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How to be an Entrepreneur as a Business Journalist
Presented by Maya Payne Smart and Joe Grimm
Day 2:Building Your Team
Presented by Maya Payne Smart
Today’s Agenda
• Identifying your business model
• Documenting your work flow
• Defining your ideal role
• Delegating the rest (up, down and sideways)
Goals for Today
• Understand that you must have great clarity about your goals in order for others to help you
• Recognize that no one succeeds alone and that your network determines your net worth
• Learn when and how to foster strong relationships with people inside and outside of your company
Model 1: Freelancing
Model 1:Freelancing
Model 2:Author/Speaker
Model 2:Author/Speaker
Model 3:Freemium
Model 3:Freemium
Documenting Workflow
• Generate story idea
• Pitch to client
• Negotiate contract
• Conduct online research
• Schedule interviews
• Conduct interviews
• Write article
• Proofread and fact check
• Submit to editor
• Revise
• Invoice
• Remind
• Collect
• Deposit check
How Work Disappears
• Define what’s important
• Neglect the unimportant
• Automate what you can
• Do your job
• Delegate the rest
What’s Your Job?
• Generate story idea
• Pitch to client
• Negotiate contract
• Conduct online research
• Schedule interviews
• Conduct interviews
• Write article
• Proofread and fact check
• Submit to editor
• Revise
• Invoice
• Remind
• Collect
• Deposit check
Delegating…
You Can’t Delegate…
• Working out
• Eating well
• Relaxing
• Friendships
• Family
• Ultimate responsibility
Getting Unstuck
• What’s standing between you and this action step?
• What pay off are you getting from staying stuck?
• How can your team help you move forward?
• What can you do to minimize fear/anxiety/risk so you are motivated to act?
• What next steps can lead to the big leap?
Questions?Please e-mail me at [email protected].