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Quora Chronicles: How To Build A Business
October 20, 2017by Deepak Shukla
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Founder & CEO of Pearl Lemon Group. Three-time TEDx speaker and SEO consultant.
- You need an income
- Why not offer services in exchange for $
- Why not try private tutoring as a start?
- What are you good at?
- Get a headshot (if you don't already have one) smiling with your smartphone
- Have a friend help you write 100 word copy 'selling your expertise and experience'
- Post multiple ads on local classified sites and online directories (Gumtree/Craigslist/Kijii/Yell/192/Scoot etc)
- Brush up your resume in the same fashion
- Send this off to local tutoring agencies
- Get paid tutoring work - learn about freelancing
- Consider 'cost-free' startup businesses
- So online
- Read up anything by Tim Ferriss, Ramit Sethi, Eric Ries (entrepreneur, author),Chris Guillebeau
- Start something on the side
- Commit 4 hours a week MINIMUM to it
- Aim for 12 hours
- Learn. Website development, social media set up. Sales
- If you want skip 14 and learn to code instead
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