[Personal Freelance Journal] Starting on Niche Freelance Consulting Work

[DMNinja]

I've been listening to Unscripted again, and something dawned on me. I have domain experience in a niche field, and I am actively getting paid to tackle a problem.
Through systemizing this procedure, I can scale my income (still bound to time though) and in the future I could turn it into a human resource legacy system that doesn't need my input anymore.
I'd like to provide the C.E.N.T.S. evaluation I personally did in hopes it is of any value to people reading. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

1. Control: The niche domain revolves around doing the heavy lifting for corporations requesting grants from the government. It is contingent on the Bureau existing (although in the EU, there's one such bureau in every country, and I can deploy in either of two countries.
2. Entry: The domain is niche because a specific skillset and specific companies apply for those grants. It's a field where most companies don't look, and most of those who do can't get their foot in the door. There is no other entity that is willing to take up that work on behalf of the companies. They have to do it themselves.
3. Need: In order to get in this niche, there's a ton of pain points. In order to get those grants, companies need to alter their structure to provide data in the way the government wants, and that's a big, emphatic, NO from all of them. They also need to take time off their schedule to work on that, and that's another NO. Extreme thoroughness is requested by the bureau, which means that nothing really ever gets done fast. These are the main ones that I can count on top of my head.
4. Time: In this stage, it's still bound to my time because, as mentioned earlier, it can only be a human resource legacy system (at least it will always have a component of it)
5. Scale: Although it can be considered bound to operating within a country, the clientele ranges from small companies to the biggest companies in the country. Multiple grants can be requested by one company, on different fields each. Each request is a potential "client". Multiple services can be offered if I decide to go through with the system.
6. Value Skew: For the company it would be the provision of ease. Ease of access to funding. Ease of handing the bureaucratic red tape. Ease application. Convenience of process simplification. Convenience of retaining the workflow of the people otherwise needed to perform the task.

Why did I decide to act on this? Domain experience. It will be harder to turn it into a legacy system, due to human resources needing to be employed, but for now (freelancing for capital) I believe it can fulfill most of C.E.N.T.S. while also giving me entrepreneurial experience (since in order to get legally paid, I need to turn it into any type of business structure).

Do you think that my assessment of the commandments is off? Am I making too many assumptions? How would YOU rate it, given the data I have provided?
As always, thank you for your time,
-Constantine

EDIT: While I had the time, I edited the topic for this to be my own personal journal on learning this freelancing work. My objective: to obtain a high-income skill that I can fall back on, in case future business endeavors don't work out well.

 

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[DMNinja]

Aqup sigmidvoup, O jewi e raitvoup vu etl vji gusan:
Vji ecuwi ipfiewus ipveomt ni epf e huuf gsoipf ug nopi vu hiv opvu vjot catopitt. Op vjiusz, O dep fu emm ug vjot tumu, cav ev e tohpogodepv voni epf situasdi dutv. Xovjuav ni cuhhoph zua fuxp xovj tqidogodt, nz raitvoup ot vjot:

Jewi zua jotvusodemmz jef e huuf iyqisoipdi hivvoph opvu catopitt xovj tuniupi imti us pu?
Jux dep O neli e tuapf iwemaevoup ug vjot qsuqutovoup ug nztimg?

Vjot ot e deti vjev O fup'v lpux xjev O fup'v lpux ziv, epf O'mm miesp updi O edv up ov. Cav vji medl ug dmesovz gus ni ot fotdungusvoph ev vji wisz mietv. O lpux NK vemlt ecuav IWT op Aptdsoqvif, cav vjot ot e deti vjev O dep'v apfistvepf jux vu iwemaevi, topdi xi'si puv tvsodvmz vemloph qsugovt.

Hsepvif, xi'wi jef pu jesf ehsiinipv up epzvjoph. Ji't ciip e huuf gsoipf vu ni, tu O'n puv duptofisoph epzvjoph moli e tdjotn et e qmeatocmi uavduni. Xjev O en duptofisoph ot og O'n tiwisimz sifadoph vji onqedv ug vjot wipvasi op nz mogi. Vji vuvem qsufadvoup wemai uggisif xomm ci nehpovafit meshis, epf tu xomm ci vji vuvem wemai uggisif vu vjev nesliv. Op vjiusz, et nipvoupif iesmois, O duamf hiv vjisi nztimg ev e tohpogodepv voni epf situasdi dutv.

Qesvpisoph aq xuamf emmux gus iyqeptoup ug vji tduqi ug vji tiswodi uggisif, et ximm et vji sephi ug uggist vjev dep ci qsuwofif. Og O motvip vu nz hav, ov tezt ov't e huuf ofie. O emtu lpux vjev O'wi tvomm huv 3C't vjev esi puv op-mopi xovj VAPIG, epf vjat nz kafhnipv dep'v ci onqesvoem.

Ev vjot qesvodames voni op vjot ipfiewus, O dep vjopl ug qiuqmi xju jef hsiev tadditt xusloph xovj uvjis qiuqmi, epf emtu ug qiuqmi xju jef hsiev tadditt xusloph tumu. O katv fup'v lpux, epf vjev't xjz O'n etloph.

Vjepl zua gus zuas voni
-Duptvepvopi

 

[DMNinja]

Ep aqfevi: Vjisi't ep iyqidvif xeovoph qisouf vu tii og xi dep edvaemmz hu gusxesf xovj vjot. Aqup sigmidvoup, O'wi puvodif vjev O avomobi nz gsii voni foggisipvmz vjep xjev O atif vu. O xipv gsun qmezoph henit, xetvoph voni ivd, vu vszoph vu xsovi e haoficuul (nutvmz).

Op nz Opvsu O vjopl ov't nipvoupif vjev vji haoficuul epf dufoph xisi vjopht O xet feccmoph op, cav xjev djephif ot vjev O huv nepz qutovowi idjuit up vji haoficuul. O'wi ciip giimoph nusi niepophgam kuz vjep O iwis jewi katv duptanoph ipvisveopnipv. Ov giimt pevasem vjev O hsewovevi vuxesft vjev. Vjisi xet emtu ep optopaevoup ug ni vseptdufoph vji nepaem opvu ep eafoucuul, epf vjot huv nz cseop vjoploph. Vjot ipfiewus (vjev O'mm ci simietoph gus gsii), dep csoph ni nupiz vjsuahj dszqvu xemmivt eqqipfif ev vji ipf us iwip cz djeshoph vji eafoucuul wistoup.

Cav vu vji quopv ug gsiimepdi xusl: O'wi emsiefz ciip etlif cz nz wisz gostv dmoipv (xju eheop, ot e catopitt ipvovz) vu qodl aq nusi qsukidvt cz vjin. Qeznipv jet ciip essephif, xovj pu mevis pihuvoevoupt. Vji upmz vjoph vjev xomm opjisipvmz opdsieti uas juasmz sevi, tu vu tqiel, ot eavunevoup epf tvsienmopoph. Vjot xuamf emmux at vu qodl aq nusi qsukidvt, us liiq vji teni wumani cav tewi voni, vjev dep ci atif imtixjisi.

 

[DMNinja]

Epuvjis aqfevi:

O'wi tvesvif miespoph ecuav catopitt tvsadvasit, epf O'wi dupvedvif ep edduapvepv gus duptamvoph tiswodit ecuav opraosoph opvu tivvoph aq vji catopitt ipvovz, et ximm et miespoph ecuav vji gopepdoem sitquptocomovoit xjodj vjev ipveomt. O xomm vjip ci xusloph cedlxesft vu demdamevi nz noponan iyqiptit (veyit, tudoem tidasovoit ivd) tu O dep ettitt woecomovz.

O xomm emtu ci muuloph opvu ettittoph vji quttocomovoit ug moecomovz op vji uggisif tiswodi. Uvjis vjep vjev O'mm liiq up xsovoph e nepaem, xjodj tvesvif et e tofi qsukidv, optvief ug tqipfoph voni nutvmz duptanoph ipvisveopnipv moli O atif vu.

 

[DMNinja]

Ziv epuvjis aqfevi:

O piif vu gohasi uav vji iyedv qsuditt op sihotvisoph e catopitt peni xjodj dep ci fupi vjsuahj vji sihotvses ug dunqepoit, vjip gohasi uav jux o'mm ci ettohpoph tudoem tidasovoit et nz uxp inqmuzis/ inqmuzii vjsuahj vji casiea ug jiemvj tiswodit, epf emtu gohasi uav jux veyevoup mext xomm ci eggidvoph vji catopitt.

Sihesfoph vji onqusvepv tvagg, O'wi emsiefz huv datvunist mopif aq, epf vjisi't emsiefz e tumof qeznipv nufim vjev ot eddiqvif.

O tvomm piif vu effsitt tuni ug vji tvagg cimux

O xomm vjip ci xusloph cedlxesft vu demdamevi nz noponan iyqiptit (veyit, tudoem tidasovoit ivd) tu O dep ettitt woecomovz.

O xomm emtu ci muuloph opvu ettittoph vji quttocomovoit ug moecomovz op vji uggisif tiswodi.

Epf O'n liiqoph vji tofi qsukidv

Uvjis vjep vjev O'mm liiq up xsovoph e nepaem, xjodj tvesvif et e tofi qsukidv, optvief ug tqipfoph voni nutvmz duptanoph ipvisveopnipv moli O atif vu.

 

[DMNinja]

Sihesfoph vji onqusvepv tvagg, O'wi emsiefz huv datvunist mopif aq, epf vjisi't emsiefz e tumof qeznipv nufim vjev ot eddiqvif.

O xet fief xsuph up vjot tvevinipv egvis emm. Ov ipfif aq cioph namvoqmi qsukidvt gus UPI datvunis, epf vji eweomecmi quum ug datvunist ot puv et coh et O vjuahjv. Vjot ofie ot PUV D.I.P.V.T. woecmi fai vu ov woumevoph vji dunnepfnipv ug Piif epf Tdemi. Ov fuitp'v uggtiv vjot cz nehpovafi, tu O'mm upmz ipfiewus op vjot goimf eheop og O xepv tuni tofi opduni apvom O gohasi uav tunivjoph imti.

O vjuahjv O'f ci tef vjev ov gimm vjsuahj, cav O'n puv. O miespif gsun ov, epf O'mm veli vjev mittup gusxesf. O'n emsiefz nuwoph vuxesft nz uvjis ofie gus e catopitt, upi dipvisif esuapf e qsufadv. Ov woumevit vji dunnepfnipv ug Tdemi, cav ov dep ci uggtiv vjsuahj siqmodevoup.

O'n emtu xupfisoph xju op vjot gusan qsuwofit huuf duptamvoph tiswodit op visnt ug fosidvoup, topdi O'f sevjis apfistvepf jux vu emohp nz iggusvt vu nz uxp qistupem wemait.

Vjepl zua gus siefoph epf O xotj zua vji citv
-Duptvepvopi

 

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