This sounds really exciting @alanfreestone. Would be interested to talk more about how I could be involved
RE: Birmingham Incubator - A project for 2018
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Hi @helesoutar your ears must have been burning as I was talking about bringing my better half to you for a bit of life-coaching. Maybe you have more contacts than me to start building a team around this project? I see an accountant, web-developer, video editor and other skill-sets being invaluable. Builder even! Lawyer etc. What where your initial thoughts about how you'd like to be involved?
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Ah, so that's why I suddenly felt an urge to come check out my steemit feed! Happy to put some feelers out with my contacts. My strongest area is strategy - working out exactly what the desired outcomes are and then working out how to make them happen - so I'm happy to offer my time for that.
Going forward, my initial thought was that to get the best from an incubator you'd need a team of advisors for those who move in, to give them the necessary support to get their businesses and ideas off the ground, something I'd be interested in being a part of
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Yes I agree, you'd be a good fit. Last year I got talking to some really young (19?)guys that were starting a digital marketing company. They were hopeless, they were trying to network but didn't collect my details or have a business card to give me. Afterwards I was like 'damn, I wish I could mentor them or something'....I even had a plan to build their agency.
They could pick a business in the area, let's say a chimney sweep, & offer to build them a decent website & sort out the digital marketing for free, no obligation. They'd just earn commission on any NEW business generated & be allowed to use the biz as a case study of their work. It would be little effort to optimise the Google visibility of the biz (as everyone else is terrible at it), and get some decent reviews posted on Google and hey-presto! Instead they were trying to get commissioned for a monthly fee to do your dig. marketing...but they had no track record. What would people be paying for? Anyway I'm rambling but it would be the type of people I imagine helping with the B'ham Incubator.
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Yes, it's such a massive learning curve starting a business, isn't it? So many different aspects, that have absolutely nothing to do with your key skills often, need to be mastered quickly. I was really lucky to get places on SPEED and EFS whilst I was still at uni and got a lot of mentoring through that. So many of these programs disappeared when all the RDA's were closed though - definitely time to restart!
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