Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a Writing Business

[jessica2824]

Writing is a low-risk business to start but with other businesses, it also requires you to watch out your mistakes before you get your feet wet.

Avoid these mistakes.

1. Not writing a business plan

2. Making the business plan too rigid

3. Operating as a sole proprietorship

4. Doin your own taxes

5. piercing the corporate veil

6. Paying for office space

7. skimping on cybersecurity

8. Doin everything yourself

9. Neglecting work-life balance

10. Failing to plan for growth

[seotut2]

What do you mean by writing as a business? Copywriting? Writing fiction? Books? Web publishing? To me, the term writing is vague.

[jessica2824]

The term writing covers all the subdomains of writing.

[noemit]

based on her profile it seems like shes a journalist focused on tech writing.

[mikeodds]

What about “not getting paying customers?”