Starting a Business When You Can't Get a Job

If you are sick of sending out resumes and hearing nothing back—or just tired of waiting for someone else to decide whether or not you get to work—this workshop is for you.

In this fast-paced, friendly, and highly practical session, you’ll learn how to turn your existing skills, experience, and passions into a small, sustainable business that generates income quickly. You don’t need investors, a business plan, or an MBA. You just need to understand how to offer what you do best in ways people are ready to pay for.

This session is designed for anyone—recent graduates, professionals between jobs, semi-retirees, or those who simply want to take control of their financial future.

After you sign up, make sure you download the fast track prep resources. They'll give you some things to think about before the event that will make what you learn more useful.

By Attending the Event You’ll Learn:

Why Starting a Business When You Can’t Get a Job Makes Sense
Many, if not most, businesses are started because the founder can't get a job, can't get a job that pays what they want to earn, or can't get an employer to pay them to do what they want to do. Follow their lead and get started on your journey to employing yourself profitably.

How to Take Payment for Services You Offer
Learn how to make it very easy for people to pay you, and to pay you significantly more. Learn how to get paid before you start work, and why that's good for both you and your customers. Finally, learn how you can say "yes" to big projects when you don't have the resources to fund the work. This is a key workshop for new business owners.

The Fastest & Easiest Businesses to Start
You can start any of a hundred businesses. You can even start more than one if you want. Sometimes that makes lots of sense. But the important thing to understand is that some businesses are easier to start than others. You can start making money in hours or days, or take months or years to get your business up and running. As the business owner, you decide.

How to Quickly Find, Pitch, and Close Customers
Think selling your work is hard? This workshop fixes that. Learn how to comfortably reach out to the right people about your work, what to say to them, and what, exactly, will make them want to buy. Note that what you learn will also be helpful when you are looking for a job or hiring people to help you grow your enterprise.

Setting Your Prices to Maximize Sales and Speed of Purchase
Learn important tips, tricks, and traps when it comes to pricing. It can be one of the most dangerous aspects of starting a business. Too low a price, and you'll scare off customers or go broke trying to serve them. Too high a price, and your customers won't want to say yes. Perfect pricing is what proves your value. We'll also talk about what to do if you have previously poorly priced your work. That's a mistake new entrepreneurs make all the time.

How to Keep Things Simple, Low-Risk, and Profitable
Learn about the mistakes and misunderstandings that kill most startups and traumatize most new business owners. It's not hard to stay out of trouble if you know what to keep your eye on. We'll talk about the customers to avoid, the deal structures that don't work, and what to do when things go wrong.

Why This Workshop Matters

This is a crucial primer for anyone struggling to find steady work or ready to build a second income stream. It’s not theory—it’s a real-world guide to making money by doing what you already do well.

Whether you’re just out of school, struggling or bored mid-career, or want to plan for your next act, this workshop delivers the insight and confidence to start your business on your own terms.

About the Speaker

Nancy Fulton is a serial entrepreneur who has owned and operated multiple businesses since graduating from UCLA at 20. She has taught entrepreneurship for UCLA and for an international School for Creative Startups. Businesses she's owned and operated have provided consulting services for Autodesk Inc. and Walt Disney Imagineering, among many others firms both large and small.

Perhaps more important, 60,000+ creative entrepreneurs follow her on Meetup.com, where she teaches them the practical business skills required to turn their various talents into income that pays their bills.

This workshop is a pragmatic Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur real-world startup primer. It should not be relied upon for legal or financial advice related to particular business or business owner. Instead participants will find friendly, insightful, supportive and intuitive help for understanding how and why most startup and small business owners do what they do.

Sponsored by www.RationalCo.com

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