EP 236 | Protect your Business with Braden Drake
August 24, 2021
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As design professionals, we have a high earning potential, but it’s impossible to realize that level of profitability without taking some risks. To protect your business and your mental health, a layered approach to legal protection keeps you safe and able to do your best work. Braden talks attorney with us in a non-attorney way.
In this episode we learn:
- for maximum legal protection, it’s best to seek a layered solution
- initial layers of protection include insurance and contracts
- after the initial layers of protection are in place, assess your personal risk aversion to decide if you need further protection
- to indemnify another party is to compensate that party for losses that that party has incurred or will incur as related to a specified incident
- alternative dispute resolution is a means to solving a dispute outside of court
DESIGN INTERVENTION
Charge More.
That was a big one. I way undercharged for my first two years. I doubled pretty much all my prices one week. My client load, and workload, decreased by about 25%, but my revenue increased by about 50%. This gave me more money to hire some help and more time to market my business.
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