Needing an opinion from you guys.
I’m a new ish entrepreneur, past 1.5 years tested numerous different strategies and offers with my business and now finally feels like I’m starting to find the longer term, enjoyable and sustainable way I want to build my business (building a brand in social media, focusing on building awareness, community, having multiple different level offers, some passive funnels, I'm a digital creator and mentor)
However, my challenge is that my savings are running out mid this year. I would need clients to join my world, but I’m hesitating between two options:
1. Keep implementing my long term strategy sticking with this current direction, acknowledging that it takes time before I’m seen as expert and attracting clients to the right offers (this feels so genuine and GOOD!!). BUT with this I’m not making money that fast, it’s a long term game to build audience, gain trust, and get people to join my world.
2. Go back to my old “chasing” strategy including sales calls, hundreds of cold DMs, following up million times until people probably hate me, handling objections... (blah ALL this feels like crap tbh). But I did get 5 average quality clients in a relatively short time with this past strategy so it meant some good sales yes but actually the client work didn’t feel fun most of the time, they weren’t ready to join my world and that showed as them disappearing for the whole time of the mentorship (not beneficial for them neither for me)
What would you do? I wanted to keep this story short so there is def some gaps, but in general I’m just needing some new point of view. I wouldn't want to go back doing things I hated not only bc I dont like it but also because this isn't the direction I wanna go anyway in the future so I feel like I would take steps backwards. But I also am running out of my savings. Is there anything I could do with this current direction that is more effective or do I just need to be patient since good things take time?
I’m a new ish entrepreneur, past 1.5 years tested numerous different strategies and offers with my business and now finally feels like I’m starting to find the longer term, enjoyable and sustainable way I want to build my business (building a brand in social media, focusing on building awareness, community, having multiple different level offers, some passive funnels, I'm a digital creator and mentor)
However, my challenge is that my savings are running out mid this year. I would need clients to join my world, but I’m hesitating between two options:
1. Keep implementing my long term strategy sticking with this current direction, acknowledging that it takes time before I’m seen as expert and attracting clients to the right offers (this feels so genuine and GOOD!!). BUT with this I’m not making money that fast, it’s a long term game to build audience, gain trust, and get people to join my world.
2. Go back to my old “chasing” strategy including sales calls, hundreds of cold DMs, following up million times until people probably hate me, handling objections... (blah ALL this feels like crap tbh). But I did get 5 average quality clients in a relatively short time with this past strategy so it meant some good sales yes but actually the client work didn’t feel fun most of the time, they weren’t ready to join my world and that showed as them disappearing for the whole time of the mentorship (not beneficial for them neither for me)
What would you do? I wanted to keep this story short so there is def some gaps, but in general I’m just needing some new point of view. I wouldn't want to go back doing things I hated not only bc I dont like it but also because this isn't the direction I wanna go anyway in the future so I feel like I would take steps backwards. But I also am running out of my savings. Is there anything I could do with this current direction that is more effective or do I just need to be patient since good things take time?
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