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You Know You’re a Solopreneur When…
You’re thinking about changing your Elevator Speech.
You’ve heard of e-junkie, Mailchimp, Ning, OneRiot, StumbleUpon, Evernote, Tumblr, Mixx, BizSugar, TweetDeck, Twaitter, and Hootsuite—and you know what they mean.
You know the elements of a good landing page.
You are certain no one else has ever thought of the idea you just came up with.
You know the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
You check your sales figures on your iPhone before you get out of bed.
Checking your Alexa ranking is a highlight of your week.
In your mind, musicians are solopreneurs.
You wonder how the big corporations keep track of everything.
You have invested more on software this week, than you have on new clothes in the past six months.
You know the Google search results for your keyword for the categories: “Any time,” Latest,” “Past 24 hours,” “Past week,” “Past month,” and “Past year.”
You sometimes recognize senders’ names in the spam that gets caught in your Web site filter.
You have colleagues in Malaysia, Nigeria, Australia, Thailand, England—and you think nothing of it.
Half of your friends and relatives think you are brilliant, and the others know you are crazy.
You have had the thrill of a client who “just loves your work.”
You have e-mail accounts with Google, Yahoo, MSN, me.com, and you think you need all of them.
10:30 p.m. is early evening.
In your mind, pro golfers are solopreneurs.
You know the filing dates for your quarterly taxes.
You have a Google Voice account.
You can explain Purple Cow and Blue Ocean Theory.
You’re always afraid that your target market is too big.
The person who claims to be your spouse is begging you for dinner and a movie tonight.
You don’t have to think about how to spell solopreneur.
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Larry, you’ve hit it out of the park…hysterical! And I guess it’s official with me! The only thing I wish you had were checkboxes so I go down the page and check all of them and get an “A”.
I can relate to about 90% of these…I guess I’m still a novice solopreneur! Do you have a list for that? lol. Now, please excuse me while I go look up Blue Ocean Theory.
@Rob, thanks! I wrote it to amuse myself.
@Eunice, I will make a note, “Write Novice Solopreneur” post. LOL. There was a book written that has the title “Blue Ocean Strategy.” I think the theory/image of blue ocean can be helpful when branding, positioning.
@Eunice I second your comment. Blue Ocean Theory sounds like a book on surfing – the kind that involves water not a computer.
@Larry – great post. Made me LOL a couple times. I would add a couple more Digg, Technorati, Squidoo, SproutSocial, SlideRocket, SlideShare… and the fact that your spouse sometimes wonders if you have finally lost your sanity when you mention them!
As I read the piece on how you know your a solopreneur I thought of the opposite. You know your NOT a solopreneur when…
1. You have health benefits provided by your employer.
2. You have an annual performance appraisal.
3. You have a supervisor or manager.
4. You get a paycheck.
5. You get up and “go to” work.
6. You have a company anniversary party after five years.
7. You can remember what it is like to “get promoted.”
8. Someone says “Good morning!” when you arrive at work.
9. Someone else runs the Customer Service department.
10. That department handles the “complaints.”
Great stuff Larry….you got me thinkin!
thanks for sharing.
Loved it, Larry. I laughed at quite a few of these because they are personally true. I could identify with nearly all of the items on the list. Thanks for sharing the humor.