- Live and breath your brand
- Don’t hide it
- Promote on personal facebook
- Tell everyone you know
- Add it as your job on facebook
- Keep business cards on you at all times
- Offline networking is huge
- Chambers of commerce
- Young professionals meetings
- Local meetup groups
- BNI
- Weekly meetings
- Required dedication, but what you put in you get back 10x
- Few hundred dollars a year
- Some people have bad experience
- Makes you a better speaker
- 90% of my business has come directly or indirectly from BNI
- Multi tiered referrals
- Stay away from PPC advertising
- Don’t waste what little savings you have on paid ads
- Spend it on brochures or marketing materials and go knock down doors
- You’ll get shut down but you will absolutely get clients
- 10 businesses at a time, usually would get 1 or 2 clients every week from it
- Keep your day job
- Let people know you’re working hard to leave your day job
- I worked at verizon
- Either build your savings before leaving
- Or get enough clients your income is equal to or greater than your day job
- Trust takes time
- Trust turns into relationships which turn into revenue
- Don’t discount right away
- Don’t instantly give discounts just because you’re new
- Good clients will understand and won’t pay top dollar but will be fair
- If you intend to charge $1500 for this website, offer them $1200 as early adopter pricing
- Success takes time
- It’s taken me nearly 3 years to have MRR to pay all bills
- Maybe you others or even you can do it faster
- Taxes can be brutal
- You’ll have some quiet months, be prepared
- Incredibly rewarding
- Make my own schedule
- Don’t report to anyone
- I can fire my bosses (my clients)
- Can never go back to a regular job