Quote Originally Posted by maillotpois View Post
Great advice in here.

I recently quit my job, after almost 20 years practicing as a litigation attorney with various law firms to start my own mediation/dispute resolution practice. I have been building the practice up over the last 4 years, and have a good amount of work to start with, but even so the actual leap to self-employment was pretty scary.
Do you volunteer for any boards for non-profits? Granted you don't want to give away expertise free but it is soft networking. Even better for a pet passion of yours. (Sorry, forgot that it is cycling among other things. )

I know one woman who has been running her own biz for nearly 15 yrs. She is one tireless self-marketing cookie and knows how to spin a casual but fun line about her biz. She's managed to get herself on local and national tv, radio and newspaper. Even international press coverage. She got burnt out for a yr. or so. Took off cycling solo somewhere in the Carribbean before returning to biz.

She runs a local walking tours company. Sometimes she does bike rides. It's not an easy biz to stay afloat.