160: How to Lay the Foundation of Your Business When It’s Still A Side Hustle (Side Hustle Series Pt 2)
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm sharing how to lay the foundation for your business when it’s still a side hustle. When I started my side hustle, I didn’t read business plan books or follow a business plan template. I just started. Now, I’m sharing the six steps you can take to start building your business as a side hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | Focus on what you are excellent at or you can become excellent at. |
| 0:07.0 | Not what you're just good at because people don't want to pay for just good. |
| 0:10.6 | We want to pay for excellence. |
| 0:12.2 | What would you bring to the table that's not |
| 0:14.4 | currently out there? What do people need? Where is there a gap? Look at the |
| 0:18.9 | products that you currently use too. Look around your house, look around what you use every day, and ask yourself |
| 0:24.8 | what's missing, what's needed. |
| 0:26.6 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:34.3 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to profitable business and I'm your host |
| 0:38.6 | Nakela Matthew Zocome. So let's get started. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey, hey guys, welcome, welcome back to episode two of the Side Hustle series. In this episode, I am talking about how to lay the foundation of your business when it is still a side hustle. |
| 0:58.5 | Yes, still a side hustle, but we're setting up this business. |
| 1:02.0 | Now to be honest, this episode took me a bit longer to outline. |
| 1:06.0 | It took me incredibly long to outline actually because I felt this pressure to have a super buttoned up approach to laying the foundation of your business. |
| 1:15.0 | When the reality is when I started my side hustle, I didn't read business plan books and I didn't follow a business plan template to get started. |
| 1:24.6 | I just started and started to figure things out as I went along. |
| 1:28.8 | And that's not to say I didn't consult, research, learn, and I'm going to talk to you about that process as I get into the |
| 1:34.8 | steps, but I did not go through a by-the-book process. I just did what I |
| 1:39.8 | encouraged everyone to do in the last episode, which is to push past your fear and start |
| 1:45.7 | exploring my interests. |
| 1:47.9 | So I know that some people expect me to talk about business plans and such, but that would not |
| 1:52.4 | be authentic to how I personally |
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