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What would be your tips for an early entrepreneur

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going into the business and starting a business?

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Well, the first tip is don't even think about the website

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till you've sold at least one customer.

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It's a distraction and a waste.

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And then make the smallest, cheapest website you can

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until you have enough customers telling you

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that they have needs that you can build the website

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around what your customers are telling you.

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The customer needs to know, I'm an accountant

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and I specialize in this and here's my phone number.

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Here's my email address.

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Call me if you want a consultation.

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That's a perfectly, you know, with a headshot,

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that's a perfectly adequate website for an entrepreneur.

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Easy enough to build it in Wix or Squarespace.

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You know, you don't need any help for that.

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You get a little more complicated,

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then you need some help.

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Not because of the technical issues,

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but again, because of the marketing issues.

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How do you speak to the language of the customer?

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How are you sure you're speaking

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to the language of the customer?

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How do you get out of your own head?

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Right.

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Because, you know, you're trapped in the day-to-day

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of finding customers and helping customers

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and you need somebody who's objective,

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who's not trapped in your world to bounce ideas off of

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and say, well, I don't think that one is clear enough.

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Yeah, yes.

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And I don't think that one goes far enough.

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So you need to write more about that.

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And...