Sep 22, 2026 | Gig Economy
THE TACTIC Replace “I can’t take this on right now” with a real waitlist: a specific start date, a small deposit to hold it, and a follow-up you actually send. The best problem a solo operator can have is too much work, and most of us handle it...
Sep 18, 2026 | Gig Economy
Set a monthly budget for free help, spend it on purpose, and have a ready answer for every request that comes in after it’s gone. Once you’re any good at what you do, the requests start. A friend of a friend wants to grab coffee and hear how you got...
Sep 18, 2026 | Gig Economy
Turn every decision you’ve made more than twice into a written rule, so it stops being a decision and becomes a lookup. Here is a partial list of things a solo operator decides, from scratch, over and over: whether to take the small job, whether to give the...
Sep 16, 2026 | Gig Economy
Treat regular contact with other people who do what you do as operating infrastructure, not a social nicety, and schedule it the way you’d schedule anything else the business depends on. When you left the workplace, you left some things gladly: the meetings, the...
Sep 16, 2026 | Gig Economy
Build an external stop signal into your day, because the one thing a solo operator never gets is someone else deciding that work is over. Ask an employee when their workday ends and they’ll tell you a time. Ask a solo operator and you’ll get a pause....
Sep 16, 2026 | Gig Economy
Decide now, while you’re healthy, exactly what happens to your business on a day you can’t work, so that being sick never turns into a business decision. Every employed person gets sick days. Not because their employer is generous, but because someone...
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