Wondering if starting an online business is right for you?

Maybe you’re someone who really wants to help others but you’re not sure of where to get started or even how to get started.

Maybe you’ve seen so many other people doing something similar to what you’re doing but you don’t think that there’s really space for you.

Spoiler alert there’s definitely space for you!

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I want to share with you why right now is the best time and the right time for you to start your online business.

My name is Nicole and I help women grow their service-based businesses using my Start, Grow, Scale Method™ so that they can escape the 9 to 5 trap and create a life of freedom and flexibility for themselves and their families by following their purpose and doing work that they absolutely love.

I want to share a little bit about myself and how I started my online business years ago. 

I was on maternity leave and the time started to quickly come around where I needed to go back to work after being on maternity leave after about six weeks.

I had just recently moved to Los Angeles about a year or so before being on maternity leave and I had a new baby that I didn’t want to leave with just anyone because I didn’t know anyone in the new city I had just moved to. 

I also didn’t know of any good daycare facilities, so it didn’t sit right with me to leave my newborn baby with someone that I didn’t know. This was when I made the decision that I needed to stay home with my newborn.  After making that decision I also knew that I needed to find a way to supplement that income from my full-time job, so I started thinking about the skills I already had.

I thought about my experiences from my past in jobs that I could use to help someone who’s building an online business. At the time, I had no idea what helping someone in their online business would even look like.  I began to search Google and jot down what skills I had and things that I’ve picked up along the way.

My goal was to get back into helping attorneys since that’s where a lot of my experience had come from and knew that there were solopreneurs working that may require support from someone that doesn’t require payroll.

I found my niche – solopreneurs in the legal field.

I began reaching out to different attorneys and paralegals to find out what type of support they required and how I could support them.

My online business was born.

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Taking this step made me visible to other people in different niches who were also looking for support. At the time, I had no idea about the online coaching industry, but I began to receive referrals and interest from people contacting me to ask if I could also help them with their coaching business.

I learned about their business and found out what support they required and learned skills that would benefit me when it came to marketing their online coaching programs and courses.

Along the way, I learned what I needed to know about marketing. My business was born because I used my current skills and experiences and received hands-on experience in other women’s online businesses.

I learned the online coaching industry and what it would take to help others with their marketing and began investing in courses that would advance my marketing skills.

I loved how there was an industry that allowed people to create businesses around what they’re passionate about and having the passion to help others create transformation in their lives.

We can’t do this journey on our own when it comes to growing our business so another investment I made was getting support through a coach that would help with development and mindset strategies.

I  wanted to work on myself to help me grow personally and it’s just been so profound fro me personally and also for my business. 

Since starting my business I’ve helped other women with their marketing strategy and their implementation and I want to now share what I’ve learned throughout the years to encourage and help others who are in those initial stages of starting their own business.

My goal is to support them through what they need to boost their business because I remember what it was like to get started.

Here are 3 strategies you can use to quickly move you in the direction of starting your own online business:

#1: Define your unique selling proposition 

These are your unique set of experiences such as things that you’ve learned in your lifetime or skills that you’ve obtained throughout your life. 

Although someone may have a similar experience or similar skills, there’s really no one that can provide something exactly the way that you can, so your unique selling proposition can be used to help someone else get through a place you once were to get them to where you are now.

Earlier I mentioned my own unique selling proposition using my prior skills, experience, and training in the legal field to start my business.

Share with me in the comments your unique selling proposition. I’d love to hear what that is for you.

Your experience and skills allow you to really help those that are just a few steps behind where you currently are and show them a path to get where you are now .

#2: Get support 

Sometimes we hit mental roadblocks because we’re unclear with how to get started. There are also times when technology will stop us, and for others, there’s also times when we’re stopped in our tracks because we get a little caught up in the day-to-day and don’t always accomplish what we intended to do for the day.

Having someone hold you accountable can really serve as a necessary support tool. An accountability partner will sometimes do the trick, and other times you may need to hire a coach to get more support.

Coaches are really great for many different areas of your business. Some coaches will help you get clarity around what you do as well as helping you with your strategy and implementation.

There are also coaches that will help you go beyond the mental blocks and limiting beliefs that we hold that can sometimes show up in our business and stop us from really creating and building the business that we really desire.

#3: Just Start

There’s no time like the time that you have right now. I’ve seen and had first-hand experienced how fear can get in the way of us creating a life that we really desire.  

We think of all the things that could go wrong before we think of all the things that could go right.  We think of everything that other people might say or think about us, but one thing that I’m reminded of is that we get one life to live, so we should live it exactly the way our hearts and dreams desire.

Every business and everyone starts one step at a time putting one foot in front of the other.  Don’t worry about how many followers you may or may not have, how many people will see your content, or how many likes you get.

Give yourself grace and just start!

Take some time today to take your first step to launch your online business.

If this was helpful for you, please share with me in the comments what resonated the most and what you will do to get started this week.

Be love, be kind, and be blessed.