I want to start a business but have no idea what I want to do! 5 steps that helped me attract my 'dream job' Part 3

Hello,
I'm Maki Kazai.

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Even I, who had no idea what I wanted to do, have now entered my fourth month of entrepreneurship!

I will be writing about the 5 steps I took over these three months!

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Step 3: Meeting clients and experiencing the joy of helping them comes first!

① In the early stages of entrepreneurship, it is important to experience 'meeting clients and making them happy'

Before creating products or getting everything else in order, first try meeting clients. Experiencing the joy of helping them is the top priority. I am experiencing this firsthand!

My mentor compared what I 'can do' to 'Doraemon's secret gadgets'.

You meet clients, grasp their 'problems,' and then offer what you can do from among your own secret gadgets!

You won't know how your secret gadgets can be useful until you actually meet clients! So you have to meet them!!

I started by doing what you might call monitor activities!

The very first thing I started was a 'Document Creation Consultation Session'.

Here, for the first time, I was able to experience the feeling of 'making a client happy' through document creation and receive 'client feedback'.

I reached out on Facebook, but the only people who came were two friends from my entrepreneurship school.

However, I wasn't able to get any clients after that.

Still, it was a very meaningful first step.

Because I was able to take this step, I was able to move forward to the 'improvement' stage.

② Not sure about your product?! Even so, try it honestly!

Following advice from my mentor, I made improvements and started:

Something called 'I will bring out your charm and present it in a document.' (Thisis a prototype of the product here)

It is a product that adds 'bringing out the other person's charm' to my 'document creation' skills. (This is also a skill I have as a career consultant)

But,
At first, I thought to myself,

Is this it...? haha

Although I started after receiving advice from a mentor,
honestly, at first, I had no conviction and felt no real progress.
I wondered, 'Can I really be of help to anyone with this??' haha

So, I started by having my peers from the entrepreneurship school try it out.

To my surprise, they were happier with it than I had imagined.

'It's packed with the message I want to convey, so I posted it on my blog,'
'I read it every time I take on a new challenge,'

they said, and it was like the customers were teaching me how to use my own product. Haha

③ Experiencing that products are created by meeting customers and receiving their feedback

From then on,
I repeated the cycle of meeting customers, receiving their feedback, and sharing information.

Since I didn't have the connections to reach out to people individually, nor the courage to do so, I focused my efforts on 'sharing information'.

I really moved forward one step at a time.

And what happens when you start gathering customer feedback?

I became able to articulate more concretely how I could help customers and what value I could provide with this product.

You might think, 'Isn't that backwards?'
'Shouldn't you attract customers only after you can explain it well?'

But for someone in the early stages of entrepreneurship like me, this order was fine.
The top priority is simply to meet customers; you learn as you meet them.

Today, for Step 3, I wrote about how 'the first step is to meet customers and experience them being happy'!

At the moment you think, 'Let's try meeting customers,'
do you feel a rejection response to the reality of what is called 'attracting customers'?

But it's okay.

Even if it is attracting customers, do it at your own size and your own pace.
I don't think you need to start on a massive scale or keep doing things you aren't good at.

Even now, I'm still not good at 'reaching out to customers individually'...

However, I did think, 'What should I do if I can't do that?'

In my case, I learned how to share information and have been putting it into practice like this!

For a clumsy person like me, the only way is to expand the range of what I can do, little by little, through small accumulations of 'I think I can do this'.

Even so, I still move forward.
That's why it's important not to compare yourself to others, not to aim for a miraculous home run, and to always be conscious of your own pace.

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