Nona Black of New York City shares her first installment of her series on Tips for Today's Entrepreneur. Please feel free to share and follow Nona!

1. TIPS FORTODAY'S
ENTREPRENEUR
Nona Black

2. • Welcome back for another entrepreneurial and business based
article
• If you’ve taken a look at my other articles, presentations, and
websites you probably have seen that I think of myself as being
quite business savvy
• I love to read up on new ways to increase productivity, remain
focused even at 3:00pm, and generally excel each day work
• The presentation you are about to view is another helpful,
quick read on how to be the best entrepreneur you can be,
because the more you know, the more you can accomplish
• Enjoy and please feel free to share!

3. TAKE RISKS
• When you decided to pursue your dreams, quitting your job,
and striking out on your own, you took a risk
• Most people don’t have that strength and fortitude, so in a
sense you’ve already completed the hardest step
• Don’t be afraid of making calculated risks over the course of
your business because they will give you help you learn even
more and could prove to be extremely beneficial for you and
your business

4. USE QUORA
• If you’ve never heard of Quora, you should definitely look into creating an
account like yesterday
• This social platform allows you to follow blogs, topics, profiles, and questions
on specific niche topics
• You can ask questions on anything and even share your own answers to other
people’s questions
• Answering questions helps solidify your authority on different topics and aids
you in building a following
• Social networking and user interaction on social profiles is a big factor in
growing your business

5. COLD EMAIL
• Don’t be afraid to cold email anyone and everyone
• Sending out emails on news stories and updates with
your business to loyal or new customers will help
grow your company and solidify your brand name in
the customer’s mind
• You will become their first and last provider for
whatever goods/services you are providing

6. USE A JOURNAL
• Some of the greatest minds in history have been known to write down all their
thoughts in a journal so they never forgot a great idea
• It didn’t matter if it was during the middle of the day or middle of the night,
these brilliant people would always have a pen and paper near by so they could
cement their ideas in ink to come back to later
• Yes, some of the ideas were probably a little out there, but where would we be
without some of the mind-bending books, movies, and other entertainment we
currently consume so much of
• Check out this article from Supercompressor on brilliant people and their
thought journals: http://www.supercompressor.com/tech/9-creativity-hacks-
geniuses-use

7. NETWORK LIKE A BOSS
• Stay connected and be up-to-date on networking events that you
can attend
• Be sure to stay in touch with alumni and professors from your
college or university, join LinkedIn, and look up local meet-ups in
your home city
• Networking allows you to share valuable information on your
business with others, meet new people, seek out investors, and
more
• Make sure you have your elevator pitch nailed down

8. Nona Black
Thank you for viewing my presentation and please be
sure to check back again soon for the second
installment!