You've got a service. You want to start a business. So, we're going to talk in this
video 6 steps to take to start a services business.
-Alright. Let's dive right in. You said there were 6 ways to start a
service business. A services business. a business built around services as
opposed to products. -We can talk technical stuff about how you go on the
website and register your LLC. We're going to talk more practical. 6
practical things. Okay. The first thing, offer your service for free. -Okay.
-But this is just in the beginning. Just for a couple clients. -Okay. -Why is
there value in that? -Why would there be value? Well, for starters, if you're just
getting started, you have to have a past, a history. You have to have a baseline. A
track record, yeah. You've got to have people who accept your services and
hopefully have a great experience from them... -Let's say the service is you fix
washing machines. You want to offer a washing machine repair business.
Hopefully you've repaired some washing machines before. -Yeah. How nice is that?
-Fix a couple washing machines for people. Do a good job. Okay? Or you know, obviously,
we do video editing. That could be... You could create a portfolio after you if
you want to create a photography business. If you want to do a lawn care
service. -Well and you're also starting the referral process and you have to
start somewhere. So if you can get 2 or 3 customers that will allow you to
do work work for them for free. Which almost everyone will. You'll have some
nice referrals from that and word-of-mouth and you go from there.
That's how you launch. -So you do public speaking. -Mm-hmm. -Was the first speech you
gave paid? -Absolutely not. No, the first several. And I consult other
up-and-coming speakers as well. And I'll always tell them where to go. some good
places, some good sources for them to start doing freebies. Where they can
videotape them and start getting a compilation of imagery as well. Proof as
they call it. Evidence that you actually can speak to an audience,
yeah. But free is the best. -So that's that's number 1 of the six.
So number 2. -Boy. -Number 2 is to create a portfolio. Now, a portfolio might
not be the word that applies in your situation. It could be testimonials. You
know, create a list of testimonials or some type of way that you can show the
results, show your history, show your experience to your clients. So really
just create that portfolio. I think that's good. Let's move on to
number 3. Number three is to market that portfolio or market those
testimonials to your target audience. How do you do that? -Well, I would suggest
that you use YouTube. -Now, this... We talk a lot of different ways you can market. We
talk to YouTube a lot. We obviously talk to LinkedIn a lot as well. But in... For the
sake of this video, we're just going to say you've got your portfolio, you've got
your testimonials, the next step is then to market it. Really, you got to find your
target audience and you want them to see your testimonials or your portfolio.
Okay, so we're talking about starting a services business. If you really want to
run a business and not just be self-employed, you've got to create
systems. You've really got to systematize things. So I have a video editing service
that I offer. But I don't do video editing. And how is that? Well, I created a
system. A step-by-step process that I then hired people that they now
run that that system. So, that's my recommendation for step number 4 is
create systems to run your business. To actually do those services or provide
those services. Step number 5 is closely tied in with it. It's hire people
to run that system. I'm going to recommend the e-myth revisited. I talked about that
book a lot. Listen to it or read it. The e-myth revisited. It talks about the
systems. It talks about creating experience. But then hiring people to run
those systems. So step number 6. It's actually related as well. Hire people in
the Philippines if it's computer-based. I talked about the Philippines a lot. I
was just there. I met my team for the first time after 9 years of having
people there. -Now, that's interesting, isn't it? I mean he's had this team of
employees of people that he's hired that he uses for this work for 9 years and
he just now met them face to face. It's incredible what all of this
technology allows you to do as an entrepreneur. -So, as you create these
systems. If part of your services are part of your systems involve work on the
computer or work that's done online, then I definitely recommend hiring people
specifically in the Philippines. If you want to know more specifically why do I
pick the Philippines versus any other country, there's a video you'll find
right there. Where I go into all the reasons why I hire people in the
Philippines. But that really is. I'm not joking. That is step number 6. If
you want to create a services-based business. Go through the first 5 steps
first and then hire people in the Philippines. -Now, let me ask you this. You
say you've been hiring people there for the last 9 years or you've had a team
composed of probably a revolving door of people. But do you have any that have
been with you the whole time? -One person that I just met for the first
time. He's been with me 8 and a half years. -It's amazing. Just met for the
first... -And if you want to know how I find them, you'll find a link below
virtualassistanttool.com. That's just the database where I find people
in the Philippines that want to work for... And clearly, it works because the
finished product you see before you, the fact that he still had one of the same
people for 8 and a half years. And he only has had to visit them once in all
of that time is testament. -Now that I found, I'm going to go back. It was a great,
great time. -I'm sure you would, yeah. I mean, that's pretty neat. It speaks to the
effectiveness of the whole model. -So, this was a short video. But I hope it was
helpful. I really hope that you internalized and applied these 6 steps
because that's... That's what I did to start my business. And I've pieced these
together. It took me a lot longer to get there to figure out these 6 steps. And
if I would have just known these 5 steps. Offer service for free, create a
portfolio, market, systematized, outsource, right? Hire people to run the system.
Use the people in the Philippines. -And then give away those 6 steps to however many
people want to take them off of YouTube or LinkedIn. -So, if you like this video, be
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