- Beth Davis is the president of Dakota Resources. Dakota Resources has created financial products that help bring capital to rural areas. They also have an entrepreneur development program that helps create an infrastructure in those local communities and a network across South Dakota that supports entrepreneurial development.
- There are freelance opportunity in the production of radio and television.
- To start a copywriting business, Beth recommends visiting an ad agency or nonprofit organizations. Often nonprofits don't have in-house staff to do the writing for them.
- Do market research and find out where the need for copywriters exist; who is currently in the market; where the opportunities are, and where the people who hold those opportunities hang out. Invest the majority of your resources where these people hang out.
- Start with a Facebook business page that would refer to a website that would carry examples of your work.
- Invest in a quality website.
- An important quality for any entrepreneur is leveraging the gifts, talents and passion of others. It is really important to know yourself, know what you are good at and then pay other people to do the things you are not good at.
- Letting go of control is probably one of the scariest things for entrepreneurs, but one of the most necessary to grow a business.
- Find other entrepreneurs who are also passionate about what they do.
- There are two things that move people out of poverty or out of a place of scarcity.
- One of the things that Beth encourages people to do is, even if you are an introvert is to go talk to people. Tell people your ideas; tell people what you are working on.
- Growing luck: It is what happens when you risk sharing your dream or sharing your idea.
- Questions are so powerful. People like talking about themselves. Show interest. Ask questions and soon people will be asking questions about you. That creates conversation and dialogue.
- Risking and sharing your dream creates opportunity for connection to luck.
- Luck can be manifested by intention.
- The second one is assets. Invest in savings and invest in education.
- Do something every day that moves you toward your vision. Just keep taking small steps in the right direction.
- If you are truly committed, the universe eventually aligns with you. If you are clear about what your purpose is, you have clarity of vision and you are willing to be open to how that vision is realized then your purpose will be manifested. As long as you are putting energy every day towards that vision and purpose, eventually the alignment will happen.
- We live in a world of networks, not hierarchy.
- You don’t have to be a big manufacturer to make a big impact on your local economy and on your own livelihood.
- Support local businesses.
- Small businesses have always been the major economic development drivers in this country.
- Follow your passion. Connect to what makes you happy. Life is too short to waste time and energy worrying and lamenting about what you don't have.
- Create it out of your own passion.
Beth Davis Contact Information
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beth@dakotaresources.org
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