He is a parallel entrepreneur—runs four businesses at the same time.
Learn from friends who own their own businesses.
Use what you know and who you know.
What can I apply to all my businesses vs. what is specific to each?
Investigate your hobbies and see if there is opportunity to build a business there.
Use your skills to consult for previous employers.
LinkedIn in a great place to get your name out there.
Use business events to network and meet clients, employers.
Get a business card for meetings and conferences.
When starting your own business, sketch a brief plan first in which you outline milestones and the tools you need to achieve them in the desired timeframe.
Ask yourself what are you skills, and who will your customers be?
Contact major publishing firms and ask editors if you can write articles for them.
Write a blog and send it for publication in the field to build yourself a reputation.
Identify a market and do keyword searches on different social media platforms.
¾ of all tweets have links to other sites.
Tweet things with links to articles that reference your work.
Comment on articles in similar fields as yours.
Use your blogposts to create and eBook.
Offer the eBook free to those who provide their emails.
Figure out what you want to offer, to whom you want to offer it, where to find those people, how to inform them about the product, then finally how to get them to buy it.
If you are burned out in your current career path, take one of your passions and monetize it.
Ask yourself what you’re good at and how you can apply it.
You have to embrace technology.
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