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🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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As a lot of you know, I'm extremely passionate about small businesses - from helping grow my dad's wine & liquor store, to launching Vaynermedia as a small business I've lived and breathed this world, which is why I decided to jump in even further to #SmallBusinessWeek and give you some tips to help grow / start / ideate your business regardless of what stage you're in ;)
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0:00.0 | This is the Gary V. Audio Experience. |
0:04.0 | I literally started a very ground level cookie business about a year ago. |
0:15.0 | I literally just did it out of fun. It was a hobby. |
0:21.0 | I was in full-time school for my college of psychology license and unfortunately I went through a divorce. |
0:28.0 | But this cookie business has taken off and has become more than just a hobby. |
0:34.0 | Within less than a year I've gotten about 400 fans just on Facebook. |
0:39.0 | So I'm wondering if I should take it to the next level and kind of get like my LLC and really brand it. |
0:48.0 | And how to kind of go about doing that on a professional level. |
0:52.0 | Well, there is no... Here's what's great about entrepreneurship. |
0:55.0 | There's no amateurs or professional. Like getting an LLC doesn't mean you're professional. |
0:59.0 | There's plenty of people that don't have an LLC that are making tons of money. |
1:03.0 | They should get an LLC when they get to a certain scale for legal and financial purposes. |
1:08.0 | But don't think of this as like graduating until I get an LLC and I take it serious. |
1:13.0 | You've already done the hard part. You actually did something. |
1:16.0 | So are we talking about you make cookies and sell them? |
1:20.0 | I do. They're custom cookies. So it's a basically a sugar cookie which everybody absolutely loves. |
1:26.0 | Yep. And then I cut the cookies. |
1:28.0 | Well, I don't love them because Jordan's sitting here and I don't eat sugar cookies. |
1:31.0 | Tell them Jordan. But I get it. Everybody. |
1:33.0 | Right. And then you design on top of them. Like D-Rock space or something like that. |
1:37.0 | Yeah. Yeah. And it's all hand design and I haven't done anything where I print anything. |
1:42.0 | I get it. And how much are the cookies and how much have you made so far? |
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