Hello everyone!!
I want to preface by saying I am NOT cut out for the corporate world and after I was fired from my last job (not for bad performance, rather for workplace politics) I decided I had enough of the corporate world and started my own small business doing marketing and social media for personal brands and startups.
At first, it was great. No rejections from job applications anymore and I signed my first 2-3 clients very quickly. But now I’m at a point where I’m trying to scale and I’m reaching out to other potential clients.
All I hear is, “I’ll keep you in mind,” and it’s getting to me!
My confidence is starting to waver, as it takes a lot for me to put myself out there and I’m not the best with dealing with rejection.
So do you guys have any advice for how to get over it when you receive a “no” or “not yet” and how to NOT TAKE IT PERSONALLY and just keep going.
I’d appreciate any advice as I’m still relatively new to all this!
Facing rejection as a small business owner
byu/Diamond-Waterfall inEntrepreneur
Posted by Diamond-Waterfall
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Trust yourself and keep working hard. One day, you will receive an answer to your work. That moment you realized you had done it. Best wishes.
I haven’t been in your situation and I haven’t even started I hope to face this one day but for the last part I’d suggest simply realizing they receive many people asking the same things you have to make your self stand out and if you’re not doing so then you can’t feel discouraged why would you hire me when you could hire someone better you know, I’d recommend figuring out a way to stand out and continuously trying you’ll fall 1000 times but you only need to stay upright in a situation like this one time to feel the power you have to succeed and keep going I wish you the best and I’m still young and only just really started reading info so take what I say with a grain of salt (sorry for literally no punctuation)