LESSONS LEARNED ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Best Tips for Starting Entrepreneurs (Entrepreneur Advice 2018)

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So for you guys I thought this time I'll make a video about the things I've learned when I started entrepreneurship

It's been around three to four months right now and I've learned a lot

I made a lot of mistakes and I'll show it to you guys in a minute

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which was a huge mistake that I made. I think maybe the first two months of doing entrepreneurship is shiny object syndrome

And you might have heard of this, but it's actually exactly as it sounds

You see something, it shines so pretty, so what do you want to do with it

You want to go to it. You want to see it. You want to touch it. Well, the same is with business

When you're just starting, you have so much energy and you want to do everything

So every new thing you learn and that comes up. across your path you want to jump into and i had the same thing i started out with the blog

because i wanted to do affiliate marketing there i started out with amazon fb a i started out with

shopify and then besides that i tried to run this youtube channel and i tried to run facebook and it's just

too much and my tip number one is to focus uh currently i'm i've got rid of the blog post

because it was too much work currently just focusing on amazon fbbaa

and personal branding. Those are the two main focus points. And once I started focusing

I started gaining more revenue. I started gaining more followers. It just went way easier

So please avoid Shiny Object Syndrome because I think every entrepreneur starts out with it

but you just don't have to get stuck with it for a long time because it will just hurt your business

The second thing, which I told you I'm busy with, but I started out a few weeks ago with personal branding

and personal branding, basically a summary of what it is, you start documenting everything you do

and you start creating like a following who like to follow you and like to see the stuff that you make

So I actually only started with YouTube and as you guys know, I travel a lot currently

And I think the first three months of YouTube, I haven't posted a single video of my life of traveling and working

I also didn't do anything on Instagram. I didn't show you guys my stories or what I did doing the day

And once I started doing this which was like two weeks ago I started gaining massive amounts of views massive amounts of comments of of replies So it wasn even that extra work because I just document what I do

And it's just not much work and it's working so well. So my tip number two is to really invest into personal branding and start documenting what you do

because it's not extra work and it's so valuable. So do it

The third tip I can give to you, which I did a lot at start, is that I was

was overthinking everything. For example, take Amazon FBA. I took so long to find a good

product and I kept thinking like, okay, is this the perfect logo? Is this the perfect name

Is this the perfect product? And maybe I want something else. And I just got stuck in there for

too long. And what I've learned is you just got to start and you got to figure the things

out once you get along. So it's good to think about stuff and to think about what is a good

product and what is not, but just jump into it and start learning on the way because you'll lose a lot of time

If you don't do that and my advice, just do it. Don't overthink. And besides, in the end

you will figure out that the things that used to worry you maybe aren't that big of a problem

So make sure you don't overthink. Number four, and it's basically just a travel related issue I

had, but it might be important to you two to have it. But at the start, I didn't have a buffer of

content and as you know I make YouTube videos I had a blog I have to post

Instagram post every time and it would have been so much easier if I had some

buffer so a few videos a few photos which I had in the scheduler for the times

that if I didn't have time to work on anything or I didn't have good Wi-Fi

I could just use my buffer so you can upload consistently you know and now I just

I didn't have a big buffer and because of that I felt in a rush to create something sometimes

and therefore I couldn't enjoy some locations more. So if I had a buffer and I would be somewhere on an amazing beach and I would have wanted

to enjoy that then I would have used my buffer and just enjoy that, you know

so I didn't have to put that work into it at that time

So buffer is always good. What programs can you use? I personally use Buffer

It's a bit ironic, but yes, because Buffer is an amazing tool to upload on social media

and to schedule your post. And it's actually free up to a certain amount

For me, it's still free. So it's a really good tool. So check it out

I'll leave a link below. And good luck. The fifth tip I can give to you is to read relevant articles or books or news items

Because at the beginning, I was so busy with doing and just throwing myself in there and start to learn a lot, which was really good for me because I got shit done very fast

But a couple of months ago, I started reading relevant books as well and started watching a lot of YouTube videos that were related to my field of work

And because I read those books, such as crushing it from Gary V. or the four-hour work week, you get so much insights which will really help you

develop new business ideas, it just helped me a lot. So I would recommend jump at least

like one hour a day consuming content and start learning because it really helps you

and especially books really help me very well. I personally use Audible, it's audiobooks. I

discovered that reading is just not the thing for me I store information in my head way easier when I hear things So I use Audible I leave a link below as well

It's a very cheap platform of Amazon. Of course, I'm an Amazon junkie

But it's really good tool. And you get like one audiobook a month

and it's just really awesome. So I would recommend you to check it out

And also just use YouTube, because YouTube is free, and you can consume so much data

data number six is kind of something that a lot of people maybe already know but a lot of people

also don't know what I hear from people who start business they try to find an easy way to earn

money and what I got to tell you is there is no easy way to get money you always need to hustle you

always need to work your damn ass off I figured out that in the times where I booked my most

successes were in the times where I worked my ass off. So, and at the time where I was relaxing a bit more on the beach, I saw that in my results

So to get success, you need to hustle and don't just think that it comes easy to you

You have to work so freaking hard, but you know, it doesn't feel like work when it's your passion

So make sure that you love doing what you do, find a niche that you're really excited about

and then it doesn't feel like work, but hustle. Number seven of the lessons I've learned is to surround yourself with the people who understand you

I know that there are a lot of viewers of this YouTube video who are expecting me to fail

who are actually waiting for me to fail. If you focus on those people, because it will be a lot of people who think that, like, what are you doing

You have no subscribers, you have no following. If you focus on these people, it can bump you out

And there are also a lot of people who are supporting me and they understand that I'm doing what I love most

So I rather focus on those people and I would recommend this to you guys as well

Surround yourself with people who get it and then you'll be much more effective, much more happier

And that reflects on your work. So definitely do that and the haters

Number eight is freaking out too soon. What I mean by this, when you start out, your

Insecure as . So what do you do when you're insecure? You keep watching every comment, every like, monitoring every few on YouTube and you do this every like 15 minutes or maybe even every five minutes because you really want to know if things work. What that creates is that you'll start to freak out once you don't have as much likes as you used to have and you start to think about, oh, was this content bad? Was this bad timing

what did I do, you know? What I discovered is that you shouldn't freak out because usually it could be

something holiday related or it was just coincidence that people all at once didn't

went on Instagram for a second or something. So my advice, don't freak out too soon, only freak out

when it's consistently. If you like for one month, didn't gain as much likes as you used to have

then you might freak out a bit, but then try to change your content

But really don't freak out if like the past free videos or free posts or whatever you do

don't have as much engagement because you'll see in the end your fourth or fifth post will pick up again

and you see that you didn have anything to worry about So don freak out Also an example which I have I received an email of Amazon FBA that I should remove my listing

And that freaked me out so much because I invested so much money into it

But what turns out, I freaked out. So I messaged them and I was like, I couldn't think the whole day because I was like

what the is going on? But what turned out, I had to remove one product of the 500 products I had

So if I didn't freak out, I wouldn't have to worry. And there was nothing to be freaked out of

So that's an example. Just don't freak out. Just wait it out and you'll be okay

Number nine is to stay updated. What do I mean by this

Keep following the news which is relevant for your business. As you might know, I made a huge change

I started investing a lot of time in Instagram. And the only reason for this is that a new update has gone by

Maybe you know it. It's called Instagram TV. and Instagram TV might be the new YouTube and YouTube might die

That's it's a possibility. If I didn't read this news and I would go on with YouTube and YouTube turned out to be dead

I would be screwed. So keep following the news and start adapting your business to this news

You can see that I did it. I invest a lot of times in Instagram. By the way, if you're interested in following my Instagram, click on the link below because

I'll need new followers and I'm investing a lot of time of it and you can also follow me on my travel journey, which you might like

But yeah, try to stay updated and try to adapt your business around this

If this means that you have to go straight 180 degrees, the other way around, that might be a possibility

But you wouldn't know if there's no news and you would find out too late and you'll just ruin your business

So stay updated. So the last tip I can give to you is ytics

What do I mean by this? Of course, ytics, but I invested a lot of money into advertising

Facebook advertising, Google AdWords, everything. There are a lot of campaigns who didn't give me a lot of money

didn't give me profits, didn't give me likes, but still, it's not failing and why you can use the data you had to create new campaigns

For example, if I had a campaign focused on like 100 keywords on Google

your ytics can show you which 10 or 20 keywords were converting for you and maybe the other 80 didn't convert

but now in your new campaign you can only focus on the 20 ones that converted so spending money

actually losing money on advertising or anything is good once you have ytics so make use of

ytics it's really important and it can really boost your business so make sure to do that and with that

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