From Zero To Six Figures In An Intuitive Way

Chapter 14 of Intuitive Business Connections

Intuitive Business Connections is a true story about the lessons learned from entrepreneur, Jadi Kindred. She reveals her trials and tribulations of growing a company from zero to six figures as a young entrepreneur and shares what helped her to succeed year after year. Based on the author’s personal experience of entrepreneurship, intuition, and connecting to cultures worldwide, she takes readers on her inspiring journey of growing her business from the ground up and achieving her dream lifestyle.

This book offers countless ways to grow personally, professionally, and socially and will shift your way of thinking about reaching your own potential.

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Chapter 14,

Zero to six figures in an intuitive way.

My choices reveal who I really am,

John Maxwell.

I never went to school for entrepreneurship.

Quite simply,

I never had any formal education on entrepreneurship.

Everything I learned was self-taught.

When I first started out,

I had no idea how to register a company,

Create a website,

Invoice,

Network,

Advertise,

Do bookkeeping,

Et cetera.

Every day I had to learn something new in order to stay open.

There were local programs assisting new startups with financing and business plan development for the first year in business,

But I was too impatient to begin.

I had no patience to spend months working on a business plan when I really wanted to self-finance and launch my company quickly.

In hindsight,

I'm curious as to how quickly I could have grown if I had taken this opportunity to learn and have extra financial help.

Maybe I would have stayed in my comfort zone if all my bills were taken care of.

I will never know.

My point is that for months before I started my company to every day since,

I am in constant learning and growth.

There's so much to learn in business that it will never end.

No one gave me steps to follow,

So I just had to trust myself and my intuition about what to do next.

I knew that fixed expenses would have killed me.

That is why I started,

And still today,

With having as many variable expenses as possible.

Once a contract has been signed,

From the comfort of my home office,

Only then would I purchase folders,

Gas to go to the client's office,

Memberships for lesson plans,

Etc.

I didn't want a brick and mortar store with its heavy leasing fees,

Payments for electricity,

Internet,

Phone,

Insurance,

And the list goes on.

I intuitively knew that slow and steady would win the race.

Every year,

I grew about 30%.

I kept my costs as low as possible and did almost everything myself.

I wanted a website,

So instead of paying someone to create it,

I did it myself.

Instead of hiring an administrative assistant,

I would reply to every email,

Phone call,

Create service offers,

And send invoices.

My expenses were extremely low,

And therefore my profits were high.

I am sure if I had a team early on,

I could have grown to exponential levels today.

But that was not my goal at the time.

I will touch upon that in the next chapter,

When I address the definition of success.

My definition was to create my dream lifestyle,

And that didn't mean managing lots of employees and having lots of fixed expenses.

I read that a staggering 50% of small businesses fail after five years in business,

And only about 30% of small businesses survive over 10 years in business.

These numbers alarmed me,

And I knew that I didn't want to be in those statistics of business owners that failed.

I wanted to succeed.

Influencing my intuition into the best business practices for me has helped my business grow surely and steadily.

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