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Self-Employment Sidekick
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Добавлен 13 апр 2020
Welcome Business Heroes!
I am your friendly, neighborhood Self-Employment Sidekick, here to help you navigate the less-than-fun aspects of working for yourself; sharing some tips and tools to help you get the most value out of your business. Learn from my own entrepreneurial experiences (and missteps) as I document my own journey of launching and growing a business. Also learn from OTHER heroes like yourself, as I invite business owners and entrepreneurs of all kinds to tell their story and share their wisdom.
I love learning and having conversations about everything from small business strategy and marketing, to personal finance, work-life balance, taxes, branding and design, business software, tech, books, culture, organizational health, and more.
Learn more at selfemploymentsidekick.com.
I am your friendly, neighborhood Self-Employment Sidekick, here to help you navigate the less-than-fun aspects of working for yourself; sharing some tips and tools to help you get the most value out of your business. Learn from my own entrepreneurial experiences (and missteps) as I document my own journey of launching and growing a business. Also learn from OTHER heroes like yourself, as I invite business owners and entrepreneurs of all kinds to tell their story and share their wisdom.
I love learning and having conversations about everything from small business strategy and marketing, to personal finance, work-life balance, taxes, branding and design, business software, tech, books, culture, organizational health, and more.
Learn more at selfemploymentsidekick.com.
Business Leadership for Solopreneurs: Velma Knowles on Values, Purpose, and Leadership
If you’re a solopreneur or small business owner, here’s something you might not realize-you are a business leader. But are you maximizing your potential and leading with confidence? In this interview, I sit down with Velma Knowles, a speaker, author, and leadership coach, to discuss how solopreneurs can step into their leadership role and transform their business.
Velma shares powerful insights on:
✅ Why leadership is an inside job and how to start leading yourself effectively.
✅ The importance of aligning your business with your values for better decisions and less stress.
✅ Actionable tips for building influence and creating stronger relationships with clients.
✅ Her personal journey from co...
Velma shares powerful insights on:
✅ Why leadership is an inside job and how to start leading yourself effectively.
✅ The importance of aligning your business with your values for better decisions and less stress.
✅ Actionable tips for building influence and creating stronger relationships with clients.
✅ Her personal journey from co...
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I was WRONG about New Year's Resolutions
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Last year I posted a video about how New Year's Resolutions were bad for business owners. This year I'm making a New Year's Resolution... What changed, what changes am I planning on making, and how can YOU build momentum for positive change this year? Watch this video and find out!
Don't Ruin Christmas for Yourself (How to Avoid Year-End Business Burnout)
Просмотров 38Месяц назад
🤑 Get a $100 bonus when you open and fund a Relay account! sidekick.show/relay (affiliate link) ▶️ Watch the full interview with M.J. James: ruclips.net/video/W2wwUXdCR68/видео.html ️🔥 Download M.J.'s "Avoid Burnout Christmas List" www.mjjames.com/avoidburnoutchristmaslist The holidays are here, and while they should be the most wonderful time of the year, they can often feel like the most str...
Important Health Insurance Enrollment Information for Entrepreneurs
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A quick PSA for self-employed folks about health insurance enrollment. More health insurance resources: ruclips.net/video/VaBfdAkiAUg/видео.html ruclips.net/video/S0xpQZCs0VY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/b7Vx29xnVN0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/vhUbTsFtnW8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/fND9DalII2Y/видео.html ruclips.net/video/MQbP4BjsPeQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/XDiRCB-xfOg/видео.html
One Question You Need to Ask Before Your Business Ruins Your Life
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🎯 Download our free worksheet to clarify your family vision and align your business goals: sidekick.show/familyvision Are you unintentionally sabotaging your family for business success? As a parent and entrepreneur, it's easy to get tunnel vision when chasing career goals or scaling a business. But how much is that extra income really costing you? In this video, I share my brush with disaster,...
Going "Viral" Could Kill Your Business (Here's what to do instead)
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🤑 Get a $100 bonus when you open and fund a Relay account! sidekick.show/relay (affiliate link) Everybody wants to "go viral" - but that's the last thing you business needs. Here's what you should be paying attention to instead.... A big thanks to @BankwithRelay for sponsoring this video!* Relay is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Thread Bank; Member FDIC...
How to Pay for Health Insurance Through Your Business (and save a TON on taxes!)
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💰 Find out how much you could save on taxes with an S-Corp election. Schedule a FREE call with Formations: sidekick.show/formations (referral link) Health insurance can be expensive, but as a small business owner, there are certain tax deductions you can take advantage of, and more advanced money moves you can make to save a TON on your tax bill and control maximize your health insurance premiu...
Relay Review 2024: Still the Best Small Business Bank Account?
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⚡️BONUS: Get $100 when you open and fund your Relay account: sidekick.show/relay 🎁 SUPER MEGA BONUS: Open your account by December 31, 2024 for a chance to win $25,000!!! 💵 Watch my other Relay review: ruclips.net/video/Vf08Q6c70-E/видео.html 🤑 Profit First overview: ruclips.net/video/-SjK75x9iRE/видео.html 📙 Read "Profit First" by Mike Michalowicz: amzn.to/42scDrY (paid link) 📼 Get 50% the Pro...
Can AI Build a Website in 20 SECONDS?! (Testing Butternut AI)
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⚡ Build a website in 20 seconds with Butternut AI - sidekick.show/butternut (affiliate link) 💻 Get an $8 website audit at buildmybusinesswebsite.com 🤑 Unlock more self-employment support at selfemploymentsidekick.com I just tested out a new AI website builder, and... I have mixed feelings. Watch my review of Butternut AI, and see if this tool can make my web design job obsolete. 00:00 Introduct...
Are You Making These 4 Common Website Mistakes?
Просмотров 533 месяца назад
💻 Request your $8 website audit at buildmybusinesswebsite.com There's a LOT that can go wrong with a website design. Here are 4 of the most common website mistakes I see folks make that are holding back their small business. 00:00 Introduction 00:46 Mistake 1 06:08 Mistake 2 08:12 Mistake 3 12:52 Mistake 4 16:37 Bonus No-No 17:58 Where to get help Learn more at selfemploymentsidekick.com
What's the Best Way to Respond to Negative Reviews?
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What's the Best Way to Respond to Negative Reviews?
Where Did All Your Money Go? (Tips to Boost Your Cashflow Confidence)
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Where Did All Your Money Go? (Tips to Boost Your Cashflow Confidence)
Are You Measuring the TRUE VALUE of Your Business?
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Are You Measuring the TRUE VALUE of Your Business?
Is Your Data Safe? (Backblaze Review)
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Is Your Data Safe? (Backblaze Review)
5 Things You Should Write Down Before You Die
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5 Things You Should Write Down Before You Die
Can You Mix Business and Politics? (A Look into the Sticker Mule Marketing Drama)
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Can You Mix Business and Politics? (A Look into the Sticker Mule Marketing Drama)
Turn Off the Lights to See Them Better
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Turn Off the Lights to See Them Better
How to Pay Quarterly Estimated Taxes as a Freelancer (SUPER SIMPLE Method)
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How to Pay Quarterly Estimated Taxes as a Freelancer (SUPER SIMPLE Method)
Build a WordPress Website in 2 HOURS (Step-by-Step)
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Build a WordPress Website in 2 HOURS (Step-by-Step)
Do You Actually Need an Accountant or Bookkeeper?
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Do You Actually Need an Accountant or Bookkeeper?
CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) Explained
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CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) Explained
Don't Get Stuck in the Insurance Trap
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Don't Get Stuck in the Insurance Trap
Small Businesses that Made the BIGGEST Impact
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Small Businesses that Made the BIGGEST Impact
Pretend You're Worth It and You Will Be (Overcoming Objections to Raising Your Rate)
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Pretend You're Worth It and You Will Be (Overcoming Objections to Raising Your Rate)
Evolve Your Pricing Strategy to BOOST Profits!
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Evolve Your Pricing Strategy to BOOST Profits!
How to Set Your Freelance Rate (FREE Calculator Template)
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How to Set Your Freelance Rate (FREE Calculator Template)
Deflate Your Stress Balloon: Practical Tips for Entrepreneurs & Business Owners (and 9 year olds)
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Deflate Your Stress Balloon: Practical Tips for Entrepreneurs & Business Owners (and 9 year olds)
The Best FREE Tools for Freelance Finance
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The Best FREE Tools for Freelance Finance
You should have recommended Cloudflare - they are PROUD of the fact that they do not charge more than what it costs them just to get a domain name - plus they are literally saving the internet.
so perfect!
im confused on healthcare.gov it says “Status: We're sending along your information to your state agency” does that mean its gonna send my info and the provider is gonna contact me and say whether i have insurance or not or do i have to do something else to get insurance
Superb work! And excellent music too. Those cookies look so yummy…
Thanks!
Great job, Dave & Velma!!!
Thanks, John! And thanks to @PlatformLaunchers for making the introduction ☺️
Thank you ❤
You're welcome! Thanks for watching 🙂
I’m interested about s corps
An S-corp election can be a great option for a lot of businesses. I talk about S-corps in a few of my videos, but you're probably best off speaking with a tax professional who can help you figure out whether or not if would be a good fit for your situation. I use Formations to set up and manage my S-corp. They gave me a link to share with anyone who would be interested in booking a free consultation with one of their experts: sidekick.show/formations
Get tired of the actors I found health care for 10 dollars a month yea sure if it’s 10 dollars a month it’s a scam just another Obama care that crap
Great video. This was all the help I needed. Now I'm going to experiment with multi cam, using multiple phones. This is dope! Thank you and Reincubate Camo. Great stuff.
Glad it was helpful! I'm not sure if you can use multiple phones at once with Camo (worth a try though!), but you should definitely be able to use at least one phone in addition to a primary camera for a multicam set up. Let me know what you end up with!
@SelfEmploymentSidekick You're right... it only allows one phone at a time. I wonder if that could change in a future update. Phones have such great cameras now and are abundantly available. It seems to work v solidly with the phone, in any case. I managed to record my first streams of content!
So you have to pair the phone and Mac Camo app each time you want to use it, though? It doesn't seem to preserve the pairing when you minimize the app on the phone. Is that right? Did I miss a trick?
Can I use Zelle, Paypal, or CashAp to make quick payments to payees? Or does it have to be ACH?
Watched this video after a year though it is very useful
Glad it was still helpful! I was thinking of doing another live Q&A soon. Any questions you wish I had covered in the last one?
Can you make one without your computer because I don’t have a computer
If you're asking if you can make a video without a computer, absolutely! Just shoot with your phone and use an app like Adobe Rush or CapCut to edit.
Thank you for helping to understand some more the [[Harvard-Phd-degree-needed-to be-understood]] US Healthcare system
😊 You're welcome! It does feel like you need to learn another language to understand some of this stuff sometimes.
Unfortunately this app isn't available for Linux users. Is anyone aware of any comparable alternatives that support Linux?
Android phones have a built in "Webcam over USB" feature you could try out.
Good to know, thanks,@@SelfEmploymentSidekick! Any idea where I can find more info on this and which version of Android this feature was introduced in?
This was huge! Thank you.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Great video Brother! I have a QNAP box at home, 200GB of storage on Google, and a plan from iDrive I got for $9.99 it was on special for 5TB
Does this still work
I believe it does. I configured and tested it for someone else just a few weeks ago.
Very helpful, thank you for your time 🙏🏼😊
You're welcome! I'm glad the video was helpful.
Thank you so much for this insightful video! Quick question.. Is Shopify considered a web hosting service? Or would I need to purchase an additional web hosting service such as Hostinger? Thank you in advance!
You're welcome, and great question! Shopify provides hosting with their platform (you don't need to install it on your own hosting service like you would with Wordpress). But as far as email goes - I'm not sure if they offer webmail as part of their subscription. I do see they have an email marketing feature you can use to send promotion emails to your customers, but if you want to use Gmail to send from business domain, you'll need to use an additional service (purchase a Workspace subscription, or try the Hostinger method I show in the video).
was the 80's adult flick music really necessary 2:45 onwards?
It was either that or polka.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick How about no background music? Just you / your content by themselves are great.
I appreciate that! And I agree with your recommendation 100%. I published this video a couple years ago while I was still "finding my way" on RUclips. I still am. But I've definitely been toning it down on the music more recently.
Was the 80's p*rn music really necessary?
Maybe someone knows something like this for android?
Are you looking to use an Android tablet instead of an iPad? I haven't tested them, but two apps I've seen mentioned are MirrCast and Duet Display. Let me know if you figure it out!
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick I do not have a problem to connect android tablet to laptop. I can not mirror flip image for teleprompter.
Cancellation of Open Enrollment during anytime?
"Open Enrollment" is the 2-3 month period everyone can enroll in a plan. I believe you can cancel the plan anytime. And there are other qualifying events (like losing a job or having a baby) that open up your own special enrollment period anytime in the year.
They are a terrible company never bank with them had the worse experience ever
How many emails can you create for a domain under premium web hosting plan of hostinger for a domain individually or combined? The web hostings limit of 1GB should I be worried of it as mostly the emails we recieve are sketches from clients. We currently have a regular email account with google one storage purchased. We use it purely for email. Not for calendar or anything My question is we require 5 company emails with the mail we're currently using as the destination we manage everything it has a google one storage of 100 GB as well. Is this a sound setup? What do you think of this?
Great Vid!
Thanks!
$450/mo with a $7,500 copay before I get any benefits. This is a shill. I don't smoke, I'm under 40, and I have no medical needs. This is just our government trying to force us into a scam. D3 We don't need these scumbags eating up our money then weaseling their way out of paying out the insurance we need. REFUSE health insurance and demand fair pricing.
Deny. Defend. Depose.
I'm losing my mind rn about it, Im no longer gonna be on my family's health insurance, to my knowledge since they disowned me, so I'm trying to look for insurance but my problem is I can't figure out how to properly report my annual income due to my job giving me very sporadic hours and every check being completely different. I don't wanna accidentally underestimate my income and end up oweing on taxes after using the tax credit if I'm qualified for it.
I totally get it! The health insurance stuff really freaked me out, and it actually deterred me from going full-time self employed earlier than I did. I have a very similar situation with variable income, and I didn't like not knowing exactly what sort of tax credit I would qualify for (I still don't like it, but I figured out some ways to make it a little more predictable). I would recommend playing around with the calculator on the marketplace website. Plug in the lowest income you would reasonably expect to receive next year, and then run it again with the highest income you could imagine receiving in the year. See how much the premium tax credit changes between those two numbers. If you want to play it safe: estimate high, pay a slightly higher monthly premium, but then you can collect a bigger tax refund when you file your taxes if you end up making less than you estimated.
I am shopping for a plan now. When reading the document for benefit details for one plan. The copay for prescription is $500 copay PER Prescription.
Eeeesh. That's crazy. You might want to check out something like GoodRx to supplement an insurance plan with crappy prescription coverage.
This country is genuinely so cooked.
December 15th is the last day for open enrollment. I made more income this year that will im afraid lose medi cal. I am very scared and need health insurance with pre existing condition!!! no scams!
Depending on how much your income increased this year, you should still be eligible for some amount of premium tax credit to help keep your plan costs down. And it's my understanding that eligibility is based on your *adjusted* gross income (after you subtract the standard deduction). But I'm not a tax expert and not sure of your state's specific requirements. Most health insurance exchanges should offer some sort of support to help double check your eligibility and answer your specific questions.
I'm getting paid for the first time and of course, i did not update my payment method. Did you get the check at the end of the month and was it a longer wait compared to direct depost?
I honestly forget how long it took and when they sent it. It took a while for me to accumulate enough for my first payout - I was just happy to receive it at all. But since switching up to direct deposit and a lower payout threshold, payments appear to hit my bank the same day Amazon sends it at the end of the month.
thankyou so much!!!
You're welcome!
Oh wow... you're a family man and going with Silver? I wonder if someone single (mid 40s, male) should spring for that or Bronze. I guess Silver just for that "peace of mind", but above that may be overkill
I'll double check my math, but I think I found the lower deductible and out of pocket max was worth the extra premium cost.
Thanks for your explanation through this video, I haven't got such details from hosting providers.
You're welcome! Glad I could help clear things up.
If you have dozens of TBs of data backblaze might be a good solution, otherwise, and most people don't, you're probably better of with other providers, especially those proposing 'lifetime' solutions. Since I've joined backblaze it's got 80% MORE EXPENSIVE already! and it doesn't seem like they are planning to stop there. They also never have any promos for the existing customers, they are only interested in hooking up new ones. It's also not that you get any features for that increased price really, or that the storage has got more expensive - the opposite. There are issues too - you go for a longer trip, 4, 6 weeks and you've got a problem, cause you need to connect the drive to keep the files. Or let's say you get corrupted files on your HDD or a silent virus. If you don't realize within 30 days, the old files are overridden and gone. And yeah, sorry for being honest, I know you get 1 month free for everyone signing up.
If backing up a NAS with multiple computers saving to it, do you still require more than one plan?
Good question! I think you'd just need one plan. If one computer can connect to the NAS and access all of the files from the other computers.... I don't know if there'd be a way for Backblaze to know it's actually multiple computers. There may be some fine print limit to "unlimited" though.
Those rates are ridiculous. That's the problem, yes, you can get a card showing you have insurance but the rates will kill you. You can't accord to use the insurance.
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but I want it.
No. [squirts with spray bottle] No.
@@SelfEmploymentSidekick hahaha
"Awesome video! Can you share which software you used to create this? Also, could you recommend any courses or resources to learn how to make videos like this? Thanks!"
i could not find an info if an ipad air 2013 works, this old ipd wants to be used and not dying away in the storage ? would that work ?
It is the worst experience I've had in my life. I've lived in multiple states, and I can't stand the rhetoric in this state (NY). It's like someone is looking me in the eye and saying, "Hahahaha, this isn't for you." It is a terrible system. The coverage I had at the beginning of the year was something $1000/month, with a $600 deductible. That's now up to $1400/month. PER MONTH. Then, you get to pay a higher and higher deductible. So I really really really cannot relate how all of you (presumably leftist) folks are so accepting of this nonsense. I guess it's kind of like, you get to go completely broke from this, and then when you're broke, you get to sign up for welfare.
bro ppl on the left sick of this shit too let’s fight it together. people over profits!!! $1400 a month is ridiculous.
This is the only video I found that clearly explained everything-- THANK YOU!
You are very welcome!
So you recommend every freelancer set up an S corp, right? Just to be clear.
No. Not necessarily; especially if you're just starting out and side-gigging. There's probably going to be a cost involved with managing an S-corp (you'll want to hire someone or a service like Formations to help set it up properly and handle your books). If the tax savings outweigh the cost, then go for it! Folks estimate you need to be making $40K-$60K before it pays off.
I rarely comment on forums but this step by step was absolutely brilliant and exactly what I needed. My config was godaddy as domain manager, and hostinger as email manager into gmail and it works great! Saved me a microsoft 365 acount ($16pm), online exchange account and a few other upsells. Went from $20+ per month, to $1.59. From Australia
That's awesome! Glad I could help!
Thankyou!
61 here and ready to retire 😁. Can I afford it? Hmmm let’s see lol
Hopefully!