WHAT IS SUPPORT?
February 3, 2022
Every entrepreneur comes to the point where they have to face their expectations on what is support and who should support come from right now. I’ve been an artist all my life but I’ve been a serious commercial artist meaning I am actively pursuing a career in all my artistic endeavors since about the latter half of 2015.
Since then I’ve encountered what we refer to as “fake support” a billion times. Today’s article won’t focus on what isn’t support but it will simply states what is support. There is only two ways I feel that truly supports an entrepreneur’s journey.
I.SHARING
This part is completely free. If you call yourself “supporting” an entrepreneur friend the easiest thing you can do is share their work. Keeping your praises to their inboxes and private messages does nothing for their business, if anything it may harm it because constant praise can inflate one’s ego! So here’s what you do beloved on any social platform take a post of their you genuinely like and put it on your page and TAG them!
If you on Twitter, retweet and tweet links, on IG post on story if you’re generous do. a page post, Facebook do the same thing as IG! If you’re on snapchat post it and provide the link as an attachment. Do this beloved and don’t keep telling them its fire they should know that already!
II.FINANCIAL COMPENSATION
As an entrepreneur I personally know that getting people that personally know you to buy something from you is like pulling teeth! They would spend they money on everything under the sun except your business/service and then will complain about your prices or ask for something for free. If you clean windows your personal relationships will surely to ask you to clean their windows for free or say “man I gotta get you to clean my windows” or everytime they see you they’ll say “hey man I’m still going to get them windows clean we gotta make it happen”.
Entrepreneurs are often spending their own money funding their businesses and their business do not run on lip service. So saying man “I see you with your jewelry line” is not supporting the jewelry line in any shape or form. Yeah you see me with my jewelry line, you ain’t blind beloved! So what is financial compensation simple!
To support your entrepreneur friend/family through financial compensation is to pay full price for the product/service without distraught or complaint. Simple its putting your money where your mouth is. When you do that you are showing the businessperson you care for them because you care enough to spend money on their dreams. Spending your own hard earned money with someone you know is the most genuine thing you can do because you’re putting food on their table.
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you show true support!!
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