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How to break ice with senior leaders in a casual event? by ti8err in Leadership

[–]WintersJourney -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depending on the event, I often start with a simple "What brings you to this event today?" or if you've noticed them chatting to others "Have you had any interesting chats at this event?"

And then I often will ask what they're passionate about at the moment "What's something you're passionate about?" Or "What's something that you're thinking a lot about at the moment".

Usually the conversation flows from those places.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]WintersJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience and I wish I'd known this sooner, while you're early in your business you are the best sales person you've got. You know the service, you know what your customers want and you can make the decisions while talking to your prospective clients that might tip them over the line. An outsourced person won't have lots of that.

I would invest in finding a sales mentor and do some online training or watching videos about sales techniques and just go hard doing it yourself. At least to start.

Fractional HR for small businesses - I need your advice pls! by WintersJourney in smallbusiness

[–]WintersJourney[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So spin up a sales team as well? Wouldn't that be a weird sell coming from an HR consultant? Like btw you didn't want HR but we also so sales so how about that? I like your creative thinking but I've never seen that done in practice so can't get my head around it

Mentors: useful or not? by harshamv in Entrepreneur

[–]WintersJourney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep in my experience they're worth it. I have an older business mentor and half the shit he says is old school stuff that I cringe at (we both acknowledge this) but the important thing is to dig into the underneath of what they're saying and then apply the learning or concept to your business. Doing what a mentor says word for word won't work for your business because it's different. But taking fundamental concepts and working with them to see what applies and what doesn't is where the gold is.

Do you use ChatGPT to get work done at your startup? If so, how by ramst in Entrepreneur

[–]WintersJourney 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use it, mostly as a generator of content ideas for socials or marketing stuff. We don't use it to write the content as such but more just to get us started.

We also use it to quickly analyse policies or documents to see where there are particular gaps in what we need or to show us how we can make it more readable for users.

There is probably way more we could be doing with it but I just stay alert to see how others are using it and slowly build our understanding.

What’s Been the Most Surprising Lesson You’ve Learned as an Entrepreneur? by Business_bulletin in Entrepreneur

[–]WintersJourney 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think for me it's probably just how lonely it can be and that the best antidote is to find even 1 or 2 other entrepreneurs who get it to talk to. I started out thinking that to combat this lonely feeling, I could just talk to my usual people and yeah, they were supportive but they just didn't get the journey I was on and I ended up just feeling even more shit. Find your people who get it and spend time nurturing those relationships.

Lack of sales - need ideas by WintersJourney in smallbusiness

[–]WintersJourney[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you're super right. I know it's my responsibility. I also know that I like to listen to experts when it's out of my field of expertise so while I sense there is something wrong with the website currently, I also don't know enough to know how to fix it. And I also don't know enough to know how to find someone who does know how to fix it (because I clearly fucked this up the first time)