In my recent masterclass Create Your Own Economy I shared something I rarely talk about, how I started my first business when I was just four years old. I started picking wild flowers off the lush backways near my home and selling them to my neighbors. The scariest part was knocking on their doors and offering the flowers for sale, because I was quite a shy kid. But soon after a few successes, I got pretty bold. My inspiration was to make enough money to buy my own candy at the penny candy store. My big mistake was in picking the African Violets off my neighbors property and trying to sell them to her. I thought they were wild but apparently they weren’t. She called my mom and that put the kibosh on my first business.
I did a few things here and there to try to make side money throughout my life, but I was afraid to start my own real business until my early 30s when my boyfriend at the time got me to start designing buttons and t-shirts on the parking lots at Grateful Dead concerts. The scary part about that was that the Dead had these merchandise goons who went around taking the merch off those who they deemed were too competitive with the stuff they were selling inside. Sometimes the cities we went to had harsh anti-vending rules and they would swipe our stuff or arrest people. My boyfriend even wound up in jail in Boston just for selling t-shirts.
After Jerry Garcia died which put the kibosh on that business, I hooked up with a T-shirt printer from tour, and we started cold calling businesses to see if they wanted company T-shirts. We got a lot of business that way but I was too shy to do cold-calling consistently. I tried to get my partner to do it but she hated it too and wound up leaving the business altogether.
After that came the dot.com boom and I made my first website using Microsoft FrontPage. I’ll never forget the feeling when I started attracting folks right from the Internet just from my website. It’s not scary in the least! It’s by far the most relaxing way to attract clients I’ve found, and clients I attract that way are often the ones willing to pay the most.
That’s why I’ve continued creating websites for clients for over 28 years. I simply believe that your website is the best tool you have for attracting and engaging potential clients online. Your site, if it’s a good one, will educate your prospect about your unique perspective and why they should hire you. So by the time they contact you, they’re pretty much sold.
The problem is, most people I speak with don’t have a good website. Often they don’t even know what’s wrong with it, they just know it’s not bringing them clients. So one thing I do is offer to review websites and offer my perspective on what is working, what’s not working, and what needs to happen next to make it wildly attractive to the right clients.
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