SUCCESS AND FAME seem
within reach. I understand the thinking 
of
a young person. You have faith, certainty that just hitting the streets
and proposing your deal, BIG CEOS will invite you into their offices and
reach into their pockets and invest or support you, hire you, fund the
dream. But for a woman, the whole success target can be hard to hit. Men
have an easier time. There is a glass ceiling. It isn't just a rumor. So
take advantage of the tricks to success, at first so that you can create
that first SPARK. LATER, when you're a big hit, the fact that you're just
a sweet little girl makes VIPS applaud, makes people love you more, admire
you more than they might a man who perhaps made it with less struggle.
FOR A GAL, going in, it's way way more difficult to be taken seriously.
So you need to floor it with all eight valves from the gitgo.
a.) HIT THE STREET! The number one rule of 'making it' is just putting your feet on the street. Getting out into the business district is useful for meeting people, networking and hearing the industry gossip which is super important. The more you're hittin the street, the better statistic you have of creating a team, befriending local rchants, getting known.
b.) Bring your clippings! The fastest way to get reporters to write you up is by starting the FREE CHURCH BASEMENT "COTTAGE INDUSTRY in MERCANTILISM" Study Group. You put this meeting on Craigs list, you will attract students, be well attended. Assign everybody the BAZAAR FOLKLORICO IMPORTS free seminar online to read so that they're prepared. They will have digested the ideas and had a few of their own. Reporters are always invited to come to meetings. You will get press as this idea is NEW BORN AND FRESH. Then create your press kit. Show that you're already getting famous, and that means reaching out to local papers with trim Photo Display books with your write ups. Create assemblages of more than newsprint & photos; throw in bios, resumes, pictures of the team, the merchandise of your own chumcluster, the designs. Kinkos up some good stuff in color.
c.) Network through your current job but also at local cafes. Eat out more, talk to strangers. Learn the art of befriending all ages, not just your co-entrepreneurs but seniors. Your whole team does the friendly connecting, drawing in new guests at lectures. Always carry your business card and the invitations to the group meeting. Create the phone machine with message so everybody can dial in and hear your voice. Also create the website. Drak.net is a webhost that is 3$ a month, nearly half if you get 3 websites. Networking is easy as you are out there, in a major recession, giving tips about survival. Seek your artist designer types which means going to a lot galleries, the downtown trade mart and trade shows. Carry biz cards and press kits full time. That means a briefcase or portfolio with a shoulder strap rather than handles, though I've seen an Apple lap top give beautiful photo displays which show what you're doing.
d.) LOOK IMPORTANT. A.) Stylish clothing, expensive shoes. B.) Bring a team with you. Rather than it just being YOU, your idea, your project, the amazing, sparkling folks you come in with will effectively show that you have or ARE a POWER GROUP and have assembled 'believers' already. The fact that 4 or 6 or 10 people work on ONE project is already an amazing thing. This was Bill Gates number one trick but it wasn't a trick, it was real. His work attracted many men and they traveled as a group to meet the BIG GUYS. Get all the bio work on him that you can find as books and online. If it's SO, show that you are the boss of that group. And if it's SO, show that each member has an amazing talent. one is a CPA/ bookeeper. Another is a webmaster, designer. This aids in your being taken seriously.
e.) CAFE BUSINESS DECORUM. * No smoking or drinking anything wilder than a single, white wine. This biz meeting may be in a cafe but it isn't a party. A bunch of kids excited about a Mexican cafe and getting looped on margaritas does not impress a potential investor; it scares!
f.) BE TIDY ABOUT MONEY ARRANGEMENTS. Contracts must set up who invests how much out of your chumcluster and how repayment is scheduled and computed. A business lunch is GO DUTCH unless the rich guy insists otherwise. You do not pick up tabs for rich CEOs. You can be persuaded to give up the idea of paying for your own team's meal if he is graceful and insists.. If you have ten people on your team, and there's one CEO, a food outing may not be a good idea. If CEO insists, everyone of your team must be pre rehearsed to say that they already ate, and maybe they order an ice cream or piece of pie and coffee. No more than that unless you can all afford to pay your check. HOWEVER, get this: It would be very impressive for your business team to already have their group credit card and your BOOKEEPER KID pulls it out and pays. But that's if you have some cash. You don't want to blow the last of your bankroll on a lunch! Especially if that CEO later doesn't sign you up.
H. Research the lives of people who did it. Study the bios of the great ones. David Horowitz wrote up the lives of Rockefeller and Ford. Read up on Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and read a great autobio, CEO by Sandra Kurtzig. She took a garage business to 444 million dollars which back in the 70's was like 2 billion is today. Search for titles used for a dollar each at Abebooks.com.
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