I truly love ideating, designing and creating. My pitfall: procrastinating activities that I feel uncomfortable with. Marketing and Sales implies that you go outside and meet with potential partners and customers. Pitching your business story to people that you have never met before. Quite difficult for an introvert like me.
Conscious of my weakness, I called in the support of a business coach: Lizanne Jakobs of Brilliant Work. She helped me to make a Marketing & Sales Plan – pointing me to branche specific possibilities and most of all being critical about the initiatives I actually took. Moreover I got a private workshop Social Media from Marlieke Markusse of MarkSparq
Brilliant Work interviewed me at the end of the trajectory:
Receiving a grant from Startversneller for the coaching was definitely helpful.