Conversations need somewhere to start.
Choose your numbers.
Choose your rhythm.
Then do it.
Customers come through conversations.
So your first job isn't to sell something. It's to create enough opportunities for those conversations to happen.
You might work online. You might start with people you know. You might use leaflets, catalogues, events, samples or local networking.
There isn't one right method. But there does need to be a method.
Pick an approach that fits you.
You don't need to do everything. Choose something that fits your time, your personality and the way you're comfortable working. Then give it a proper chance to work.
Need help choosing?
I need some ideas.
Explore different ways to create customer conversations.
I want to start with people I know.
Start with the relationships already around you.
What does showing up look like for you?
Your plan
How will you create conversations?
Choose the approach you're actually going to use.
Your numbers
How much activity are you committing to?
What will you actually do?
Your rhythm
When will you do it?
Decide where it fits into your week.
Here's mine.
I've chosen leaflets and catalogues.
My minimum is to go out twice a week for at least two hours. My goal is to reach at least 300 houses.
I deliver leaflets first. Around two weeks later I return to the same houses with catalogues. Then I go back again to collect them.
Then I repeat the cycle.
That's my system. I know what I'm doing, how much I'm doing and how often I'm doing it.
Why consistency matters.
I delivered just over 300 leaflets.
I got no customers.
It would have been very easy to decide the leaflets didn't work. I didn't.
Two weeks later I went back to the same houses with catalogues. Then I went back again to collect them.
That's when the conversations started.
People usually need to see you more than once.
One leaflet. One post. One conversation. One mention of what you do. It may not be enough.
That doesn't mean it didn't work.
Don't judge an activity from one exposure. Repeat it long enough to give it a chance to work.
You know how you're going to show up.