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First of all, grats on the move. It’s an exciting one, and I wish you the best!
Secondly, make sure that for every service you provide you have an established process as a baseline (and document it). Otherwise, negotiation in terms of timelines, associated costs (tools, for example), and pricing will vary too much and add an additional layer of unnecessary stress (both personally, and to the business). Coming from in-house/corporate jobs you already know All that Needs to be done, but make sure you know what all you Can do given your resources (team or lackthereof, tools, and especially time — bandwidth). It can even be frustrating, but you gotta break it down into smaller milestones.
With 15 years of corp experience you might know the rest of the things that might pop up, so that’s all I’ll share for now. Good luck! 💪
Thank you! That's very good advice and work that can be done now in the beginning stages vs catching up.
With that much experience you’ll probably be fine. Do you feel like you’ll have any trouble finding work or will you need to build up a customer base?
A guy who owns several local businesses that do a few million year approaches me about working for him. When I got into details his last digital guy destroyed his search and I'm not even sure what else. I live by three major cities and only the smallest one is showing up in results. He wanted me to clean up the mess and I just decided now is the time to bill him for the work vs being employed and dealing with whatever politics are there. Realized I'm only undertaking this under my name. That will keep me busy for a few months to put out feelers to other companies I spoke to but they didn't want to pay the salary. Also I know enough people in the space who will happily pick up easy work after hours to help me out.
Congratulations and good for you- very exciting. I have gotten many proposals for consultative digital leadership/strategy and know there is a very large need right now for transformation and systems leadership. I have been looking to speak more with others in this field either going out on their own or doing more strategic consultations in our space. I’d love to start a channel of some sort to open the opportunity for more conversations and exchanges.
We definitely think alike. The wheels turned when one agency wanted to switch to only strategy but the employees I met had all been there less than a year. I think meeting with one person who can bring in the team at a reduced cost is a real value add.
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Awesome! Best of luck. If you need a full or part time PM/Producer, let me know 🤠
I hope that's the case sooner than later!
Not getting paid. Offer a discount for upfront payment in full and clearly outline your revision process.