No one is an all rounder when it comes to any part of life, whether it is about managing a business or home or children, we all have some missing parts where we need support and assistance.
I quit my job way back in 2015, and since then I have been wanting to establish myself in my own skills that I have, one of them being Yoga and the other being a Soft skills trainer.
Thankfully with both the skills I am doing well but not that great where I can call myself a true Entrepreneur and the one very reason for it is I am very poor in my Marketing & Negotiation skills. I have very good knowledge on the subjects that I want to work on, but being an introvert I am very hesitant of reaching out to people and selling my work.
I know these days there are Marketing agents and we can easily take their services, and to an extent I do that, but somewhere I feel that I should be confident of selling my own work where I lack confidence. I just am very weak in doing any kind of selling, whether it is product or services. As such my communication is very good, but whenever I reach out to someone on talking about my services I fumble up on my words. May be it is the fear of being judged, yes I guess so, because I have too many thoughts of what people will think, how will they accept my work, what about my pricing, is it too high, too low....all these type of questions run on my mind.
Thankfully my husband steps in on this part of my work. He helps me a lot, he is excellent in his marketing skills and assist me in my work. He does the initial marketing part and sets me up and then I do the operational part. But sometimes I wish that I could do it all by myself. I have improved a lot then before but still I am not there 100% on my own, I keep needing his assistance on and off.
I have plans to start a new venture in the near future, and this is going to be again one concern for me. I am planning to start a Bed and Breakfast renting accommodation in an off grid way for weekend breaks away from the city in a rural environment. Now again for this I will need to advertise and market my concept in a manner that people get attracted to it. But I know it is not in my full capacity to do it, so I will need help. It is not a big thing, so not that I need some very professional help and I would not even want to spend that kind of money. Again my husband will have to step in and do the marketing part for me on this project.
For sure I do not lack confidence, overall I am a very confident and adamant person, but at the same time I am emotional also. The another drawback that I have is many times I do not charge for my work and just do it for free. This is one major lack in my, I feel very embarrassed to ask for money, then be it even if it is for my own work. I am poor in negotiations and bargains. If some one shows any kind of financial issues then I would do it free for them. In that bargain I realize that many people take advantage of me and some times under pay me or get it done free.
Last month I had a client who was coming to me for Yoga, she had some back problems so she needed 1 month assistance. She expressed to me that she has financial issues and is in trouble. Now since this was a matter of health, I offered to charge her half of my fees. But later I got to know from a friend that she had no such issues and it is just her habit of always squeezing the opposite person with money by showing she has issues. I was pissed off for my own stupidity, and it is not the first time I have gone through such a situation. It has happened many times.
At times hubby makes fun of me saying you spend more in your work then what you earn, and that I am better off in a job only. Business is not meant for me. And I too feel the same, but for sure I do not want to get back to a job and nor can I sit not doing anything. So I need to find solutions to my shortcomings and work on them.
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From a professional perspective, this is often seen as a problem. But from a human perspective, this is an advantage that you have that other people don't have. It's just that this kind of good attitude is often misused by others. They will think you are an easy person to take advantage of because you are too kind.
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