From the course: Become Your Own Boss
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What do you need to get started in business?
From the course: Become Your Own Boss
What do you need to get started in business?
- What do you need to get started in business? Well, guess what, ladies. 12 months. Now I can already hear your eyes rolling. Trust me. The biggest question I get asked, "Small Biz Lady, why does it take 12 months?" Well, let me tell you. First and foremost, you need to reengage or build a network to start your business. And this is important because your network is your net worth when you start out in business because 90% of all small businesses get business from referrals. So the last thing you want to do is call somebody you haven't talked to in 10 years and try to sell them something. That is awful. You're going to end up with no friends left. So what you want to do is spend the next year as you're thinking about starting this business calling old friends, reconnecting with college classmates, going to networking events. You want to start building a network because you're going to need to call on that…
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