Start your own business

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What's wrong? I've never seen you this down before. You konw sometimes things happen that you think at the time are ..bad. But actually in the end it turns out to be a good thing. Did that make sense to you?

 I understand. But maybe you'll want to listen to our guest today. Erica. Maybe she can help you. She's not  a psychologist. She's a web designer. Well, Erica started her own business in web design completely by accident.

Erica: I started my own business by accident really. I was laid off a job that I didn't really like which was actually perfect for me. It was the best thing that could have happened to me.

 

Erica: By getting laid off, I didn't have to feel guilty about quitting a job to start a business. So while I was looking for a new job, I started doing websites for people and then I started to make myself a portfolio, a website, and it just sort of rolled from there.

 

Exactly, a collection of your work experience. Something you can actually hold onto for example photographs - or even something you can't hold onto like a website. You know, Erica brought up so many great words related to starting your own business. In the next there's more. We're going to hear "Getting money in the door"

"Pool of clients."
"coming out of the woodwork." it is a slang expression meaning all of a sudden and from every direction.

You're getting ahead of the story.

Erica: I did end up getting a fulltime job for a while just to get money in the door because it takes a long time to start your own business. And it took me a long to get clients. It took me about a year to start to get a pool of clients. But the economy picked up again and then it was basically a full-year cycle. And when I hit one-year I had clients coming out of the woodwork. It was amazing.

When she hit the one-year mark, clients started coming out of the woodwork. And now she has a large pool of clients. She even has to turn people down.
Erica: To this day I' m still overwhelmed by clients. I'm undercutting a lot of other businesses. I should be charging much more than I am. But you know, I' m working with small businesses and I like working with small businesses.

the lesson here is don't worry about a lost opportunity. It could lead to an even better opportunity.