12 Tips to Building a Business While Working Full Time with Christine Daal
Trying to start a business alongside working a full-time job is not easy. That’s why I invited Christine Daal onto the podcast. Christine is a wife, mom, and owner of a fashion marketing agency. She has over a decade in the fashion industry, designing for the likes of Polo Ralph Lauren and Adrianna Papell. Her company has been featured in Today, Elle, Seventeen, QVC, CNN, and SNL. She was also recently featured in the same Yahoo article and me for the Top Leading Female Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For In 2021!
So needless to say, Christine has a lot of advice to share on building a successful business alongside working a full-time job.
Christine’s 12 Tips To Building A Business While Working Full-time
1-CHECK COMPANY CONTRACTS SIGNED
Think of any agreements you may have signed, this includes a non-compete. It’s also a good idea to talk to a trademark attorney at this time as well.
2-GET FINANCES IN ORDER
Figure out how much you need to survive on. Do you have any debt? Can you reduce your expenses?
3-GET IN THE RIGHT MINDSET
Make sure you're passionate about what it is that you are doing. You need to have a strong “why”.
4-MAKE SURE SPOUSE/FAMILY ON BOARD
Starting a business while still working will take a toll on everyone you're with and live with. It can be a rough road ahead, you’re going to have to persevere, and it’s going to be difficult if you have to deal with a lot of negativity.
5-SET GOALS
Set attainable goals for your business to stay on track and keep you accountable. Figure out what you want and where you want to be in order to walk away from your full-time job.
6-GET ORGANIZED
Write out a schedule for the week and start to see where you can fit in time for your business. Figure out your commitments and don’t be afraid to ask someone for help with them in order to spend more time on your side business. Some other examples are listening to a podcast while getting ready in the morning, spending break working on your business while you eat lunch,
7-GET ALL LEARNING/COACHING DONE
Get in everything you need to learn in order to start your business. Once you walk away from your full-time job, you will end up spending most of your time trying to make money and you won’t have as much time for coaching and learning.
8-PROOF OF CONCEPT
You don’t want to quit your job until you have a proven concept that your business is going to make money. This means having people other than your friends and family purchase from you and tell you it’s a viable business.
9-PAY OTHERS WHILE YOU CAN
“I was once told, if someone can do something 83% better than you, you need to delegate it,” Christine says. Business people are smart at what they can do, and what they can't. Don’t try to take on every aspect of starting a business by yourself. If your budget allows, start outsourcing as much as you can while you have your full-time income still coming in.
10-BUILD FOLLOWING NOW
You need to build a tribe of people BEFORE you launch. This ensures that when you do launch, you have a set of people ready to buy.
11-TOOLS/ WAYS TO SAVE TIME
Here are a few of my favorite tools to help you save time: Google Chrome extension called OneTab, Google Drive to save things, and if you can use your work computer because they’re so much faster.
12- KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO STEP OUT OF THE BOAT
You’ll want to ask yourself 3 things: Do you have sufficient savings in case your business is not profitable right away? Are you in the right mindset to walk away? And, do you know yourself?
More from Christine
Christine shared so much more about working full-time while side hustling a new business, as well as her journey of starting and growing in the fashion industry. You can connect with Christine on Instagram @fashionangelwarrior and online at fashionangelwarrior.com. I hope you’ll hit play on this episode to hear Christine’s full story on The BrandWell Podcast.
KEEP BRANDING WELL,
Victoria
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