Since June 2011 I’ve been running a series of weekly interviews with fellow freelancers and small business owners (the index so far is here) – would you like to take part?
I’m keen to have a large range of participants – so if you’re a freelancer, new or established, or call yourself an entrepreneur, or run your own business, whether it’s got 2 employees or 2,000, anything like that – do join in!
The questions are the same each time – allowing readers and other businesspeople to compare and contrast. It also makes it easy to submit your answers. And I’ll be following up in a year’s time, if you’ll let me, to see how you’re doing and show how we grow and change as businesses.
This is how it works:
- copy the questions listed below (including your contact details, web addresses, etc.)
- answer them via email or via my contact form
- I’ll let you know when your interview is published, and then you’re free to promote that on your website or blog
- A year after it’s published, I’ll contact you again for an update – and that will be published too (if you want it to be)
The really good thing I’m finding is that the combination of me promoting the interviews individually and as a series on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. and my interviewees talking about them on their blogs, websites and social media really is driving traffic to both their and my websites – which has to be good! It’s also building up into being a great and varied resource that will be useful for new business owners and more established people!
THE QUESTIONS
- What’s your business called? When did you set it up?
- What made you decide to set up your own business?
- What made you decide to go into this particular business area?
- Had you run your own business before?
- How did you do it? Did you launch full-time, start off with a part-time or full-time job to keep you going … ?
- What do you wish someone had told you before you started?
- What would you go back and tell your newly entrepreneurial self?
- What do you wish you’d done differently?
- What are you glad you did?
- What’s your top business tip?
- How has it gone since you started? Have you grown, diversified or stayed the same?
- Where do you see yourself and your business in a year’s time?
- Please give your website address and contact details
- Are you happy for me to contact you in a year’s time from posting the interview, to see how you’re doing and conduct another short interview?
You can see all the interviews here and there’s a lovingly prepared index, too!
Cool, what a great idea! I especially love the idea of following up in a year to see what’s changed. Definitely going to do this- I’ll email you sometime this week with my answers!
Excellent – glad the extra twist is proving a popular idea – I have certainly grown and changed my business since this time last year!
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Hi,
I’d definitely be interested in doing this. I’ll send you something through next week.
Great idea!
Emma
Great stuff – I look forward to receiving it!
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