at the same time but inevitably failing to achieve any of them satisfactorily. The fact is, multitasking can be a big problem. It can hamper productivity, cause confusion, and quickly lead […]
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