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Are you a Freestyle Entrepreneur?
If you’ve come to this site on purpose, you are a Freestyle Entrepreneur, also known as an SBO, or small-business owner. You may have dozens of employees, just a handful, or none at all, except for you and maybe your spouse…or a cat named Beer Can.
Your business may be headquartered in the heart of downtown or in the spare bedroom down the hall. You may make an income that tops six or even seven figures…or you may be wondering how to handle this month’s utility bill or if you should put off changing the oil in the truck for another week.
If you’re like many Freestyle Entrepreneurs, you sometimes wake up at 3:00 AM thinking about this client or that delivery. Money is often – if not always — on your mind, as you look for ways to spend less, earn more, reduce the amount you hand over to the IRS every quarter. You get eaten alive on expenses, nitpicked to distraction by the government, and have to shake your head in disbelief when you hear that such-and-such labor group is ready to strike over paying $5 more a month for health insurance.
You love what you do sometimes, hate what you do often, and find that there are times when your fondest fantasy is to chuck it all and become an hourly clerk a WalMart. Still, while you sometimes wonder why you do this, you can’t imagine doing anything else.
You do it for the freedom. You do it for the money. You do it because you know the answers and don’t need to form a committee or check a survey to figure out what you already know. You do it because there’s only one thing worse than working for yourself …and that’s working for someone else.
You’re a freestyle entrepreneur, a small-business owner – an SBO – one of the vertebrae that support the economic backbone of this country. You are fire-tempered and likely more than a bit weary. Why do you do it? Because you’re exhilarated by the hunt, the chase, the challenge of getting up every day and hitting the floor running to face the trials and opportunities of running your business. You’re an SBO
Why We Created The Freestyle Entrepreneur
Most business advice is for the big multi-billion-dollar, multi-national corporations like IBM or General Motors. And, quite frankly, much of it has little relevance to a business in which R & D can mean a brilliant idea in the shower, or in which a budget meeting may involve a chat around the kitchen table over ice cream. In other words, we’re pretty reality-based. We created this site to make your life easier, your business more profitable, your time more productive, and, most of all, to remind you that, yes, you may be crazy for being in business for yourself, but you’re not alone.
Share with Us
We’d like to hear from you. Like you, we’re SBOs. We have lots of ideas, but you have even more. You could say that the purpose of this site is to provide a place where SBOs can help each other by sharing ideas and experiences. Tell us…
- What makes you tick?
- Why are you a Freestyle Entrepreneur and how you ended up doing what you do?
- What’s the best part about being a small-business owner?
- What are the issues that keep you awake at night or that get you going at the dinner table?
- What do you know that might help other SBOs?
- What other issues or ideas do you want to share with others like yourself?
- Just as important, tell us what we’re doing right at The Freestyle Entrepreneur, as well as (and we hate this part, but it is so important) what we’re doing wrong or need to do better.
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