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One of the most important things to keep a grip on when you run a business is the overheads. It’s so easy to let the cost of the “basics” mount up and start effecting your bottom line. We are going to outline how I first launched my office on a total shoestring but through being a bit savvy made sure that I didn’t compromise on any of the basics.
So in truth this post is half about me being a bit savvy and the half about me having made mistakes that hopefully I can now stop you making.
Google's Email System
This sounds almost too basic to mention, but it’s crazy how many people still get this so wrong. When I first started working freelance I moved into a shared office downtown Vancouver… This was probably the first good move I made, I rented a desk in an office with about 10 other freelancers, first off it was so cheap to do it this way and it also gave me an address Downtown Vancouver. For the first few months I worked from home, this was a false economy for me, I went crazy and work ended up totally dominating my life. If you’re working independently an office is a god send, it gives you regular social interaction and a regular routine, plus you can’t stay there all night. Anyway the point of the matter is that I was simply blown away by how bad some of my fellow freelancers’ email setups were. I would say to one of them did you get my email earlier and they’d be like “which email address?”… “oh that one… yeah that’s on my laptop and someone’s borrowing that at the moment” or it would be like “no it takes about 20 mins to come through because it being forwarded from this account which syncs with this one… but only when my home computer is switched on” and of course needless to say all their emails were stored locally.Read More
