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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, almost essential is a website telling people just how good you are in bed, naturally! You might also want to showcase any webdesign work you've done, too. Your website helps establish your credentials, if you can't design a bsiness site for yourself, how can you do so for others? You can work as yourself, under your own name, or you can form a company for cheap. The cheapest method of establishing a company is what's known as a "Self Proprietorship" (spelling?) In terms of taxes, moneys paid to the Self Proprietor company is the same as if it had been paid to you directly, but now you can work under a business name, something like "Wakkos Design" or something like that, and even take checks under that name! Clients are always more comfortable paying money to a company than to a person, don't know why, they're just funny that way. In Florida the Sole Proprietorship thing is known as a "Fictitious Name". More on this can be found at [url=https://ccfss1.dos.state.fl.us/corpweb/efiling/ficinfo.html]https://ccfss1.dos.state.fl.us/corpweb/efiling/ficinfo.html[/url] - Not much is really needed to register this name other than a fee of $50, and once you have this registration you can open a bank account under that ame, how neat! There are tax issues and such related to this, and even if you don't make any money you still must file a tax return for this "company" letting them know that! Now you've got a company, what was that name again? Better have a logo for it, which you'll need for that website, right? A domain for this wouldn't hurt either. So! [compress a whole bunch of time while you put together your website, critiques, re-vamping it etc...] Now that you act and look professional, (print some business cards too, they're cheap enough) it's time to find that client! You've probably already dropped a bunch of money setting this up, even if it's cheap, it all does add up pretty quick. Where are all the clients? Chances are you already know your first client, they just don't know it yet. Who do you know who a) has a shitty website and b) really needs a new one and c) actually has some money that they could pay you? You could build one for some loser friend or relative who has no money, and use them as a reference site, but you want to get paid! (I assume. ;)) If you pick the right first client you can probably get them to give you a try even before you get your credentials site finished, many freelancers never actually finish their own sites, they're too busy working. Consider who you know, not just your friends, but their parents too. Who knows you and thinks you're a great kid, hard-working and deserving a break? If you do a good job the first time out, and that person has influential friends, you could be started on a great career, just doing work for them, and people they know. Eventually you'll have a big enough portfolio that you can start cold-calling local companies that you know of who fit the above criteria (shitty website, needs a new one, has money.) You're in business now! Hmm, I compressed the time scale just a bit, but that's "getting started in business" in a nutshell. I'd sure appreciate it if someone else who's followed this route could add to this, there's dozens of ways to get started, this is just mine. Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] [This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 09-22-2001).] [This message has been edited by DocOzone (edited 09-22-2001).] Loading...
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