When you first started your business, did you already have customers that you had established a relationship with at your previous job? Did/Do you get your new work by "cold calling" local GC's, realtors, or property management companies? Did you go to work sites like strip malls and the like with vacant lease spaces and post your business card? What did you do to get your business up and running and how do you find work in the slow periods when your regular customers don't have anything in the works? Without spending a fortune on yellow page advertising, how do you promote your business to the public? Do you use flyers or small ads in local papers?
What do you do for help when you find bigger jobs that might last for a short while...do you use a labor service? Do you want to remain a one man shop? If so why? Are you building a business or are you just self-employed? As a one man shop, did you set your business up as a sole proprietor or an LLC?? Do you work from your home or do you rent or own a "office/shop"?? What do you do for medical insurance? Do you use an accountant/tax person? Do you have an attorney you use for business purposes?
Just wondering!!!
