September was a month of introspection and outlook and I'm excited to make you all a part of my Q4 challenge.
Special thanks to my college advisor Chris K. for suggesting setting goals around your values because the "value boost" can give you extra energy when things get sluggish.
After taking a values assessment, my top values were Self Direction in Action & Thought, and Achievement. The value exercise reaffirmed my desire to start now. I recommend doing one, so you can use the insight to your advantage.
My Q4 Challenge is to make $10K doing sales and marketing automation for business owners. I've become an expert using Zapier and other automation tools at my main job and am now excited to leverage it to help more people.
In order to do this, I need to talk to 25 business owners of a company size of 10-50 employees. If you know someone like this who has an Automation need, please let me know.
This challenge will help me get more comfortable selling myself and practice client engagement, get exposure to more problems and more experience solving them, and advance towards becoming an automation subject matter expert.
My long term goal is to be a startup founder and build a company that sells products, not services. I'm confident this challenge aligns with that based on the aforementioned reasons.
How you can help:
1. Do you know business owners who need help automating processes in their business? Please reply to this email.
2. Going to be in NYC for the next 5 days, any tech friends / business owners whom I should meet with?
3. Anyone familiar with the concept of buy then build? Seems like a less risky way to start a company. Would love to talk about it.
Many thanks to Rosa for facilitating an intro to music industry contact for my artist friend.
Other news:
- Turned 23 years old on September 6th
- Next week is my one year anniversary at REEF and I received a small promotion
- I read 24 Steps to a Successful Startup: Disciplined Entrepreneurship (strongly recommend), Richest Man in Babylon, and Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Grateful for your support on the entrepreneurship journey.
Cheers to a successful Q4!