Honestly I always feel like I’m not doing anything. I don’t have any clients yet, I’m actively posting to try and get them, I’m starting to run ads. As for my other business I’m still waiting to receive samples but it seems like I’m not doing anything. Anyone else?
Entrepreneurs who have just started their business what do you do all day and how busy are you?
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Just stopped by to say best of luck, and be patient, breakdown task when starting new business, priorities what matters, quality products, customer service, marketing yes but don’t jump on ads straight away might cost you unless you have budget for it. As you mention your doing two business thats diverting your focus, try focusing on making one work first.
It’s a phase we’ve all gone through, don’t worry.
One piece of advice I can give you – which was given to me when I first started – is to set small daily routines or goals, even symbolic ones: spend an hour looking for potential clients, another creating content, another on learning (for example, by reading technical books related to your field), or on planning.
In other words, structure your workday with a framework that you’ll adjust as soon as you start getting clients.
Create your own blog (a great method for lead generation), and if you feel like it, make a few videos where you simply talk about your work.
If you have a solid, distinctive idea, clients will notice you sooner or later.
Hope this helps. 😉
There are a lot of things you can do. With no clients your two jobs are to get clients and make sure you’re operations are ready when you do. The key to marketing is trying a bunch of different channels, tracking their performance, tweaking them to optimize performance, pruning the channels that don’t work, and putting more into the channels that do. Try a variety of marketing channels and track their performance daily in a spreadsheet. A/B test changes to each and see how they affect performance. After a while you’ll begin to see that some are moving the needle and others aren’t. Get rid of the ones that don’t work and put more into the ones that do. That alone is a full time job. Then you have the operations side, making sure you’re ready to go when you have your first sale. There are probably a lot of things you need to have in place before you start operations that you haven’t thought of yet. Brainstorm and I’m sure you’ll have lots of ideas of things you can do to prepare when that first sale comes in.