DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Employee to Entrepreneur

If you want to legitimize your brand or business and stand out against your competition, you must network. Networking is key to finding your target audience and growing a sustainable business. Finding your target audience is a never-ending job as an entrepreneur. Thankfully, networking can make this job more manageable and less demanding.    The following are four ways to improve your entrepreneur networking skills:  Join Social Media Groups  Facebook and LinkedIn offer many different groups within just about any industry or niche you can think about. Being active in these groups helps you learn more about the individual people...

Believe it or not, you can become a successful entrepreneur without experience. However, gaining experience can provide more confidence, perspectives, and knowledge to produce better products, services, or valuable content for your target audience. Not only that, but it helps increase your exposure and creditability as a business or someone within the industry. The best way to install trust within your community is to prove why you are the best to help, which is best done by sharing your experience.   The following are four ways to gain experience within your industry as a new entrepreneur:  Communicate with Your Ideal...

Did you know over seventy percent of consumers are willing to make a purchase or work with your business due to a personal interaction on social media? Furthermore, roughly eighty percent of marketing experts today report social media data essential to making decisions and running their company. In other words, without social media, they wouldn't have the success they are seeing today.    Reasons social media is important as an entrepreneur: To Communicate with Your Target Audience In this century, you will not be successful if you don't use your customers' platforms. Social media is one of the most popular...

Understanding marketing is essential to your success as a new entrepreneur. Marketing is how your target audience finds you. Without marketing, you won't gain the exposure to grow a sustainable brand or business. Marketing is how you gain the trust of your target audience by showing, telling, and proving that your products, services, or business are there to support them.    The following are six marketing tips every new entrepreneur needs to get started right:  Focus On Building Relationships with Your Target Audience First Before you sell to your audience right away, learn to build a strong relationship first. This...

Project management is all about the steps, resources, and other requirements it takes to complete an important project for your business and target audience. Without project management, you likely are not providing as much value as you need to grow a sustainable business. Value is key as you won't gain the revenue to support your life or business without it. Value is what draws customers and revenue your way.    Here are four important reasons why project management is key to entrepreneurial success: To Stay Within Budget  Not having the funds to support your business is a big reason many...