MILO MAGAZINE • BUSINESS
No overnight-success stories. This section covers the unglamorous parts that decide whether a small venture works: pricing, customers, costs, and the paperwork people put off until it hurts.
Freelancing, reselling and local services, compared honestly: startup cost, time required, and what people really earn in the first six months.
Licenses, pricing and finding your first five customers, in the order that actually matters — and the expenses beginners forget to budget for.
Hourly vs project rates, when to raise prices, and the email template that makes a rate increase painless for both sides.
Customers, offer, price, costs, first sales: the five boxes that replace a 40-page plan nobody reads, with a worked example for a local service.
Referrals, local listings, useful content and community presence — the free channels that compound, and how long each one realistically takes to work.
Estimated payments, deductible expenses, and record-keeping that takes ten minutes a week. Not tax advice — but the questions worth asking a professional early.
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