Research Report — Coming Soon
So why does business
feel so hard?
If you are a self-employed professional who works hard, gets brilliant results for your clients and still feels like you are pushing uphill to get consistent work and be recognised for your true worth, this research report is going to change things for you.
Research Report — Coming Soon
So why does business
feel so hard?
If you are a self-employed professional who works hard, gets brilliant results for your clients and still feels like you are pushing uphill to get consistent work and be recognised for your true worth, this research report is going to change things for you.
Because here is what the data tells us.
Being exceptional at your craft and knowing how to run a thriving business are two completely different skill sets.
The businesses that survive know this. The ones that do not, find out the hard way.

Roughly one in three new businesses closes within two years. Fewer than half ever make it to five.
The ones that do make it are not luckier or more talented.
They built differently.
This research report unpacks exactly what that means.
Most research, even in the SME sector, is focused on businesses with teams and simply does not translate to the reality of running a business on your own.
The pressures are different. The challenges are different. The solutions need to be different too.
If you are a self-employed professional, this research was written specifically for you.
- is a research report that gets to the heart of why so many talented, capable self-employed professionals stay invisible, underbooked and underpaid, and gives you a clear, honest, evidence-based path out of it.
what you will learn
After reading this, you will know.
01
Why being brilliant at your craft is not enough on its own, and what is missing
02
What separates the businesses that thrive from the ones that quietly disappear
03
What the self-employed professionals who are in demand consistently do differently
04
How to go from building on hope to building on evidence, starting now
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About The Author

Sarah Davies
Business strategist, coach and founder.
Founder — Beyond the Hourly Rate
Sarah Davies created the Proof 1st Method after watching too many talented, capable self-employed professionals walk away from a dream they were absolutely capable of achieving. Not because they were not good enough. But because nobody had ever given them a roadmap to build a business that actually worked.
A strategist and coach, Sarah comes to her work with three powerful perspectives. She studied Marketing to degree level, spent years in the agency world working with brands like Hilton, ANZ and Unilever, and has built and successfully sold two businesses of her own.
She has been in the trenches.
She knows what works and what does not.
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