Get Help To Start Your Business in 2022

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up to so welcome everyone to our fifth town hall for this discord channel a channel that we are building to ensure that entrepreneurs can help entrepreneurs be successful and ensure that no entrepreneur feels alone as they build their business and that the stupid questions can be asked here and that anybody who wants to start a business can come here and get the help they need for free someone once said to me it's give and take simon and i always feel like it's actually give without take if we can actually help people without any expectation of anything in return i think we've won and so that's a big part of what this discord channel is about yes we all have businesses yes we all need to make a living but i've noticed already in just the five weeks since we started this channel how amazingly generous everybody has been here giving knowledge and insights contacts and even personal time to people on this channel and for that i'm incredibly grateful i had five texas today from people who i respect entrepreneurs in the global ecosystem of entrepreneurs saying how much this discord channel has helped them and what a great initiative it is and what we're doing here i think can make a big difference we are the first entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs discord channel and i hope that we can make this something really useful for everyone in the long term so i'm live right now on tik tok and i am also recording this for people to listen to later in this discord channel that couldn't make it i'd love it if anyone wants to come up we're going to talk about 2022 plans your plans your i guess new year's resolutions if you've managed to stick to them and understand a little bit about what you need from this channel i'm always uh open and want to hear from you directly the community as to what you need this channel to do for you and just before if you want to come up and say hello put your hand up and uh and please just hit the i think it's the raise hand button then i can bring you up on stage and um in the meantime i'll just mention we have secured a sponsor tied banking who have kindly offered to support us in creating three webinar events that are absolutely free for everybody here on discord and any entrepreneur needs help and that webinar content is basically everything you need to know about instagram we've brought three experts on that know everything there is to know about instagram same for tick tock and um and same for linkedin so we've brought experts on board that will share what they know about linkedin tick tock and instagram absolutely free with you guys and we will be putting the links in fact i think they already are in the events calendar links in the discord channel we put them up there today so that's very exciting we're we're getting support from organizations like tide they're also giving away 50 pounds if you sign up for an account which if you're thinking of opening up a business or you have a business and you need a bank account one of the biggest troubles is actually opening up a bank account and so they're giving 50 pounds away normally they give 50 pounds affiliate to the person that gets you to sign up so in other words if we recommend hide we would get 50 pounds but we've asked them to give that to you so that's what they're doing so if you sign up you get 50 pounds and i probably should put terms and conditions on there because it's all banking stuff but but from outside we uh we're excited to have organizations supporting us in this initiative to help people get knowledge that they need for free to start and grow a business so webinars on everything about linkedin tiktok and instagram absolutely free in the events calendar channel if you if you want to uh go check them out i personally made a video five ideas that will help you if you don't have an idea or you want some new ideas on which way you could take your business i'm making youtube content this year to help people start and grow businesses and one of them was giving people ideas and a few people on this discord channel have actually run with those ideas and started businesses around them which is very exciting and very that makes it all worth it when you create content that's actually really useful to people so okay so um these town halls can be short or long depending on how you guys uh feel i actually had food poisoning uh yesterday so i'm not a hundred percent today um but i'm so i'll stay here for as long as you guys want to chat the plans this discord channel this year are going to be shaped by you myself and talia who's in the audience and aj who's in the audience we we're working on things that we think will bring value to you but you must tell us if there's things that you need so things like the webinars we know people want to know more about how to use instagram and tick tock and linkedin but if there's anything you want to know let us know we did a talk last night on crowdfunding and how that works and so um that recording will be released today hopefully i know some of you in the audience were here for that yesterday already but if you guys have any questions about fundraising we will be bringing experts in on that too so um i think now this i would love to hear from you guys i'd love to hear what your 22 22 plans are and if there's anything that you need from this discord channel so if you do have any questions or you need anything you can please put up your hand and remember it's being recorded so we now have 780 entrepreneurs on this channel so although not everyone can make an 8 30 p.m slot um this recording will go out to everybody later so just keep that in mind um it's it's not a closed group this will be shared later as a recording so yeah if anyone wants to come up and say hello and share their 22 plans um just click the raise hand button and i'll bring you up on stage and i can see that nathan is here so nathan how you doing i can hear what's going on uh um i was just working on the lemon launch the guinness world record thing so i've been learning that's why i've been learning a lot about like the 3d designing and getting ready for that and i made a game for the it kind of represents like what i'm going to be doing in the guinness world record which is launching the slingshots and the lemons and so i designed a game since a lot of the people are going to be virtually watching so that they can kind of participate with that and i learned it through with unity so i could kind of get a head start on all that's going to be going on in the metaverse so excited about that and if just throwing that out there if anybody has any questions about that or just kind of the basics of that then i'm always here to help in the chat and also if you're going to be um i know you have the entrepreneur house and probably going to be doing some stuff with the metabours so if you want help um kind of modeling that because i've been working on the modeling of the 3d eden i've gotten pretty good at that over the past month so if you need help with that then i'll be happy to help too wow that's really kind of you thank you so much and for those listening we're launching a product called entrepreneur house and the idea is that a lot of people want to start a business but they need to pay rent and pay for their food so we'll be providing free accommodation free food to people somewhere to stay and network so that they can start a business and then we'll bring in mentors and and so on and then hopefully we'll film it all so that those that are in the house can can of course learn but also share what they learn with the outside world too so but nathan definitely sounds really exciting what you're doing and i definitely would love to get your health help with with uh entrepreneur house and the metaverse and what what do you need is anything you you need from from the community how can we support you um really the only thing is just getting the word out about the uh the guinness world records because like what i'm trying to do is like as a lot of people in here know i help people like entrepreneurs create their websites and then monetize it with affiliate marketing so i'm i've gotten a lot of different entrepreneurs on board that have been on their podcast or i've helped them in different ways and so we have a good number of entrepreneurs that will be viewing the event and i've gotten a lot of them to kind of give some free resources for the entrepreneurs that will be listening so just getting the word out about the uh the event that's in march so i'll give some more details i can shoot that in our discord area yeah if you put the link to uh to the uh guinness world record attempt or the details of it um put it in introduce yourself then we'll make sure that you know we share it i mean i would like to see um in this community people can we should create a channel in the future where people do a tweet for example we could all retweet it and just if we believe in it and we want to but trying to help each other get get you know get support and notice for things like this but is it an official guinness world record you've got guinness uh folks involved yeah it is i've been in contact with their representatives the past couple of months so it's gonna be it's an official thing great well i said mentioned to you i'm actually live on tick tock at the moment as well and uh someone tam one of my community members there just mentioned that she'd help you with marketing so that's very kind um but yeah drop it into the introduce yourself section when you've got the details and and we'll all try to support you on that and just to say thank you for offering your support with your knowledge that's really cool thank you thank you so much and uh rhodus are you there i'm here can you hear me yeah i can hear you uh i i saw your lovely post today and really really appreciate your kind words about this community and we were very proud to have you as one of the top five founders to watch this month you're doing an amazing job thank you you know i was really i was really excited when i saw the post as well um yeah and i've got a lot of people messaging me um from seeing post and yeah small winners 2022 is what i call it that's very exciting no for those again listening that don't know we every month we pretty much scan the world for entrepreneurs we think are doing really cool stuff and really innovative purpose-driven things and so um and then we highlight them in five founders to watch this month and rhodus was one of those founders so for those who don't know what you're up to do you want to quickly share yeah so um i'm working on my startup called spruce um which is an app that lets you book mobile barbers and then the bible will arrive to your location in a mobile barbershop so it's an early stage startup um i'm working on a few things in the background um as you know with a sponsorship from the brands um but yeah that's essentially what i'm doing right now and is there anything you need from the community at this moment um well i wanted to talk to you about what i'm you know what my goal is i'm pretty sure you know i've told you this before um so my goal for 2022 is obviously to build my my personal brand and i'm currently working on um you know working on my youtube channel so i'm going to launch that soon um but yeah what one thing i wanted i was doing in the background is um i'm trying to secure sponsorship for my youtube channel i've got a few sponsors already um but i'm looking for well i'm gonna launch my patreon basically um to see if i can get some sponsors through that um and yeah i was thinking to ask you if it would be possible for you to be like a main sponsor on the channel i uh i can't say yes to that without knowing more information i think sponsorship of youtube channels is a bit weird just because normally what youtube's about is you create amazing content and then that content get you know is popular and then you make money from the youtube ad system so that that's traditionally the youtube model i mean i can definitely give you some tips on youtube i've been obsessed by it for the last two years um and and i went personally from zero subscribers to 6 000 in 12 months so um it is but you know it is it is normally about that it's normally about you creating really good content um only the likes of mr beast i guess making the videos themselves tend to get sponsors but what sort of outside of us i mean what sort of sponsor you actually wanting um well what what do you mean by like what type of sponsors am i once it do you have a particular profile sponsor you're after like you might say you say us but but why what's what's the content yeah no that's that's a okay um so the main purpose of the channel is is it's not anything specific like fitness or um business it's more it's more to just inspire people so michael i'm starting a fitness journey for myself and so i want to document my fitness journey and also my business journey as well um and so yeah i haven't really written out any um specific criteria for sponsors but uh there are seven ones that i would never you know work for with like implement companies and stuff like that i wouldn't do but um yeah i think any business that that kind of it fits with what i'm trying to do wouldn't work i haven't really done any specific um criteria yeah okay well yeah i mean i would try and link your youtube channel to your new business if i was you just because you don't want two separate things going on i mean fitness being successful building a business i think it will go hand in hand but if you if you should write up a list i mean i i've spoken to every fortune 500 company you know and got a deal off them at least once in my career and and they're all quite uh straightforward actually you you know what do they get if they and what do you want from them so as i just mentioned ty just sponsored our webinars right so what do they get they get to be associated with something that's good useful for entrepreneurs in their network and supporting our network right so there's there's there's a payoff for them to to support putting those together right so i think you just need to think about it i mean the fitness channels and your own personal journey fitness channel there's two ways to go around some sponsorship of something like that i would say you either get traction and sponsors come to you or you try your luck but it's quite a hard sell with no huge traffic numbers and um but you can go to people like i know peleton the fitness machine company and and see if they'll sponsor your equipment and stuff like that i've just built a gym at entrepreneur house here so you know i i know the process peliton will respond and they will say yes or no but you know you need to make a list basically that's my recommendation to you make a list of people that you think would would sponsor you and then make sure that like you just said there they align with your values and and then maybe figure out what they're going to get what the value to them is and what the value to you is and then if you're going to align those two things then then you stand a chance of getting sponsorship yeah i was thinking to reach out to jim shark um an average up i haven't got a response yet but maybe i should hit them up again again you know you've got to understand um most of those companies are doing things at scale and i you know i know ben francis very well i've interviewed him on my podcast show you know the these these guys uh they're they're working on very high level activities now that doesn't mean to say that they won't support you they definitely could but i think i would work a little bit more on your proposition if it's just sponsored my youtube channel and then you know you don't even have a proper working you know youtube channel um it might be hard for them to say yes even if they want to support you you need to show you know you need to show what your roadmap is you need to show your value and how that's going to you know frankly pay off it's not just money element of people like jim shark it's their time if they spend time um supporting you that's paperwork that's that's all that's that's that's their team involved that's all cost them money forget the finances that means something else they're not doing because they're spending time working on your your you're supporting you right so just keep it in mind but i i i people used to always say to me or you can't get those sponsors you they won't sponsor you and they have so you know you definitely should try but i would suggest to you that you try to align it with your business so that it's not a separate channel doing separate things i mean you could tie the two together by building your business and and building your youtube channel and i do see a good youtube channel around your business idea you know you're helping potentially people and you know get back to work if coverts affect their affected their their business and you're creating a product that people need because they don't have time and you're saving people time so there's there's a whole thing you can do around that and youtube i think definitely that is definitely the plan um i think right now because of um how early it is and that's why i mentioned i want to start off by documenting kind of my fitness journey first but obviously as the business um progresses um i definitely want to document the business side of things more um and that's why i say like the youtube channel is not anything specific um i wouldn't you know i wouldn't accept sponsorship from like supplement companies um because i don't want to give off the impression that it's a fitness channel or anything like that but yeah yeah again um once you have your strategy sorted out it's probably a good idea i just i just invested in a supplement business called heights and they make supplements to help to nourish people's brains and is different heights is um more to do with the brain so i would definitely do something with heights but um in terms of these bodybuilding supplements i know what you mean yeah i know what you mean i understand i guess just bring something with you for a second there you know just to you know maybe break it down a little bit because when you make sweeping statements like that it might be someone in the audience that would misunderstand and then not sponsor you right so just just keep it a bit more um you know a bit be a bit more clear on what you what you want but i like you saying no to things by the way i've just put my personal opinion i'm starting to give you advice now but i like when people say they don't want something that's quite good you know your moral code that's great look um when you've is your youtube channel up and running it's not so i think it might be a case of like things being kind of early because um yeah i think what i'm going to be working on over the next couple of weeks is um launching my business by my youtube channel and um as you said have a bit more clear proposition for what type of content i'm going to be creating and um say i haven't got a youtube channel just yet yeah well it's very easy to set up a youtube channel and what you need is a hundred subscribers so you can like for example on my youtube it's youtube.com simon squib but i wouldn't have been able to get simon squib unless i had a hundred subscribers so what you can do is you can just open up the youtube channel and then ask your friends and family and some people in this community to subscribe to your channel once you get 100 subscribers you can register it in your name you can do that right now i'm sure between this group and and uh your friends and family you can get a hundred people to click that subscribe button and then you have control and the ability to create a branded youtube channel so don't wait for that you can do that straight away definitely i'll get that done tomorrow great all right well it's good to hear from you and again thanks for your nice comments on social media today my whole team we shared it on our internal whatsapp group and it made us all feel like we were doing something purposeful so thank you very much for that appreciate you doing that for us now you're welcome thank you for for you know uh publishing me and um yeah thank you of course uh arnold i love arnold thank you i'm dyslexic and i just i can't read names i totally get you yeah no but i i now i won't forget it next time what's going on mate how can we help you what's what's new um no i don't think i need help uh right now um i just decided to come up and chat um i've been a part of this group for some time i've been bleeding and sniffing around but i've never participated in anything so this is my first time jumping in um and yeah so um i guess i should start with my goals for 2022. yes please yeah and thanks for jumping up on stage and saying hello i appreciate that and it's good to get to know you i've seen you in the group so that's that's great and yeah do tell us what your goals are and what you're up to yes so um last year i opened my production company it's called aki studio london and i teamed up with a script competition to give the winner money to produce their short film and on the side of that i'm also creating my own little studio editing studio on my back garden for other creators to come and use um with a podcast room and whatnot and i'm building it myself um that's the type of person i was like diy like you know get my hands dirty type of person so um yeah so in a month i'll be trying to build that basically obviously with help not by myself that's great i've also had a similar idea i was just looking at a studio in london to to to take that everyone could come and use um i think it's really needed where are you based so i'm in camden caledonian road area right yeah and um i have enough space i have quite a few of the material ready um i've got a building contractor who's a close friend of mine so i decided hey let's do it together so we're going to start hopefully soon as i just going to notify the council to let them know i'm building something and just start um so right now i'm just researching on audio equipment sound proofing um just to get the most out of the space i have yeah if i can help you with that i've kitted out three studios now so um yeah if i can help you with that at all i mean it's it's it's the equipment side of it is always evolving anyway but the um yeah that's cool i actually have a place in belsius park which is just up the road from camden of course um okay so um yeah if i can uh i'm in i mean i'm actually at the moment that entrepreneur house this this place i'm building in tunbridge wells so um but i'm often in that area so i could i definitely could come and check it out when it's done and and maybe even use it that would be cool yeah that would be awesome and um once it's set up i do want to do something um with a with this um discord channel and hopefully offer a free try to everyone just to come see it use it have fun with it you know that's that's what i love about business as a whole is the collaborative aspect it's just exciting and just fun and just watching other people create it's just it's enjoyable that's awesome man i couldn't agree more as well yeah and uh be careful what you offer though there's 780 people that might turn up um but that's awesome no that's really great and i think i think is is this going to be is this like a side project for you is it this this part of it that the studio so um thing is we're making short films and making films in general there isn't that much money to be made out of it um so i i'm building the studio to fund short films feature films and hopefully expand the actual filmmaking side of the business um and also to fund me to live and continue doing what i enjoy um it's the idea of the studio and possibly i might expand the studio as i go on um but that's the main reason i'm creating it for well um that that's just awesome and again you've introduced yourself i think in the in the chat before right but just keep us informed and once once you have your social set up or any of those things do let us know and i'm sure we'll all like it and and support you and and uh yeah it's a great idea and uh excited for you cool thank you looking forward to it yeah thanks for coming up on stage and saying hello good to know you thank you gemma nice to see you how's it going evening can you hear me we can yeah hello a bit of a random question for you tonight um what have you got any thoughts or okay i guess info on the recruitment sector and experience or uh i've used recruiters personally and um i i actually helped start two recruitment companies on the branding and marketing side but what what do you what do you need to know exactly can you can you be a bit more specific um yeah i'm looking to start my own but i don't know if i'm just being a little bit crazy because i've not actually got any recruitment experience whatsoever apart from being recruited previously in my lifetime at some point but i've just i've been having a look around and you know i know i mentioned i was thinking about personal branding but there's just some things that i don't feel that are morally right for me like how you upsell people and it's just not ticking all the boxes and i've been kind of scooting around researching and then i had an idea and i've had a research on that and it seems there's not that many companies in the uk that specialize in it and and i've had a listen on podcasts i've been searching for recruitment podcast this evening when my daughter wasn't swimming and it's just they're just all so boring sorry if anyone runs one but i've just like i was just like god i just don't feel alive and i'm listening to him there's just i wasn't getting anything from him i skimmed through about 20. i thought it seems like there's a bit of a gap for maybe someone like me to go into that and so my idea anyway so to give you a bit of perspective i i mean i i'll go ahead sorry for you to stop go ahead sorry i don't know if it's you can't hear me probably yeah we can yeah we can on the headphones okay okay um it's a recruitment agency that specializes in neurodivergent people so people that have adhd autism dyspraxia dyslexia and literally a recruitment agency that focuses on the creative parts of those people and gets them either into employment or into a role that actually ticks all the boxes for them um another side to it obviously is expanding the knowledge in businesses around the positive benefits of recruiting someone as creative as a brain you know as adhd brings it like so one of the most creative people in the planet you know informing those and training those up so there's a few aspects to the business that i can add but i it's like i can do all the technical stuff i can get started all you know i can probably tick the box on getting all the accreditations should i wish and but i just don't know enough about the sector to be like right i'm just going to go all in i don't know if maybe i'm taking too much of it well my opinion and anybody else that has any experience with recruitment is welcome to come up and give some advice to gemma because i actually do have quite limited experience on recruitment other than having helped someone else start a recruitment company or two but i i think uh i think there's always room for something new i completely agree with you by the way you'll find that a lot of people are boring in this space because it is a kind of image thing if you can't be too controversial can you you can't say i mean i'd love the idea of a story of someone that got recruited and it didn't work out or the interview that went wrong or you know those sorts of things would be really interesting but no one wants to talk about those things and keep a recruitment agency brand reputation intact so i guess uh you could be a disrupter in that space and i do also like the focus i'm dyslexic so i can i can relate i just hate cvs and filling out all that stuff so i can see i can definitely see a gap i think you've got to look at it from both sides of the equation right who's your client probably the person who you're helping find a job but also the people that would take those people on and so most of the time the recruitment agencies i've worked for um and when helped build they were very specialized so there were for example in hong kong a company that focused on nothing but getting financial uh lawyers on board for banks so very focused their client were banks that were looking for lawyers and so they were very focused on you know that their clients in their mind the client was actually the person looking for the person they were going to hire if that makes sense yeah i've noticed um obviously you're not targeted with this stuff on on linkedin but um linkedin is kind of really blew up on the whole neurodiversion thing it just obviously i'm targeted with it but it is everywhere and this so i just keep seeing all these comments saying oh i'm i own this business i own this company i really love an adhd brain to come with me i'd really love an autistic brain to come and work for me um and i just keep seeing more and more and more of it and i thought there surely can't be enough companies to keep that up um and i've had a google and uk there's what maybe three or four there's none that actually specialize completely in it just neuro-divergent people and obviously again tick-tock adhd talk is absolutely massive at the minute it was brought to light in the media about eight weeks ago and it was in the papers and the radio and that how there's a mass of um undiagnosed men and women discovering that you know they've got they've been diagnosed with say anxiety and depression the whole life they've got to 30 and 40 and found out it wasn't actually that it's just the neurodivergent so it just seems to be getting bigger and bigger from what i can see and i of want to jump on the bandwagon before i miss it because i have a very bad habit of doing that my sense is there's definitely something in it but i wonder if you can do a minimum viable product first i don't know if this is the right idea but something like go to google and say are they looking for these types of people and if so what's the criteria and that's one way to go or you go the other way and you you try and get two or three people on board and then figure out their career paths what they've done what you know what what's worked what hasn't and help them find the perfect job yeah there's lots yeah i mean sometimes i was just kind of putting my idea out there sounds like a really good idea to me but i don't know enough about recruitment itself the actual you know the legal implications of recruitment but but the actual process is pretty straightforward isn't it someone's looking for work and you help them find it or a company's looking for certain people and you help find them you know it's not it's not rocket science the key is of course the databases both sides right so that's that's the key in that industry in my view and uh yeah so um the recruitment companies i've i've i've worked with that's been their niche they've had a very clear idea who their client is and they've got that demand from the client side yeah and and then they've gone out there and found those people because they know once they find them they'll get paid so uh maybe but you use the other side you could probably this i mean as i'm dyslexic i'm not looking for a job but if i was having someone that understands my weaknesses and my strengths and then going out there and finding a job that's going to make me happy sounds sounds pretty interesting i agree with you i don't see anyone pitching that as a dyslexic person i get hit up all the time on linkedin recruiters all the time uh but i you know i never really see anyone that's specialized in this area it's just sometimes it's not necessarily an area that i see someone like google advertising for and i hear you and you say people are asking for that but i would question that hypothesis i i would like to speak to a company that actually really wants that and find out why because what is it exactly they want from that person because all dyslexic people are different for example right yeah i think it's i was kind of going out from a diverse kind of point of view how companies are becoming more diverse and are wanting diversity i mean for example when i was a police officer 15 years ago they really publicized the fact that they wanted to recruit women and people from the asian community and that they were allowed to do that because they knew that there was you know there wasn't enough people from those communities working as police officers so it's kind of like companies are now wanting more diverse people in their business and yeah it may be a box to connect exercise from high above or i guess for someone like me to be able to find someone to put them in a job there's more purpose in it which is my word of the year this is why i'm heading this way [Music] i'm just trying to find something more purposeful to do than just you know blabbing my mouth on off and take top talking but i could start a business i'm just trying to find something that'll make me feel more better about myself nice i get it this was one of the ideas it's definitely a good idea it's got it's got it's got potential there's definitely a gap i haven't i haven't seen anyone with this focus and you know i would just maybe dig in to having a client or or or or speak to people with with this uh you know use the unique creative skills and and find out if they're happy in their jobs and and how you would find them a job that would make them happy or or i mean most of the time most of these people i know are entrepreneurs because companies won't give them a job i i couldn't i couldn't get a job when i was younger um i've got adhd so i'm talking from experience the issues always tends to be from you know research and actually living it is that we can't stick to a job because there's not enough dopamine being fed day by day you know the boring admin tasks are just like you must just send us home and that's why there's so many people with that jump job to job especially for those in the autistic community because they obviously very they can be i mean rule number one is once you've met someone on the spectrum you've met one person on the spectrum literally every single obviously person personality is different but there's certain like qualities and traits that make us really good leaders in certain things but fail in other things and that's why the education of like going to educate businesses on maybe if you could create a position that would be you know it's really easy for a neurodivergent brain that kind of non-narrows which finds quite hard that's another interesting website that's another angle i agree a lot of entrepreneurs that's another angle that's another angle to go in by the ways which is go and speak to the google recruitment guys and say that you know you know could you create roles for these types of people to create creative thinking within their business which they're always trying to do right um just be interested to see what they said you know but anyway there's definitely something in it keep brainstorming i i i see something forming there which is pretty pretty interesting i i still think diversity in general hasn't been covered off by recruitment agencies i mean there's a lot of recruitment agencies that that have added it on to tick a box but they weren't born from a diversity point of view and they weren't they weren't born to deal with diversity on a board level i've seen a few companies doing board level diversity but i haven't seen it in a general workplace um which you know that's that's a story right sad story i mean yeah i mean it's a sad story i mean i i invested in a company called voxo recently in their their whole thing is about training women to be able to sit on panels because it's kind of self-fulfilling not enough women sit on panels if you have discussions about certain subjects you can often see on these panels of five people there's often you know four men five men right so they they they train women to be on these panels and once they get on the panels they get noticed and get on more panels but there's so that's what they're focusing on diversity within a panel environment right events and so on and um i think i think there's definitely there's still a big problem there they're doing well they're solving a big problem just with diversity on panels you know not even diversity in the workplace well thank you lots i won't take more there's more people waiting so i won't take much time but thanks so much for all that help and i have a lot of thinking to do always nice to see you here gemma thanks for all your contributions you're welcome see you soon and i think next up is demo are you there hi simon hey how are you i'm good how are you i'm good thanks what's going on thank you first and foremost i would like to thank you because you are creating an amazing community where everyone could be entrepreneur and and i've been following you very very closely quite some time now um so thank you very much for that hard work that you're putting into thanks for your kind words thanks yeah i've got a few um kind of like business ideas uh some of them i would like to speak if it's possible offline but um one of the the the ones that i do have right now is would like to set up a digital agency who works with specific clients from the middle east um and try to just introduce businesses in west and canada and america and i've been looking and i've been doing a lot of research i haven't come across anyone else running that so that is one of the ideas and it depends on what type of the business that we're going to be closing so there's a lot into so you're thinking it's i'm not sure i understood it 100 but it's an agency that connects the middle east to the rest of the world you mean yeah and and this is a creative agency what what's the main it's more like certain businesses uh for it could personally i'm targeting influencers because they have got quite huge numbers in the middle east which do want to do some businesses with the kind of like western companies so you're helping influencers get connected to america for example and and promote products in the middle east okay yeah yeah yeah i i had a company in hong kong called fluid and we we used to do some of that too we used to connect brands to chinese influencers to get them to promote um western brands in china and so yes it's a huge opportunity i think it's i'm surprised no one's already doing it and if they're not there you should definitely jump on that yeah so because i didn't know that you had that business so that's very interesting and because i'm sales manager that's what what i do nine to five in a in a premium brand so i already got some of the clients uh even some uk vip clients were if if it's like in terms of the support and all of that or the clientele it's not a problem for me to build the clientele because i'm building the database now the people that i need to target it's just the amount of having the right guidance and and how to save the funding etc but in terms of getting the clients i've got like like some big names as well in the middle east that's going to connect me to to the to the right people yeah that's great i mean don't let money stop you don't let it slow you down because the agency business the great thing is you can take a 50 deposit for any bookings you get and if and it's not like you're having to pay out for a product you know you you have a an influencer who's a partner and then you know you you charge 50 to the brand and then you share that revenue with the influencer is cash flow quite positive you don't need lots of money you just need lots of clients okay so in terms of the a lot of clients like what would you say like what would be the minimum well i mean one one good paying clients not a bad start a client that actually wants to break into the middle east and wants to use your service to to do it so that's it it's all you need initially probably to cover your salary so you can quit that job okay that's that's pretty cool but to be honest you can get a client before you quit your job you can get a client and you don't need to wait to raise money for something like this i mean my agency i owned 100 it's just huge cash flow positive you know you just get you sign up a client my first client was cnn actually um and they wanted to get into china more so you know then they they paid us to to get into china more you know that's it they pay this 50 deposit and and once you've got that 50 deposit often that 50 is your cost and then the 50 they pay you finally is your profit so but you can get up and running quite quickly based on that sort of structure okay interesting um but then my other problem is because i haven't done any sort of this type of business before and so in order to have someone just to back you up or have kind of like because people kind of check the credentials of if you're yourself the person who's running the business and there's going to be a lot into it so and because i haven't done businesses before how would that gonna work because you already you had this business before so every business i've ever started personally i just looked the people in the eye and promised them i was going to do it and then i did it so i think sometimes it's a little bit overrated the whole credentials thing if you are sincere and you are going to deliver you just need to look the clients in the eye and say that you always need one client to trust you or take a bit of a risk on you but that's a convincing job and that's no problem i found and maybe initially you could help you've got a job right now so you've got some income may help someone and and get a case study built up so maybe help someone for free maybe you know and then work a month on that one for free and make it work and work with an influencer who's willing to try and help you and and then you know you've got a case study and once you've got one case study that's it you're sorted i wouldn't i wouldn't overplay the whole experience thing energy goes a long way i i've i've discovered with working with companies you know if you promise to deliver and you don't stop until you do and you'll you'll get the reputation you need for other people to trust you in the same way that's my personal experience again if anyone in the audience or anyone on stage has an opinion on this you're welcome to chime in too because my opinion is not the only one uh but you know that's just my my experience with your with this type of business your type of business is sometimes just you know heart and soul people believe and then and people will then trust you and then away you go but you can get one case study under your belt won't hurt okay i'll definitely do that and follow the steps that you said thank you very much my other one would be in terms of the entrepreneur house is there any setting requirement to to have to in order to get yeah so we won't actually be up and running with entrepreneur house until probably uh july august and internally we're still we're still trying to decide um the criteria so nothing yet i'll let you know as soon as we've decided and all that okay thank you very much i appreciate your time you're welcome good luck with it are you based in the middle east are you based in the uk yeah i am based in the uk yeah kingston okay cool all right good good to know it's nice to chat to you thank you for your kind words as well appreciate it thank you very much so um i think next up is pim are you there yes i am can you understand me just fine yeah we can what's up alright so i just recently joined the discord because i found out to be about you from the father and son podcast oh great and i listened for like five minutes and i was like i need to find his instagram i need to get on his project because he seems very inspiring and so that's why i came here because i wanted to get my business up and running because it's non-existent at the moment and i would like you to ask yourself a few questions sure how to get it started yeah sure no problem are you are you an arsenal football player was that just someone else's profile picture i wish i was arsenal football player no i'm not patrick fiera i'm afraid okay no problem yeah sure let us know how we can help you aj i noticed you went back to the audience if you wanted to come back and answer or help with any of the questions you are welcome back up mate but go ahead pim what what do you need um well you're alive on tech talk so i won't go into detail because the business idea i have is not safe for work and i don't want to get you demonetized or anything oh okay but i was sending a few emails to businesses who are in this niche and i also got some help with the emails from nathan but i haven't heard back from those emails is it better to just contact businesses using like the phone so you can directly talk to them directly get feedback yeah so uh my take on sales is quite intricate but i basically say to you that because you send one email you don't get a reaction it's not that's not the end of it of course you gotta i would say don't send long emails don't especially for your intro email people just don't have time to read it someone sent me a message today on on twitter and literally it's like 18 pages i no one's got time to read that even if i want to which i do i want to help people i have not got time to read an 18 page document so first of all just check your email make sure it's nice and short sweet and to the point and if it's not then maybe send a follow-up email that is and then email is also a bit annoying and so i would suggest that you look at other methods find out where those people that you're wanting to talk to are active so i'm here for example it's much better you come and tell me what you're up to here then you send me an 18 page message on twitter what that actually is it's easier for that person to copy and paste that message into my twitter then come here and and do it right so they're not doing it to help me they're doing it to help themselves and i think that's something you've got to bear in mind if you want to reach out to people you've got to put yourself in that person's shoes and you've got to understand their time is don't have much of it and so so make sure your pitch is very synced make sure you've done your research on the people you're messaging so you understand what they need not what you need and that might help you get a reaction a better reaction on these messages that you send out but don't just rely on email do go on so some people are very active on twitter for example and you might be able to get a response from them go look at their feeds if they retweet people if they interact right you can go and do a bit of research that way and um yeah and then and know the people you're communicating with and don't just bombard them with what you want and i'll just finally say most deals i've ever done with big brands have happened because of these three steps the first is you like each other and not a lot of people get to know each other enough but it starts selling you know do you like each other the second step is do you need each other have you identified what that person you're selling to actually needs and then identify that what you're offering actually matches their needs right and then the third thing is always easy if you get the first two right if you like each other and you need each other the third one is the price the structure the deal the offer whatever it is but if you've got the first two right you like each other and you need each other never had a problem with the third one in all my career and so that's just something to keep in mind in your in your process of selling uh yes i did make the email quite short i just had a little introduction about like things like my age my aspirations and then i went straight to the point but i just hadn't had a reaction so i think i'm just going to do the direct thing and try your advice from going through twitter looking through what they retweet what they like so i can be more of a co-worker instead of someone who is using them as a step up yeah how old are you can i throw something in there if it's okay of course please yeah please do um what i find helps is events if you can find places where you can actually meet them face to face because i'm horrible with online but face to face i'm much much better and it's easy to build that relationship at least for me because it is really i feel like business is really personal um yeah well said totally yeah i definitely agree and i will also take that into account for the next time yeah pim how old are you i'm 20. yeah why why in an email would you say you're 20. you mentioned earlier opening email as your age why would you say that um kind of to get like a bit of a oh we want him to succeed because he's young i don't know how you say it in english but in dutch we say and that's like you want someone to succeed because you want them to kinda i personally would find that a bit weird in an opening statement in an email um so i don't know i mean it's it's something to think about i mean i'm not sure i personally don't care what the age of someone is i want them to succeed right i mean i don't know if knowing your 20 is going to make any difference other than you know you're showing what you're offering what you want to do for that company or person and that th