Hello everyone and welcome back to my show Comfort & Joy Business Minded Thinking. You know it dawned on me that sometimes i have a habit where I will have these clear loud thoughts in my head that completely make sense, but when it’s said or read out loud, it may sound a bit unusual. So before we begin todays show that is all about  “Denial” which is the first stage of grief, https://msha.ke/comfort_n_joy_themadridgirls/

Hello and welcome back to my podcast Lets do business. If you are just tuning in then know that this show is all about entrepreneurship, being your own boss; There are many tips and tricks on being a successful entrepreneur and today we will be talking about one of those tips.

Now this is episode 8 and i’m titling this episode “The Revamp” as I have revamped this podcast as I wanted to niche down to blow up.

Welcome back to my show, I have been on a major hiatus as life just happened and needed sometime to readjust. I wanted to hone in more on more niche by revamping this podcast as I want it to be more focused on how creating digital products as an entrepreneur is such a lucrative business right now and for many more years to come.

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Hello and welcome back to my podcast Lets do business. If you are just tuning in then know that this show is all about entrepreneurship, being your own boss; There are many tips and tricks on being a successful entrepreneur and today we will be talking about one of those tips.

In last weeks episode we talked about different streams of income and why having different streams of income is not just important for your everyday entrepreneur, but it should be a priority for the everyday individual. I used the phrase not putting your eggs all in one basket. The perfect example of that is looking at today and seeing so many businesses shutting down because of this awful pandemic.

The world is unpredictable, businesses are unpredictable, which means you need to have many streams of income because everything is unpredictable and you want to put yourself in the best possible position.

On Todays show we have Marlin Thompson who will talk about his different streams of income and how they have benefitted him.

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Hello and welcome back to my podcast Lets do business. If you are just tuning in then know that this show is all about entrepreneurship, being your own boss; There are many tips and tricks on being a successful entrepreneur and today we will be talking about one of those tips.

Having different streams of income is so important especially as an entrepreneur.

Have you heard of the saying don’t put your eggs all in one basket? This is very important to understand.

Let’s say you start a retail business where you sell womens apparel. It flourishes, it is doing so amazing and you feel like you are on top of the world.

Then all of a sudden a pandemic hits Covid 19 and that one store that you opened up where you absolutely depend on customers coming to your store physically, now has to close. You haven’t yet set up an online store, so that isn’t an option for you right now.

This is the case for many businesses right now, where all of their eggs where put into this one business and now you can literally see your business sinking deeper than the titanic.

Passive Income? What is it? Passive income can be defined as a source of income that one is receiving that is not from an employer or contractor.

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Hello and welcome back to my podcast Lets do business. If you are just tuning in then know that this show is all about entrepreneurship, being your own boss; There are many tips and tricks on being a successful entrepreneur and today we will be talking about one of those tips.

Finding your Niche. What is Niche you may ask? According to Oxford Dictionary niche is

a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.

So for example:

"he is now a partner at a leading law firm and feels he has found his niche"

So in other words niche is finding your passion, something that you are good at and feel comfortable with. Something that you can do everyday for the rest of your life.

It is so important I think as an entrepreneur to find your niche. This allows you to narrow in on your passion and simplify it so that it has the potential of growing beyond your wildest dreams. There is a saying that an online esl teacher uses where she says “niche down to blow up” I find this to be extremely beneficial to understand as an entrepreneur, but also the absolute truth.

As an entrepreneur, you have so many ideas, at times you will feel compelled to juggle them all. But the problem you will eventually drop one of those ideas or multiple ones and you will lose focus. It’s okay to have many ideas, but it’s important to focus on that one thing and develop it in a way to expand it. If it doesn’t work out, then you go to your next idea, focus on it and develop it to expand it.  What am I saying here, For example

I Love online teaching, Online teaching is my niche. But within online teaching there are sub categories, I’m able to expand online teaching by breaking it off into segments. For example: I sell my worksheets that I create for my classes, I am currently building my website to start selling my courses. Online teaching is all about being your own boss, so I created a podcast about entrepreneurship that will not just talk about my experience as being an online teacher, but will let other entrepreneurs be heard.

So when you find your niche, you should be able to break down that niche into different segments that will be different streams of income.

Hello and welcome back to my podcast Lets do business. If you are just tuning in then know that this show is all about entrepreneurship, being your own boss; That sounds so exhilarating everytime I hear “being your own boss.” It’s about doing what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. There are many tips and tricks on being a successful entrepreneur and today we will be talking about one of those tips.

Lets talk about branding. What does it mean to brand yourself one may ask? Well think of a shoe company, let's say this shoe company has exquisite taste, great looking shoes that you could wear any day of the week. You are having a hard time deciding which shoe you want to buy. A friend of yours shows you this catalog that’s all about shoes. These shoes are just as amazing as the shoes you saw, but you decided to go with the shoes in the catalog because they are Steve Maddens. Steve Madden is a business man that designs and markets shoes for men and women. He has a very credible representation for shoes and apparel.

When you brand yourself or the product that you are trying to sell, you are essentially building a credible representation for your brand that people will buy or follow you to get more and more of what you are selling or delivering. In other words you make yourself stand out from the crowd by making a name for yourself.

On today's show I have Bharggavi Ssayee

Bharggavi Ssayee is a Brand/Social media Marketer who runs paid ads on Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Amazon. She will be able to give you a behind the scenes look at how branding reels in your audience to buy your products..

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Welcome back to my podcast Lets do Business.

My podcast is all about finding what you are good at or niching down and turning what your passion is into a successful business.

We will continuously put out tips and tricks to give you the best entrepreneurial experience.

The notion that whatever happens in the past stays in the past, hmmm we can just go ahead and throw that out the window, especially when we look at vintage/collectible items. When we look at fashion from the 1950’s, 70’s, 80’s, we have seen how those trends have made a comeback in one way or another.

I love the ability of not reinventing the wheel, but simply adding to what is already there. This is a great concept for an entrepreneur to understand. As an entrepreneur you never really come up with something that is “brand spanking” new, instead you are adding to something that you are passionate about and creating innovative ways to broadcast your new spin on a vintage idea.

Fashion trends that have made a comeback might have not physically changed in appearance, but how the vintage item is sold is dramatically different from the past.

Because of advancements in technology and the online world, as an entrepreneur you are able to reach a further audience by selling vintage clothing/apparel and profit more.

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Welcome back to my podcast Lets do Business.

My podcast is all about finding what you are good at or niching down and turning what your passion is into a successful business.

We will continuously put out tips and tricks to give you the best entrepreneurial experience.

Ok so at the end of my last show we talked about my dad being an inspiration of mine when it comes to being an entrepreneur. We all have our inspirations, my parents struggles have definitely inspired me to be an entrepreneur. I’m going to take an excerpt from my blog, which I will also leave the link to my website in my description of this podcast. I wrote:

“:My mom, my dad, my grandfather, my grandmother worked 2 sometimes 3 jobs doing a job that they weren’t happy with all to make ends meat. Living paycheck to paycheck doing the best that they could do to support their family. Sometimes for dinner we would have a bowl of cereal, sometimes we didn’t have any milk so we had to use water in place of the milk for are cereal. My mom would be so tired that she wouldn’t even eat, she would just go to sleep. My dad would pay for that extra school item that was needed instead of getting himself good quality shoes that was needed for his job, you know to replace the ones that have holes in them.

Raise your hand if you remember seeing your parents go through the above statements. I know that a few of those statements are true for me. As hard as it might be to see you parents struggling to support you and your siblings, it also serves as a basis of what you want to be for your future. My parents did the absolute best that they could do in raising my brother and I.”

I’m sure many of you who are listening, have your hands raised.

I then went on to say:

My dad always had that entrepreneur way of thinking. In fact he started multiple businesses in his entrepreneur journey while my brother and I were kids and sometimes he would literally take us along for the ride.

So I’m now going to pass the mic over to my dad, and dad I would like you to introduce yourself, your name, businesses you have started and what your inspiration was?

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