{"id":2664,"date":"2009-11-09T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2009-11-09T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:21:34","slug":"going-out-on-your-own-pursuing-the-passion-23-24-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/going-out-on-your-own-pursuing-the-passion-23-24-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Going out on your own: Pursuing the Passion 23, 24 &amp; 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#23 Charging<\/strong><br \/>\nForget hourly rates, charge value based fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#24 Tom Peters advice: meet the crazy people<\/strong><br \/>\nMeet at least 1 totally new person a week for lunch, if possible do 5 new people, but at the very least do 5. \u00a0Take them to lunch, have a coffee, learn about their business, what they do, how you can help, share what you do.<\/p>\n<p>You will learn a lot by hanging around new people, you gain zero by talking to people who already agree with you on everything. \u00a0This is my favourite way of building my business getting to know people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#25 Invest in yourself<\/strong><br \/>\nInvest in top tools, don&#8217;t skimp on yourself, if you use a computer, get a top computer. \u00a0Getting the top tools of the trade communicates to yourself and your clients you are serious. \u00a0(This isn&#8217;t always easy when you start out, but keep it in mind).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#23 Charging Forget hourly rates, charge value based fees. #24 Tom Peters advice: meet the crazy people Meet at least 1 totally new person a week for lunch, if possible do 5 new people, but at the very least do 5. \u00a0Take them to lunch, have a coffee, learn about their business, what they do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}