Get A Marketing Mentor, Get Ahead
Inc.com’s Women in Business Blog has a great article about the importance of mentorships. I couldn’t agree more. The right mentor can not only provide women entrepreneurs with invaluable business advice, but offer much-needed support during tough times.
Say the economy has you living paycheck to paycheck. It’s nice to know someone (man or woman) who can say, “I’ve been there—and look where I am now.” A mentor can also provide women some much-needed perspective when they’re bogged down by the day-to-day tasks of running their own business.
The internet has opened up tons of great opportunities to connect with the right marketing mentor for you. Message boards are crawling with experts who would love to help you brainstorm new marketing ideas or untangle some technical business snafu.
If there’s a particular woman in business whose brain you’d like to pick, find a way to make it profitable for her. Ask to do a short phone interview you can post on your blog, then send some traffic her way. Or write an article on her work for your local business journal, so you both get publicity. After all—if you have questions, chances are good other women in business do too.
Finally, don’t forget to return the favor one day. Today’s women in business face unique challenges. Your own advice could be just the thing some young woman entrepreneur needs to reach the top.
Do you have a marketing mentor? Have you mentored someone in the past? Let me know about your experiences in the comments section.
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Some days you feel totally lost. It’s hard to gather up enough motivation to keep going if you’re not sure you’re going in the right direction…… Having a mentor really helps. Sharing and caring fuel my emotional reserve and make me bolder in all my business dealings.
A mentor makes the difference between drowning and survival. In my life and business successes, there is always a mentor.
I agree! It’s good to hear that I’m not the only one who feels like a mentor is essential to success.
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Hi Kelly,
Good post. Adding to that: one of the most important ingredients an experienced mentor offers is insight. ‘The best vision is insight’. Because we’ve been there before with many people, in my industries and situations we have a broader view to draw from. Often the problem is not what it seems. Much of life is the undoing of something that shouldn’t have been done, or could have been done differently. Life’s an inner game, everything hinges on the self.
As humans, we’re given the ability to think at a higher level. Unfortunately, we often don’t. At least not in the way we were designed to. For many, ‘free will’ or ‘free thinking’ is just their belief system in disguise.
When we become more (of our-self), we need less. And the control is in letting go of the control. Your words remind me of the Tao; “true sayings seem contradictory. Act by not acting. Do by not doing. The master accomplishes much without doing”. Know thyself, and self mastery are the key.
Develop yourself by choosing a mentor that is well developed within themselves – if they don’t have it themselves, they can’t give it to you. Choose carefully to get more.
Business Advice & Self Mastery