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    Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide
    Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide
    Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide
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    Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide

    By Pertti Aholanka

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    Learn how to run a business while avoiding common mistakes. It is your destiny to work for your own gain. In this book, practice really means practice in the sense of what you should know to accomplish the business outcomes such as sustainable budgeting and profits. This book is already in the skimmer-friendly summarized form. It is written with a simple language that is easy and fun to read. This book is especially useful for those who are still hopelessly relying on other people and organizations for economic sustenance and seek to strengthen their position as successful breadwinners on the job market. It is there to help you be an entrepreneur.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPertti Aholanka
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370092567
    Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide
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    Pertti Aholanka

    Writings mostly about personal research and the related notes. Things are kept real, no matter the topic. Occasional spite and dry humor very likely.

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      Start a Company - Pertti Aholanka

      Start a Company: A Short-Form Self-Employment Guide

      Published by Pertti Aholanka at Smashwords

      Copyright Pertti Aholanka 2017, 2024

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your personal use only, then please return to your favourite book retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is dedicated to constructive human greed, ambitions and never giving up.

      This is the 2024 revised version. It adds four (4) extra chapters after the original 22 along with formatting improvements.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Versus Reality

      Chapter 2: Master Your Trade and Then Another and Another

      Chapter 3: Bringing Your Products to Your Clients

      Chapter 4: Showing Your Face to Your Client

      Chapter 5: The Service Showcase

      Chapter 6: Compete with Quality, Not with Your Customers

      Chapter 7: Sell Services, Not Goods or Products

      Chapter 8: Have an Idea with Your Business Model

      Chapter 9: Keep Your Company Small and Avoid In-House Hiring

      Chapter 10: Meet Your Clients

      Chapter 11: Everything Is Going According to My Plan

      Chapter 12: Take the Early Business as an Experiment

      Chapter 13: Take a Project Outlook on Your Business

      Chapter 14: Plan to Have a Bad Day

      Chapter 15: Reinforce Your Spirit

      Chapter 16: Quit While You Are Still Happy

      Chapter 17: Pick a Business-Friendly Line of Work

      Chapter 18: Be Able to Deny Requests of Clients

      Chapter 19: Keeping Your Dirty Hands Away from Your Budget

      Chapter 20: It Is Time to Make a Company Name for Yourself

      Chapter 21: Are You Afraid of Papers?

      Chapter 22: Jump Into Action

      Chapter 23: There Is No Getting Rich by Working for Another Man

      Chapter 24: Learn to Invest into Yourself and the Financial Markets

      Chapter 25: Market Aggressively and Stone-Coldly

      Chapter 26: Create Great Products and Marketing Literature to Swell Up Your Brand Value

      Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Versus Reality

      Most job positions come down to being either job-like such as freelancing or wage slaving, and entrepreneurship-like such as running a business operation or intrapreneuring that is working as a sub-contracted worker in a company environment. The main difference between the two is that an entrepreneur has to pay its own social taxes, the value-added tax or the sales tax in addition to the income taxes for his own salary. Luckily, solitary workers do not usually have to pay any corporate taxes. Also, it would not be completely wrong to describe entrepreneurship as attempting gold mining on a minefield. Entrepreneurs often have a much higher effective tax rate for the same amount of earnings than an average wage earner. Even though a worker might seem to earn less, it most likely gets to keep more of its earnings and statistically has to work fewer hours than an entrepreneur on average.

      An employee is like a neighbourhood kid, whose parents pay all of the upkeep costs of the kid and entrepreneur is like the one parent who gets to pay for all of its own and all of its kids’ costs. On the other hand, the business-owner parent gets to tell the kid to clean the room and to not watch violent movies. The worker kid does not have much say in anything and

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