On 1 August 2007 I started my first business. I remember it to this day. I had more enthusiasm than knowledge back then, but one thing I knew for sure: I want to have my own company.
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Buy or build it yourself? Every online creator, entrepreneur and virtual assistant faces this question. It's a huge dilemma on the e-commerce market: buy an online shop as SaaS or build it yourself. Or maybe commission an external company? Let's look at the pros and cons of each solution and what to watch out for.
Not every type of enterprise is suitable for a sole proprietorship. Not all kinds of enterprises are good for a lone founder. Many businesses are impossible to grow and run when you're a one-person craftsman. So how do you find a business that can be easily grown as a sole founder or a small team?
Is that a lot? Online, and especially in the WordPress community, things always boil over at moments like this. How can a site on a free system cost so much? Such sites are made on a ready-made theme for a few quid. Someone rigged the tender! And how is it really? Can a website based on a free CMS cost so much?
"Not today, I'm swamped" or "sorry it's only now, I've really got my hands full today" - I often hear this from friends running their own companies. I used to be like that too, but actually a few things let me change it and break out of this vicious circle. Easy to write, harder to carry out. It took me about 7 years.
Technology is developing at a crazy pace. Once, to create a radio broadcast or a video stream, you needed a recording studio. Today one person, with the help of a smartphone, is able to work wonders. What one company used to do, today one person can do. How do I cope with this and what tools do I use? That's exactly what this post is about.
Procedures, checklists and writing down tasks accompany me at every step: from work and hobbies to various duties. These three amazing tools make the day have more hours, mean that boring, repetitive things started being done by automated processes, and made delegating tasks simpler.
The massive fire in the OVH server room caused enormous confusion not only in the IT world, but also in a large part of the Polish internet. Even greater panic struck all the OVH clients who run their business online and had only heard about backups on the morning radio show or had their grandma tell them about it as a bedtime story.
For the past few hours the internet messenger Slack has been down. A few weeks ago you couldn't use Google's services, and even earlier a large part of the Internet wasn't working because of an outage of Cloudflare's services. Is it possible that cloud services are unavailable?
Go on a break, or maybe reply to that email, or pick up the phone from your boss? In what order should you tackle these tasks so as not to lose control and fall into helplessness? The solution to these problems may be the Eisenhower Matrix (also called the Eisenhower Box or Eisenhower Square).
Ditch the corporate job and start your own company - and ideally a start-up. Flexible working hours, innovation, big money and nothing but success await you. That Ferrari is waiting for you. All you have to do is.... The reality, however, is completely different, and it turns out that running a company is hard work.
The accounting department is some kind of magical bottomless well where everything either disappears or is forever being "booked". Payments come in there, but the fees for services no longer go out. When I ask a client (about a month after the payment deadline) whether they've already made the transfer, there's always a standard set of answers.