Freelancing and Business Ideas - Day 1
In my previous post I outlined, very briefly, whats been going on for the last couple of months in Paulville. I am now on a complete solo flight from zero to hero and plan to chronicle my discoveries and decisions right here. Day by day. Old school.
I really dont want to go into details about my previous “venture” since the guys are still carrying the torch are awesome and I wish them all the best of luck but to put some of my whining into perspective I’d have to say that I wasted 9 months and a ton of cash on a wasted venture. Im a bit sour to say the least.
I now, from today, have to start a brand new company! Exciting right? First things first. What do we call it? Id the .com available? What services do we offer? How can “we” be “we” if there is only me? Not so exciting anymore.
I have tried a few times to set up a site for myself with very little or no success. Thats funny because I make pretty websites for all and sundry but I cant get my own house in order. To be fair to myself I have to admit that before it was a luxury, something I didn’t need, now it’s a necessity. Something that I am going to NEED moving forward.
First of all I decided to kick start my blog. Hence this post. At the moment its running on Tumblr but I am definitely going to move it onto Wordpress soon. Priorities, bleh.
Secondly I started the grueling task of finding a suitable name for my new company. After doing some browsing of online galleries for inspiration and subsequent visits to godaddy.com I realised that this was going to be a much harder task than I anticipated.
After I decided to NOT self-brand (tanks you Freelanceswitch) I started searching for that name…
I have spent the whole day and I have a few ideas that I think are solid. I’m going to sleep on them and run them past my wife in the morning.