Hi Solo Pros. I'm Barbara Saunders. The Solo Pro Business Success Expert. I help Solo Pros go from floundering to Flourishing! Are you still struggling from client to client with an hourly business model. You know what I mean: Where you charge a dollar amount for each hour of work. You keep hearing about how you need to stop charging by the hour - but if that's the only way you know to do business, what do you do? This summer I took a group of clients through my Constant Revenue System Booming Business Bootcamp. It was six weeks of pretty intensive business training with the focus on transitioning from the typical hourly business model - to my kayak business model which is strategically built to keep your business afloat and flourishing no matter what's going on with the economy. There are a couple of fundamentals you need to know to leave the hourly business model behind. (just to be clear: when I say 'hourly business model' I'm talking about the self-employed professional who is charging by the hour - whether you're a coach, a copywriter or designer, or maybe a healthcare provider. I'm not necessarily talking about someone working in an hourly job. However, if you are in a job and want to get out, you'd be MILES ahead if you were to understand these fundamentals). First: You need to understand about business models. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Steve Blank explains that using a business model is far more effective than using the old-school 'business plan' concept that used to be - an unfortunately still is - pushed by the Small Business Administration. Business models are proven systems that you plug your services and offerings into. Where essentially a business plan was originally a document you took to the bank to get a loan. It has nothing really to do with actually running your business. Second: You've got to be clear who you work with. I'm not talking the basic, overused 'Niche' or Target Market stuff. There's so much noise out there on that topic that people aren't listening anymore and the message has gotten lost in the mess. Third: You need to understand the concept of - what I call -the 'Stable Four'. Just like a four-wheel vehicle is more stable, comfortable and safe than on with one wheel, your business is too. I teach my clients how to build that stability into their solo-based business - their kayak business model. As we come up onto the final quarter of this year, I'd like to share with you another series of video trainings that will help you get ready to rock the rest of this year and be set up for a massively profitable 2014. I'd love for you to join me. Fill out the form at the right an you're in. Every few days you'll get a new video in the training series. I look forward to seeing you on the inside.

• published: 09 Sep 2013
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