You may be setting up a solo business or a micro-business. You may be working from home, but that doesn’t mean you need to work alone.
- Find other businesses in the same position as yourself. Talk to their owners. Share knowledge and solutions to problems. You’ll make progress faster as a result.
- Join a networking group, or maybe more than one. This will help you to maintain contact with businesses at all stages of their development. It could also mean you have access to valuable training at minimal cost.
- Find a mastermind group. That is join forces with a several people with whom you will discuss business issues and learn from each other.
What will you gain from this approach?
- You’ll avoid being isolated.
- You’ll keep learning.
- These contacts will help you to keep motivated.
How else will making a point of building your contacts and your support network help you?
Let me know in the comments section and please share some of your own strategies for avoiding the isolation that can result when you start a small business.
This is the third tip in a series of one hundred tips for people starting a consulting business.
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