How To Start A Business Jon Bradshaw

Welcome back to the highly-anticipated relaunch of "How to Start a Business" – the podcast where dreams meet drive, and first-time founders meet their blueprint for success. If you've ever toyed with the idea of taking your vision and transforming it into a thriving enterprise, you're in the right place. Perhaps you tuned in during our first season, gaining insights and understanding from our diverse array of guest entrepreneurs. Or maybe you're joining us for the first time, eager to embark on this entrepreneurial journey.
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So forgive me! This is one of my first video interviews that we had ever completed.
Michelle McCullough is a proven speak and published writer, in addition to being an awesome entrepreneur.
If she had to start over she'd find companies with lots of different products, rebrand them, and sell products that someone others have made.
If it was a business that she started with her daughter, it would be with her jewelry.
If it was an idea that she ran with her son it would relate to Pokémon.
She loves win-win social entrepreneurship ideas that help entrepreneurs in other countries, in 3rd world countries, and help grow their companies.

Jared Richards is meeting with us today, and sharing his new business idea.
He's the founder of Blue House Ski's, and is now launching Coinless Mobile, a technology platform for carwash owners and their customers.
Jared wanted a mobile payment solution at his car wash.
He came up with that idea in November, purchased a booth at the car wash show in April and are in beta right now with a long list of potential customers.
It shows you that you can come up with an idea today, and be up and running in 6 months.
 

Today we are with Jennifer Davis from The Blueberry Hill, a company that sells cute hats for children, and she will discuss what social networks she uses to grow her business.
It's important not only to build a presence but to drive sales.
She got on social media several years ago and it was much easier then. People saw her content and it was growing.
Then Instagram and Facebook changed their algorithm, and that stopped.
Now she uses ads to sell products via social networks.
She doesn't sell products, she sells an emotion.
They grow a lot more from Pinterest than Instagram but does a lot on both.
Learn more about Jennifer here:
https://theblueberryhill.com/

Today we learn how to get your first retailer to sell your product.
She shares how a small, children's specialty store was interested and placed an order for her first product.
A month later, they placed a $1,000 order.
At the time she sold the product outright. Sometimes others sell on consignment.
Selling on consignment is a good way to get in a store, but it's hard to scale.

Learn how to overcome challenging days as an entrepreneur. Jennifer Davis from The Blueberry Hill.
What makes entrepreneurs make it or break it, is if you keep going.
Sometimes product doesn't ship, things fall apart, but keeping going is the hardest part.
Do you watch Netflix tonight, or do you work on your business? Do you work until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, or do you just keep going. :)