Hi Gary! Welcome. What kind of services would you like to provide?
This is solid advice. I started my Business as a side job to build slowly and exit out of my industry. I ended up finding a posting as a drone pilot to perform infrastructure inspections while looking for contract work. I ended up doing that, the information and experience in itself and the ability to fly some amazing platforms was an opportunity I could not pass up. It has limited my Business opportunities due to conflicts of interest for now, but since they only do huge contracts and not smaller jobs it works out. Start slow and try to build a customer base. Mine is still small, I did some small jobs for very little money for people I personally know to help build my resume. It actually helped land my full time job. It helps if you are just getting started.My first suggestions:
1) don't "go all in" and spend $$ you can't afford to lose. It's easy to go in debt for the shiny new equipment, branded car/truck/suv, and so much more. Don't do it. Build the business and buy with cash as you can afford it. Operating debt free gives you a lot of wiggle room for when things are tough.
2) Don't quit your day job until you have a proven customer base lined up and you have several months of bank deposits that support quiting.
3) Don't give your products/services away. IF you don't value your work, someone else won't either.
Good luck
Allen
Prayers for your family. Congratulations on passing your test! This is a great forum and depending upon which direction you would like to try there are a number of forums that can be recommended. One of which being the Mavic specific mavicpilots.com. It would probably be more aircraft an photo/videography oriented and this forum is a catch all for commercial use. I would also recommend forum.dronedeploy.com if you become interested in mapping. I moderate there and am pretty much always present. Good luck in your journey!
Never noticed that, thank you! On my way.
