Sometimes a blank slate is a great thing and sometimes it's an absolute
nightmare scenario. Imagine this,
your email list is deleted overnight. Your Instagram account gets hacked.
Your industry takes a massive turn,
and now your number one selling offer is irrelevant.
Or maybe you're just starting today. So a blank slate is all you have.
So what do you do with a blank slate in 2020 if you want to start your own
business? How do you build your business up? Where's the best place to start?
If you've ever thought about starting out or starting over in online business,
you're in the right place because in today's video,
I've actually asked my online business friends who are all six and seven figure
business owners exactly what they would do if they had to start their business
all over from scratch today.
And stay tuned until the end where I'm going to share with you the single most
important thing that I would do if I had to start my business all over from
scratch today. You don't want to miss it. It's probably not what you expect.
So stay tuned to the end.
I'm Elise Darma and I've helped thousands of entrepreneurs like yourself use
Instagram to actually grow your business.
And in today's video I've invited my six and seven figure entrepreneur friends
to share exactly what they's do if they had to start all over from scratch
today. So let's find out what they said. Alright, Abbey Ashley.
If you had to start your business from scratch all over today,
what's the very first thing you would do?
I would make a really full assessment of the skills that I have and those could
be skills that you could eventually teach.
But my opinion is that's the fastest way to make money is to offer skills as
services. So can you write really well? Can you,
would you be good at answering customer service emails? Can you design? Like,
what could you do that you could do for another business owner?
Cause that can be sold as a service and that could make you immediate money
while you're building out your dream.
Totally agree with that. Thank you. Becca Tracey,
if you had to start your business all over today from scratch,
what would be the first thing you would do?
I would niche the fuck in to one specific problem and create one product or
course or service that I can sell and that would be it.
And that's that.
That's that.
Mariah Coz.
Welcome to my channel.
If you were to start your business all over from scratch today,
what's the first thing you would do?
The first thing I would do would be my signature webinar,
so I wouldn't bother with any like free blogging or free content or Pinterest or
Instagram. I honestly wouldn't bother with any of that stuff.
I would just create one signature core webinar and I would base everything on
that, so I wouldn't really focus on putting out other free content.
I want to create one piece of signature free content and then I would probably
start collaborating with partners to start getting people onto the webinar and
then obviously have my signature course for sale and already be ready to presell
that. Even if I hadn't created the modules yet,
I'd be ready to pre-sell it the first time I did that webinar.
Webinars have been a game changer in my business too. So I 100% agree.
So Megan Minns. Question for you.
If you had to start your business all over today from scratch,
what is the first thing you would do?
I would do two things. I'm breaking your rules. I'm going to do two things.
I would definitely start a YouTube channel number one and number two right
alongside of it.
I would start offering one-on-one coaching just to start to get a better feel or
services of some kind to start to feel like feel out what I want to do to
actually make money.
But I think it's most important to not just start with the content.
You need to start with making money too so I like to do them together.
That is a very good tip. Thank you. All right. Question for you Rachel.
If you had to start your business from scratch all over today,
what's the first thing you would do?
Build an audience because we have people there and you can ask them if they want
your product or if they don't want your product or if they want to improve your
product or if they're buyers.
You can almost create the product for the person if you have the person there.
So start with an audience.
And one more question to piggyback that one.
What would you go back and tell your former self who's starting a business?
Oh, do it scared. Just jump. Like literally. It doesn't have to be perfect.
It doesn't have to have all the pieces. My first business, it didn't even have,
I didn't have an email list guys until I had like like 300 or 400 buyers because
I kept putting it off. Don't do that. Don't, don't wait until then, but,
but my point is you don't have to do all of the things. If you just get started,
you get that momentum and that momentum will help you grow. Love it. Thank you.
Tarzan Kay. If you had to start your business all over from scratch today.
Oh my God, this is the hardest question.
What would you do?
What would I do? Um, Oh my God, if I had to start over,
you know, I have, my business has grown so fast,
I don't know that I would do anything differently because something that people
don't talk about a lot is that actually very fast growth is like,
it's like almost traumatic.
There is so much that goes into growing really fast and I don't think I would
change a single thing because this is the pace that I can handle right now.
And I see,
I'm starting to see like what I know that a year from now I'm going to be
talking about.
Why didn't I hire someone sooner that was like so dumb because everyone says
that when they're hiring someone.
So I think with more support you can grow faster without with less discomfort.
I don't know. I'm totally guessing. So I think I would do the same.
Okay. And one more question to piggyback that one.
What would you go back and tell your former self who is starting a business?
Oh definitely.
Like your failures are the most important things that happen in your business.
Like,
that's where I learned the best lessons and it doesn't feel good.
Um, and sometimes the lessons, they don't come right away.
Like usually let's say a launch flops, like I've had a couple, uh,
when a launch flops like I right away I want to figure it out.
Like why did this happen? What's the lesson here?
Sometimes you don't even get it until months or years later.
But I like the greatest, um, the biggest like, you know,
when my business has like hockey stick curves,
it's almost always on the heels of something that felt like a huge failure and
that's just part of failing. We're all scared to act cause we're scared to fail.
Um, but that's part of being in business.
I love that. So there you have it.
Literally business plans that my six and seven figure entrepreneur friends
handed to you.
So you can choose one that sounds right for you and put it into action today.
Now what about myself? I've been in business since 2013.
So what would I do if I had to start all over from scratch?
The very first thing I would do is look at building an email list before social
media followers. Now, I know a lot of people know me for Instagram,
but I sort of fell into that.
If I were to be intentional about building an online business today,
I would definitely pick my market, pick my niche,
but the very first thing I would start building is an email list.
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Okay. That's enough. Okay. We nailed that.