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Dear Santa (and associated anthropomorphic helpers, elves, family members etc who help your international delivery of Christmas gifts.)
This Christmas, I know your elves are going to be super busy, so I would love you to support some of the small, amazing businesses here in the UK. Yes, I will absolutely do well out of the deal thanks to their creativity when their creations turn up under my tree, and yes, I’ll be able to add to my existing collections.
Ok, I’ve learned 1 million+ things, minimum, over the half-decade that I’ve been running my business BUT no-one has time to read that. So I thought I’d share the most important 5 things I’ve learned in 5 years as a freelance social media business owner.
Honestly, I spent six months prepping to launch my business before I dove in. Thinking about branding, what services I could offer, working on the side of my full-time job to save up a nest egg… and 1000% the most important thing I did was realise that:
This blog post is a little special. More than a little special – I’m celebrating my 5-year business anniversary. I genuinely never dreamed that I’d get this far, and thinking about it has me more than a little choked up. (The fact that I’ve been so busy with work that this post is technically two months late is neither here nor there…!)
I’ve been freelancing as a Social Media consultant for half a decade – HALF A DECADE – now. I’ve clicked and clacked my laptop keyboard as far away as New Zealand, and as close as my home office. I’m so proud to have worked with a gamut of businesses: tiny husband & wife businesses underlaid with passion through to multi-national corporate businesses.
Sometimes I just have to escape my home office – especially when I’ve got a severe case of the procrastinations – taking my laptop to one of my favourite London cafes and hotels to work from.
I’m not going to reveal every single one of my favourite places – I have working hidey holes all over London and we’d be here all day. But these are my favourites as a self employed freelancer. The newly opened Market Halls & Box Parks would probably make for good working locations as well, but I’ve not tried out their WIFI connections.
Well, first of all, I have a confession. I have a full list of things to get done today, and yet, here I am, procrastinating by writing a blog post with the clickbait title of 7 ways to stop procrastinating. Fun fact: I didn’t even get all the way through writing this post without stopping to take photos of the dried roses on my desk. How’s that for meta-procrastination?
