Yeesh.  Starting this new business is hard.  Not that I’m actually shocked to discover that, really.  It’s even harder to do working full time.  Those 40+ hours feel more and more like wasted time as each day passes.  I spend the day unhappy and frustrated that I can’t be working on what I actually want to do, then it’s home to critters and chores, and then I finally get to put a couple of hours in on this before I have to crash.  Rinse, repeat.  But that’s okay, because I WILL get there.

Lucky for me, I have a couple of friends who are marketing folks and are willing to help out a bit.  I now have a fully operational website, Hamlin Proofreading, just in case you’re interested.  I have a logo, business cards, and a basic email that I can tweak for sending out to agencies and individuals.  I’m still working on updating the resume, but maybe I’ll get lucky and no one will ask for that.  I still can’t change my LinkedIn profile to reflect the type of work and connections I want, so I’m just putting that aside for now.

The focus now has to be marketing.  Getting my name and information out there, but not just willy-nilly.  It has to go to the right places, the right people.  Well, maybe a bit of the willy-nilly.  After all, you never know where you might stumble across that one person that helps everything take off…