#startingabusiness? Not sure how to get your brand out there? No #marketing budget yet? Try this!
YOU NEED TO HAVE… A great attitude, a brand you want to whole-heartedly show off, a business voice for people to take you seriously, the appropriate work attire, an elevator pitch, local phone number so people know you aren’t a fly by night, fantastic website, beautiful business cards, professional email address, clean social media personal and business profiles. CONNECT ON A PERSONAL LEVEL Get your family and friends onboard to follow you at first, from there move to your old colleagues if you dare, old clients if they are accessible, send out a personal message where appropriate like “ I’ve just launched my business, LightVantage Consulting, specializing in law firm optimization. Do you need an operations director for an hour/day? ”. Speak to your hairdresser or your doctor – get them on board (they see more people in a day than you do at the moment), connect with people you coffee’d/ networked/ interviewed with, and lastly get your Alumni’s onboard - stalk them dow...