Lockdown: The perfect time to build your personal brand & side business

blog 2020
Written By Andrew Ford

Stuck at home and want to use your time effectively? It's the perfect time to work 'on' your personal brand and business instead of 'in' it and I'm going to help you do it.

I get how you feel. It's hard to focus on anything other than the crisis at the moment. It's sometimes all-consuming. Tough times for so many, I feel it too.

But putting your attention into something productive and forward-looking will help your mental health and be a kickstart to more opportunities once the lockdown is lifted.

Think about it. People are locked down for weeks or months and spending a huge amount of time on social media. They are looking for advice and solutions to their issues. They want the distraction and ways to spend their time because they can't socialise. It's never been a better time to get your brand out there and help them with your advice.

Does this sound like you...?

You have been retrenched, let's come up with a new service we can offer the market.

You have a small business, let's come up with new business models.

You have ignored online all these years because you had a strong business, now is the time to learn new skills.

You are worried about your future career prospects, it's time to build a side hustle and add a new income stream.

After working with dozens of clients creating new businesses, I know the barrier to starting a new business is time, money, confidence and the knowledge of how to get started. Plus fear...

You have time. You hardly need any money to get started. We have a process to give you certainty with your idea and a well-tested process to build your business.

You are out of excuses!

Check it out

Need some more motivation?

Building your own business will help others through this crisis. Directly through your services and indirectly from stimulating the economy. The more action and energy you can put into doing something new, and not focussing on the problems of the world, the more you help everyone. Let's be part of the solution.

So join me in my new Launch in 12 Weeks program. I have been running this for over five years and have helped many remarkable businesses kick start their existence. Now I have put all this knowledge online to help you through this challenging time.

Who is it for? Perfect for knowledge professionals who can create a consulting business. But also anyone who has a passion for helping people with their services.

Some of our previous clients are:

  • Ex-corporate who started a writing business

  • A health professional started a marathon running side business

  • Sales professional turned author and consultant

  • CEO pivoted to a portfolio career on boards, consulting and advisory

  • A dairy farmer turned professional speaker

It's your time to make a difference in the world. Get off the couch, turn off the TV and kick start your idea into reality from your own home.

Join me in the Social Star Grow Club for $97- month.

Due to the Corona Crisis, we have reduced the price from $297 to $97 plus GST. Use coupon 'CoronaRelief' to access your $200 discount on the silver package which includes the coaching package with me.

Inclusions are live group coaching with me, detailed 12 week online course, 125 page course book and heaps of online resource. Templates, eBooks, videos and helpful tips. It's great value.

Don't waste this opportunity. Start your own business while you can.

Andrew

P.S. Have a question? Book a call with me to discuss your specific needs here.

P.P.S Warning: this is a doing course. It's not suitable for people who will not put in the required effort, resourcefulness and self-responsibility to own your business and make it happen. We will show you the path, you need to walk the path. We will support you every step of the way.

Andrew Ford
Marketing expert Andrew Ford, the founder of Social Star, has discovered the secret of ‘Powerful Branding’. With a fire for unleashing people’s inner brand and developing business models to generate profit from an individual’s passions, Andrew leverages ground-breaking digital and social media marketing techniques to create digital strategies for clients to attract maximum opportunities. Having established a strong name for himself in the field, Andrew blends traditional business techniques with now-necessary tools for entrepreneurs to achieve scale, quality, and influence in their niche. Andrew’s comprehensive business background and qualifications consist of a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) (RMIT 2003), a Graduate Certificate in Management (MBA Executive Program, University of Sydney 2005), and a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Swinburne University 2011). Continually on the cutting edge of his own education, Andrew has tested his marketing theories in forums such as the BCG Business Strategy Competition, which he won in 2005 against all Victorian MBA schools, and the Venture Cup Business Plan Competition (Swinburne University 2003), which he won in the Masters category. With experience working at Hewlett-Packard, Sensis (Telstra) and IBM, Andrew also has mentored dozens of junior staffs to help them achieve their professional goals. Meeting and influencing high-profile public figures helped Andrew to realise just how many professionals require more understanding and control of their public brands or appearance, and need help with the skills to use the many amazing free tools at their disposal to generate success. At Social Star, Andrew consults with clients to uncover their personal brand – both where it is today and where it can be tomorrow – and refine and define how that should be displayed in social media in order to attract their perfect target audience. Andrew mentors his clients to rapidly grow their business’ audiences, resulting in larger potential client bases and higher revenue. Applying formulas that integrate over twenty years of Andrew’s business experience and fifteen years of formal business education, Social Star specialises in building clarity and velocity for clients’ brands using the ‘Understand, Build and Leverage’ methodology. ‘Having a Personal Business enables people to have an authentic, congruent connection with their valued clients and partners, using their brand as the bridge,’ says Andrew. ‘I’m highly driven to work with the new breed of entrepreneurs and small business owners – people who have a passion for making the world a better place. Traditional business models are stepping aside as people follow their innermost dreams and my role is to see them operate within their values while creating wealth. Some people think you have to sacrifice what you love to be successful in your business, yet it is actually the opposite. Follow your passion and success will come.’ Lecturing at Swinburne University from 2009 to 2011 on brand dynamics and digital marketing, presenting at numerous conferences, and consulting to hundreds of clients, Andrew has seen his philosophy work that if you follow your unique path, based on your skills, experience, values and goals, you will automatically attract the opportunities you desire and achieve the success you deserve. Living his mantra, Andrew has created a successful business and attracts high-profile clients including musicians, athletes, authors, models, entrepreneurs, professionals and small business owners, helping them find their ‘why’ in their business and fulfilment in their lives. Business for Andrew is more than work, it’s personal. Running a personal business means that he is able to fulfil all of his values rather than separating his life from work. It supports his two boys while providing social opportunities, educational development, fitness opportunities, spiritual fulfilment and many valuable friendships. Social Star has now become the vehicle for Andrew to crystallise his mission in the world, to help people love what they do, supporting his ‘why’, that if more people loved what they did, the world would be a better place.
http://www.andrewford.com.au/
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