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8 Great Ways To Build Entrepreneurial Skills To Make You More Effective In Your Fashion Business

  • July 2, 2020
  • Iyinoluwa Oludiya
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Starting a fashion business is not all there is to entrepreneurship. Every successful entrepreneur needs to develop the necessary entrepreneurial skills to succeed in business. Here are 7 ways to build entrepreneurial skills to make you more effective in business;

Ways to Build Entrepreneurial Skills 

1. Learn to Manage your Finances

One of the major reasons people go into entrepreneurship is to make money. Money equals finances. Understanding the basics of finances like cash flow, revenue, profit, and loss, is essential in running your fashion business. 

To learn to manage the finances of your business, start by reading materials on the topic, and managing personal finances. Learn how to work on a budget and manage your investments. 

2. Enhance Communication Skills

Every successful entrepreneur needs to learn how to communicate effectively because you will need to communicate your brand story effectively to others both online and offline.

To build your offline communication skills, volunteer to speak at events, parties, and meetings, make a conscious effort to meet new people, and so on. The more you practice speaking the better you get at it. To build your online communication skills, make it a point to post frequently on your social media pages, blog, or do similar online activities.

Communication skills will also be needed in communicating with employees, clients, and vendors. 

3. Get Yourself a Mentor

The value of learning from those that have gone ahead of you is priceless. Learning from a mentor can help sharpen your entrepreneurial skills greatly because they will share with you the mistakes they have made in their time so you can avoid making those same mistakes. 

The mentor you pick can be a successful family member or an entrepreneur you greatly admire. These mentors will many times help you finetune your ideas and support you during hard times. Another way to get a mentor is to go for an internship with someone you admire and learn from them while serving them. 

4. Network with other Entrepreneurs

No one has ever succeeded on his/her own. In building a business and developing entrepreneurial skills, networking with other entrepreneurs is important. Interacting with other entrepreneurs means you can learn from them and you can work hand in hand to help one another’s businesses.

While networking with them, you can help them solve their problems to grow your skills and become better at what you do. Networking can also be done through collaborations.

5. Never Stop Learning

It is said that the moment you stop learning is the moment that you die. As an entrepreneur, building the necessary skills to grow your business means going out to learn always.

Learning can never be done in excess. 

You should learn from the mistakes of others and learn from your mistakes. When you find an area you are lacking in look for resources on ways to develop yourself in that area and learn. Read books on different subject areas, listen to business podcasts, just look for learning opportunities.

6. Attend Events

Attending fashion events, entrepreneurial events, conferences, and meet-ups will help you understand the market better and know current best practices. Webinars, seminars, trade fairs, and the likes will help you increase your entrepreneurial knowledge.

No man is an island so in building entrepreneurial skills you need to learn to attend events to learn from others and remain in the know.

7. Volunteer to Lead

Entrepreneurship is leadership. While some are born leaders, others are not, but either way, to be able to properly develop leadership skills in yourself you need to volunteer to lead. Look out for leadership opportunities around you and volunteer for them.

You can volunteer to lead at a program in your church or office, at a fundraising event for an NGO, at a community event, a local meet up, or any other event you find a leadership opportunity in. The more you lead the more you develop your leadership skills and the better you will be for it. 

8. Challenge Yourself

Entrepreneurship comes with its own unique set of challenges ao to prepare yourself to handle these challenges, you need to challenge yourself first. 

Challenging yourself can be in the form of taking on a new skill, setting high goals for yourself, looking for solutions to the problems around you, discussing with people outside your comfort zone, or even doing something you would not ordinarily do. 

While developing these entrepreneurial skills in yourself is not a day’s job, with patience and determination you can surely do it.

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