Tips for Startup

Posted: December 14, 2008 
Filed under: LM2, Writing
Tagged: career, cost, freelance, frugal, twitter, writers, Writing
Comments: Leave a Comment

Description

Starting a freelance business could be a very expensive proposition. A company could spend thousands of dollars on having a logo and branding package designed, hire someone to design a beautiful and fancy website, invest in expensive business cards and marketing materials and upgrade all of their computer equipment.

At LM2 Freelance our goal is to start our business very frugally. Economic times are tough for everyone and while we know that it takes money to make money, sometimes you have to make the choice to be cautious and invest into your business as you go.

So for now, we’re the whole crew. We’re using our talents to set up this basic wordpress based site/blog, I am going to attempt to do a basic logo for now (although we will hire help on that as soon as we can!), and we’ll likely order our business cards from Vistaprint. We’re reading tons of great advice from other freelancers, including these great posts we wanted to share:

• 5 Frugal Marketing Moves for Writers from Writers Unbound
• The Costs at Writing Journey
• The Cost of Starting a Freelance Writing Career at From Office Employee to WAHM

We’ve also just signed up for Twitter after hearing multiple recommendations for its many benefits. Follow us if you like, we’ll hopefully be tweeting plenty soon! And we’ll definitely be sharing info from our new Twitter friends here on our blog. Ok, it’s late and the work can wait until tomorrow!