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How to Get Clients When Nobody Knows You

How to get clients for a service business when nobody knows you yet: seven steps in order, where clients actually come from, the arithmetic behind your first five, and a 30-day plan.

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Marketing

How to Get Clients When Nobody Knows You

How to get clients for a service business when nobody knows you yet: seven steps in order, where clients actually come from, the arithmet...

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Founder Operations

How to Run a Project Kickoff Meeting, and What Goes Wrong

How to run a project kickoff meeting in nine steps, with a kickoff agenda, a worked example of a client website project, the questions to...

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Finance

How to Read a Cash Flow Statement, With a Worked Example

How to read a cash flow statement in five steps, then a worked example read line by line: a business that made $48,000 in profit and stil...

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Startup Foundations

How to Start a Side Hustle That Could Become a Business

To start a side hustle, sell a skill someone already pays for, check your employment contract, and turn your income target into hours bef...

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Startup Foundations

How to Build a Lifestyle Business, With Real Numbers

A lifestyle business is a maths problem before it is a strategy problem. Pick the take-home you need, gross it up into a revenue line, th...

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Marketing

How to Close a Sale: What to Say and What Goes Wrong

To close a sale, confirm the problem and its cost, clear the last objection, summarise the result, ask directly and stop talking, then fi...

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