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Why should you listen to me? Well, first of all, I am 48 years old and have been self-employed for nearly two decades. I am not some hotshot kid, fresh from school, with ideas about what being self-employed is like. I have lived it.

I have struggled through growing my own business from scratch. I did not buy a business from someone else.

My business happens to be a service business. It started out as an accounting practice and has expanded into a financial services business. The advantage to this type of work is that I get to see hundreds of other businesses come and go — as clients. Some of them have been successful, and others are no longer in existence. This experience has allowed me to learn in two ways:

• The hard way — by making my own mistakes

• The easy way — by learning from other people’s mistakes