I 24F am starting a business in the clothing industry. I have absolutely NO support and I don’t know what I’m doing. I need help! The guy working in my website is WAITING ON ME for the photos but I keep second guessing myself because I don’t know how to do this. Because he’s waiting on me I it’s causing me anxiety galore. Ever since I’ve attempted starting my husband has been telling me not to do it and it has destroyed my self esteem Im in the need of more money and my husband has it but won’t allow me to have it. I have enough to pay the guy and start listing. But I don’t know what looks professional. I just need someone in my family to give me their time! Maybe some faith too. Does anyone have suggestions on what my next step is??
Be careful with finding support in other places. If the people closest to you don’t think you are on the right path, they could very well be right. As well as those who aren’t close, don’t know the specifics like the close ones do. Meaning their encouragement could be dangerous.
My advice is to listen to the reasons he is objecting. Be ultra careful to avoid involving emotion and look at it from a black and white perspective. Is there merit to his objections?
Then, I would start reading business books. Probably start with “The Lean Startup”. Because if you are stressing about the picture already, that is a very bad sign. Makes me Lean more towards this likely isn’t a good idea to proceed.
Don’t look for validation or support elsewhere. If you don’t have your husband’s, it’s not going to succeed. It just isn’t. And you absolutely need him to be on board if you want to succeed. Entrepreneurship is about personal sacrifice. Which includes family sacrifice. It almost always strains relationships and always requires your family to pick up the slack while you work. Doesn’t sound like that would happen.
Have a heart to heart. Is it the business he doesn’t like? Is it that he doesn’t think you can do it? What exactly is it. Then work together to figure out what the two of you can do together that he would be on board with. If it really is you, then you need to read up and show him you do have it in you. Or, start way way way smaller, in a more Lean way.
You might not be ready. I spent years planning my business. I spend likely too much time planning projects, and when it works perfectly i never regret it. When there are fails, planning for contingencies was the problem. Plan, write, draw, visualize, talk about it.
How are you starting a business in something you know nothing about?
Are you making clothes? What are you doing exactly?
Multi cultural business. Western Indian and Turkish.
Key thing - get your husband on side. Honestly you will need this to survive.
2nd - photographer don’t over think it. You need your clothes on a white background at a minimum. Use pixlr to get the images to look right. It’s a cloud photo editor and you get 3 a day free. I ay £100 per product if it helps to a local photographer.
Can’t afford that? A white tablecloth against a white wall and you’ll get close enough.
Fix your mindset ASAP. You arent cut out to be an entrepreneur if you have this much trepidation. I would get a 9-5, build up your business on the weekends and evenings and over time it will take off.