Comments on: Want to boost your business? Start with your business vision http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/ It's Your Freelance Career - Make it Rich! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dr. Vikrama http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Dr. Vikrama Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:49:52 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-121 Dear Friends, I started freelance writing initially as a hobby, then I took it for boosting my income as a part time work. As some money started to roll in, I got satisfied, didn't have any vision to further this business. It ended in lack of confidence to go full time as a freelance writer despite having adequate online reputation and infrastructure. Thanks. I will definitely work on it. Regards. Dear Friends,

I started freelance writing initially as a hobby, then I took it for boosting my income as a part time work.

As some money started to roll in, I got satisfied, didn’t have any vision to further this business.

It ended in lack of confidence to go full time as a freelance writer despite having adequate online reputation and infrastructure.

Thanks. I will definitely work on it.

Regards.

]]> By: Jennifer G. http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Jennifer G. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:37 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-66 I get it now. Plus I understand why it is important to have the vision even if it isn't etched in concrete. If you're going to try to do something, it makes sense to have a vision of being wildly successful at it in six months or a year. It keeps you on track. I'm glad I found your site! I get it now. Plus I understand why it is important to have the vision even if it isn’t etched in concrete. If you’re going to try to do something, it makes sense to have a vision of being wildly successful at it in six months or a year. It keeps you on track.

I’m glad I found your site!

]]> By: Chad http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Chad Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:04:31 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-63 Wow...TheWealthyFreelancer is putting together a DREAM TEAM! It's great having you writing for this site as well, Paul. I purchased your "Copywriting That Works" eBook a few months ago and found it tremendously helpful. I'm looking forward to more articles from you! Wow…TheWealthyFreelancer is putting together a DREAM TEAM!

It’s great having you writing for this site as well, Paul.

I purchased your “Copywriting That Works” eBook a few months ago and found it tremendously helpful.

I’m looking forward to more articles from you!

]]> By: Paul Lima http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Paul Lima Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:27:34 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-61 In some ways, you have stated my case more eloquently than I have. If you wanted to write for trade publications instead of what you are writing now, then you business vision has shifted. As your business vision shifts, your 'how' (or marketing plan) shift. You still need your vision because, as you say "it’s just not feasible to try *everything* out..." That is why you need the focus of a business vision. I don't know that you need a coach. I'd suggest some introspection first. If your business vision turns out to be boring and awful, you shift your vision. It's not carved in stone. I review mine once a year. Used to review it every 3 to 6 months. Having said that, if you do your research first, you might be able to forge a dynamic vision that evolves over time (rather than one you rip apart after 6 months). All the best with it! In some ways, you have stated my case more eloquently than I have. If you wanted to write for trade publications instead of what you are writing now, then you business vision has shifted. As your business vision shifts, your ‘how’ (or marketing plan) shift. You still need your vision because, as you say “it’s just not feasible to try *everything* out…” That is why you need the focus of a business vision.

I don’t know that you need a coach. I’d suggest some introspection first.

If your business vision turns out to be boring and awful, you shift your vision. It’s not carved in stone. I review mine once a year. Used to review it every 3 to 6 months. Having said that, if you do your research first, you might be able to forge a dynamic vision that evolves over time (rather than one you rip apart after 6 months).

All the best with it!

]]> By: Jennifer G. http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Jennifer G. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:36:19 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-59 Thanks for your answer. It just seems like when you're writing as a career you really have to throw yourself into whatever it is you're working on. Example: If I wanted to write for trade publications instead of what I'm writing now, I would have to research trade publications and how to write for them, then try it out. It's just not feasible to try *everything* out because there are too many types of writing assignments out there to become an expert at all of them. Is that what a coach is for? Someone that knows what the different kinds of writing are like and then can help someone go the right direction? Because my business vision could be to write for trade journals, but if that turns out to be boring and awful (I don't know if it would be or not, so I'm not judging trade journals) do I just scrap it and start a new business vision and start researching all over again? It seems like just because you have been writing "for a while" it doesn't mean you suddenly have an inherent understanding of how different types of writing differ as well as how the industry that surrounds how that writing gets edited and published differs. *grin* Again, I appreciate your answers and thank you for your time! Thanks for your answer.

It just seems like when you’re writing as a career you really have to throw yourself into whatever it is you’re working on. Example: If I wanted to write for trade publications instead of what I’m writing now, I would have to research trade publications and how to write for them, then try it out.

It’s just not feasible to try *everything* out because there are too many types of writing assignments out there to become an expert at all of them. Is that what a coach is for? Someone that knows what the different kinds of writing are like and then can help someone go the right direction?

Because my business vision could be to write for trade journals, but if that turns out to be boring and awful (I don’t know if it would be or not, so I’m not judging trade journals) do I just scrap it and start a new business vision and start researching all over again?

It seems like just because you have been writing “for a while” it doesn’t mean you suddenly have an inherent understanding of how different types of writing differ as well as how the industry that surrounds how that writing gets edited and published differs. *grin*

Again, I appreciate your answers and thank you for your time!

]]> By: Paul Lima http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Paul Lima Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:03:56 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-54 Presumably, if you want to start a particular business, you have some sense of the possibilities -- so at least you know where Idaho is! If you think you'd 'just like to start a business' because you want to quit your day job or you were laid off, you have some homework to do, to determine what you want to do, so that you can create a more detailed vision. Most of the people I coach have been writing or editing for a while and they have a sense that they'd like to expand their business or shift directions--maybe move from writing for periodicals to writing for the corporate market. The business vision exercises gets them thinking about what, specifically, they want to do and who, specifically, they want to do it for. Sometimes it leads them to find business under their nose, in Idaho so to speak, and sometimes it leads them to explore territory outside of Idaho, as in outside their comfort zone, which can be a constuctive thing to do. And yes, sometimes it leads them to do more thinking about the who, what, where, when and why. However, without answers to those questions, it sure as heck is difficult to figure out the 'how', so the time spend upfront on the business vision helps make the time spent on the 'how' much more focused and productive. Presumably, if you want to start a particular business, you have some sense of the possibilities — so at least you know where Idaho is! If you think you’d ‘just like to start a business’ because you want to quit your day job or you were laid off, you have some homework to do, to determine what you want to do, so that you can create a more detailed vision. Most of the people I coach have been writing or editing for a while and they have a sense that they’d like to expand their business or shift directions–maybe move from writing for periodicals to writing for the corporate market. The business vision exercises gets them thinking about what, specifically, they want to do and who, specifically, they want to do it for. Sometimes it leads them to find business under their nose, in Idaho so to speak, and sometimes it leads them to explore territory outside of Idaho, as in outside their comfort zone, which can be a constuctive thing to do. And yes, sometimes it leads them to do more thinking about the who, what, where, when and why. However, without answers to those questions, it sure as heck is difficult to figure out the ‘how’, so the time spend upfront on the business vision helps make the time spent on the ‘how’ much more focused and productive.

]]> By: Jennifer G. http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Jennifer G. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:14 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-52 If you don't know the possibilities, how can you have a vision of what it looks like? It's like saying pick your favorite food in the whole world...but you've never been outside of Idaho. :) If you don’t know the possibilities, how can you have a vision of what it looks like? It’s like saying pick your favorite food in the whole world…but you’ve never been outside of Idaho. :)

]]> By: Janice http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/2008/07/want-to-boost-your-business-start-with-your-business-vision/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Janice Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:53:01 +0000 http://thewealthyfreelancer.com/?p=39#comment-41 I like the idea of having a business vision, especially as I start out in my freelance writing business for the second time here I like the idea of having a business vision, especially as I start out in my freelance writing business for the second time here

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