Running your home business can be stressful. Sure you have the freedom to take a break whenever you feel but in reality you have clients to answer to and work that can’t be put off. So what do you do when you have too many projects going at once, tons of stress baring down at you and a clock constantly ticking in the back of your head…
I am probably one of the few people left on the planet that does not actually enjoy Facebook. I loathe getting on there, seeing a bunch of drivel from people I barely recognize, let alone want to know all of my goings-on. But alas, resistance is futile and for both business and personal reasons have a Facebook life. An article I read the other day got me thinking about the word “friends.”
I recently had a conversation with a Legal Nurse Consultant about why her marketing efforts are not paying off as she had hoped. She had decent, non-memorable, self-designed marketing materials and had spent the last few weeks trying to drum up business. “It’s this recession”, she bemoaned. I agreed with her and suggested that also meant her ideal client (personal injury attorneys), as she had figured out after attending my LNC Marketing Workshops, were feeling the death grip of slow economic times. After our meeting, I got to thinking about exactly how many personal injury cases go to trial each year. I decided to find out. For illustrative purposes I wanted cases that actually went to trial since those are the cherry pick for a Legal Nurse Consultant or a Life Care Planner looking to get the maximum of hours possible on a case. Here’s what I discovered.