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Mac Power Users

272: Mac Based Small Business

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

It's been several months since David went solo. He shares how he created a home-based Mac small business and his workflows for staying productive while wearing many hats. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

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0:00.0

MacPower users episode of the Mac Power Users

0:17.1

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside my friend David Sparks.

0:20.0

Hey David!

0:21.0

Hey, Katie Floyd, how are you today?

0:22.6

I'm doing well.

0:23.7

And you know, this is an episode that I've been thinking about for a while.

0:27.2

Ever since you announced, gosh, what was it several months ago now,

0:31.2

that you were kicking it to the man and going solo.

0:34.8

Yeah that all happened kind of in late February.

0:37.4

After 21 years and a lot for my left and opened up my own solo practice.

0:42.4

And it was terrifying and we thought at the time, hey, that's a good show.

0:46.3

So what you're saying is you quit your steady job after 21 years and took a huge risk just so we would have content for

0:54.7

this particular episode of MacPower users. That's how I roll. Because that's

0:59.0

how dedicated you are to the show. And so we were thinking at the beginning I said well let's wait several months because I just wanted to see how the dust

1:06.4

settle. I had kind of an idea of how I'd go about setting up my own small Mac-based business which is what this show is really about how do you set up a small Mac-based business, which is what this show is really about, how do you set up a small-mack-based business.

1:14.8

And but I wanted to kind of be in the trenches a while before I got too much on my pedestal about this.

1:30.0

Yeah, well I am really excited to hear about how it went for you because I actually have a little announcement that I'm ready to make public with the internet.

1:33.2

Bring it on, Katie Floyd, let's hear it.

1:35.6

Yeah, so I quit my job too.

1:38.6

There seems to be something going around, isn't there?

1:43.3

People get around me and things happen.

1:46.2

So what are you doing with your life?

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