SECP: Develop a Cash Flow Mindset - A Key to Solo Business Success

Practical tools for the Busy Creative Professional

* Understand Cash Flow
o Tips for billing, collections and credit policies to facilitate cash flow
o Managing your cash flow- an anticipatory approach
* Charge Enough Money for Your Work
o Why creatives often under charge
o Steps you can take to bill what you are worth
* Create Measurable Goals-Metrics that Make Sense
o Why a set of business metrics is important
o How to develop them
o How to use them

Jackie Babicky Peterson is a consultant, writer and speaker whose practice focuses on helping creative entrepreneurs achieve business success. Jackie herself is a serial entrepreneur whose first business was a CPA firm. Now Jackie is an advisor for the Small Business Development Center of Portland Community College where she teaches business skills to small business owners and provides one on one business advising to her clients. She is the author of Better, Smarter, Richer, 10 Steps to Business Success for Creative Entrepreneurs which will be available as an MP3 on her web site www.jackiebpeterson.com in January, 2010.