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Yes to Entrepreneurship: Helping you build a better business
By Ed TroxellBusiness
Yes to Entrepreneurship: Helping you build a better business episodes
- YTE 013: How a pay what you can business model can grow your business with Brittney Hiller
In this episode we talked about:
- Starting out small and working your way up to that big idea/vision
- Virtual Yoga and an exercise you can do at your desk
- Just jumping into business and what one needs to do beforehand
- Infusing all of your work histories into your business
- Having a central location and how it really helps you achieve constancy
- Pricing and how Britney started with the "pay what you want" and still continues to use this pricing model
- Managing fear and having a fall back plan
- How one job can limit your skills and make you feel like you like that's all you can do
- Tying in both the online and offline worlds
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
49 min - YTE 012: Why you have to be about the relationship and not the sale – your reputation depends on it with Paula Creed-Smith
In this episode we talked about:
- Going from social work to being a concierge's to being a stay at home mom entrepreneur
- How and why you need to do your research before going into business
- Reputations and how bad news travels fast
- Being about the relationships, not the sales
- Social media and the legwork behind it
- How to use Facebook and Instagram and why you use them differently
- Software we use in business
- Accounting frustrations
- This episode even had me taking notes
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
1 hr - YTE 011: People first. How to build an online community with Brittney Rossie
In this episode, we talked about
- Starting a business when you're pretty much cut off from everything
- How a cancer scare in the family taught her a huge business lesson
- Why you can't play the comparison game
- Time management
- Social media and how it can all start with just a Facebook group and asking questions
- Building a community
- Ways to fight giving up on entrepreneurship
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
1 hr 8 min - YTE 010: Learn how to survive the wild, wild, west of web design with Webly Alfred
In this episode, we talked about
- Web design and the $300 website vs $1,500 website
- Educating the client and setting the right expectations at the beginning
- Why it's all about gaining clarity in terms of what is your business about?
- Stepping up your level of professionalism
- Scope creeping and isolation playground
- Building relationships, providing good customer service and winning over your competition
- Blogging and why
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
1 hr 12 min - YTE 009: Stepping out of your 9 to 5 & into entrepreneurship for the first time with Kelsey Turner
In this episode, we talked about
- Stepping out on her own, leaving a 9 to 5 and testing out ideas for the first time
- How to deal with the overwhelmed feelings
- Working a part-time job and working on your business
- Building a supportive community
- Isolation even add a 9-to-5
- How an art class made a huge impact on her and has helped shape her view on entrepreneurship
- Evolving as a person and a business
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
45 min - YTE 008: Get more engagement when you go live on Facebook & Periscope with Keenya Kelly
In this episode, we talked about
- Setting goals and beginning with the end in mind
- Tips on how to set prices for your product or service
- Strategies for moving forward in your business
- How lonely entrepreneurship can be and what we do to overcome it
- The one thing you need to be doing when going live on Facebook or Periscope in order to get more engagement
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
40 min - YTE 007: Broadcasting tips that will grow your audience, ratings & sales with Michelle Johnson
In this episode, we talked about
- Broadcasting and how you can grow your audience, your ratings, and your sales
- How you can start out by building your business on the side and start with just a simple newsletter in order to grow your business
- That transition timing and what seems to be the sweet spot for most entrepreneurs
- How having the perfect job and amazing clients doesn't always mean it's what's right for you and how to adjust
- Feeling like you can’t say no, but why you need to get past that
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
1 hr 3 min - YTE 006: Find your “zone of geekdom” & discover if you’re giving too much away with Kate Doster
In this episode, we talked about
- Affiliate marketing
- Contracts and why communication is important
- The mindset battles you face
- Shifts in your business
- “Zone of geekdom”
- Online courses and why you're probably giving too much and scaring away customers
- Filtering out the noise
Quotes
- “Zone of geekdom”
- “Call pricing as a gift”
- "Do not get caught up in what you're passionate about”
- “What am I doing in my business right?”
Resources
- Kate’s Facebook Group
- Name.com (Affiliate link)
- Miracle Morning (Affiliate link)
- Sprint (Affiliate link)
Connect with Kate at www.KateDoster.com
Background on the podcast
Yes to Entrepreneurship is a podcast for anyone who is thinking about starting their own business or is already running one. This show features entrepreneurs who meet and talk about business, life, and how it all plays out.
Imagine sitting at a coffee shop and overhearing the people next to you talk about entrepreneurship – that’s exactly what this show is about. Swing by and drop in on our conversations - you're bound to pick up a thing or two!
Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review. Also, be sure to check out YesToEntrpreneurship.com/podcast for the show notes and links to connect with each guest.
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
56 min - YTE 005: Why you need to turn your day job into a resource hub with Monica Tyson
In this episode, we talked about
- Technology, fashion, and the beauty business
- Turning your day job into a resource hub
- Living a simple life
- Why you always need to have a plan B
- Crisis management
- How sometimes you have to go through a few people before finding the right person
- Which era you need to go back to and learn from
1 hr 3 min - YTE 004: Taking a leap of faith & building that know, like, trust factor with Bernadette Alverio
In this episode, we talked about
- Opening the dance studio and building that know, like, trust factor
- risk and why you just have to take a leap of faith
- Working a 9-to-5 and building her business on the side
- Why do you have to be passionate about what you do
- Would you change it and do something different?
- Discovering the scariest part about business and the guilt associated with it
- Managing a team of people and the many hats one wears
- The one thing every one of your needs to block time out for now
- Those dark moments when we question ourselves
Quotes
- "Anybody can start dancing at any age any body”
- "I learn stuff every session”
- I had to work all these other jobs to work for free at my own business”
- "When you're an entrepreneur it's more than a job it's all of you”
- "It's a choice to be here”
Resources
- Facebook page
Connect with Bernadette at www.dancersmovementlab.com
Background on the podcast
Yes to Entrepreneurship is a podcast for anyone who is thinking about starting their own business or is already running one. This show features entrepreneurs who meet and talk about business, life, and how it all plays out.
Imagine sitting at a coffee shop and overhearing the people next to you talk about entrepreneurship – that’s exactly what this show is about. Swing by and drop in on our conversations - you're bound to pick up a thing or two!
Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and leave a review. Also, be sure to check out YesToEntrpreneurship.com/podcast for the show notes and links to connect with each guest.
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Join The Yes to Entrepreneurship Network where we pair you up with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – that help you START and we that make scaling your business online easier!
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About Yes to Entrepreneurship: Helping you build a better business
From the publisher's feed
Yes to Entrepreneurship helps people with a good idea get connected with the right resources – people, community, tools, and support – so that they can start and grow their business online.
These are the conversation we, entrepreneurs have but oftentimes don't hear...until now!
Find all the podcast episodes and Join The Network more over at YestoEntrepreneurship.com.