Create a Tiny Business? Or be happy working for someone else?

Hey there! Welcome back to Focus on You! A podcast dedicated to the individual with something to say but not quite sure how to say it. I’m Dachia.

I started blogging in 2003, if I remember. I was learning about and getting into social media back in 2009.. maybe 2008… and was helping clients navigate the online world in 2009. As I learned about it, I was teaching a client or handling the task myself on their behalf.

At the time, I was living on a natural horsemanship eventing facility. If you are not horse person, in a nutshell, it was somewhat specialized training of horses.

I come from a horse business background. Raised in the industry and working in off and on for 20 years since. So, I had a great deal of knowledge about not just horses but the business of.

As Social Media came about and started to grow and take off in various directions, I messed around on various platforms.

At that time, there were dozens of oddball sites where a person could sign up and create a profile and upload an image and a description, and I added myself with my first name, to every single one I could find. I wanted to lock my name down.

I had already purchased my first name as a domain in all 3 extensions available at that time, in 2004.. or somewhere around then. .com, .net, and .org.

I still have them. But only in the last few months have I figured out what I can do with them.

And of course now there are dozens of new extensions.

Yeah, it made sense at the time to buy the 3 and lock my name down… but no way am I gonna try to buy any more extensions with a purpose already in mind for it.

I come from an entrepreneurial family. Several family and individual businesses in the mix. And I come from a pretty creative and expressive gene from my mom’s side.

However, none of the businesses in the family were ever really successful.

I think they all had the potential to be, but for various reasons, such as we didn’t keep at it long enough. Or we were not flexible as times changed… or… we just didn’t make good decisions or just didn’t make decisions when we needed to.

The family horse business produced incredibly beautiful and versatile Arabian horses with great attitudes and temperaments.

My mother was a photographer and artist and in the last several years of her life she was doing shows and selling paintings. She died early, from cancer. But given her talent and drive, she could have been farmer successful with her art.

My sister was an incredible horse trainer. Had zero business skills and kept hooking up with guys who also had no skills with money or business. And when she died, also from cancer, she was broke.

I mention these two because one, our mom, could have had a successful business with a bit more time. My sister never would have no matter how much time she had.

My sister would have been better off working elsewhere tome her bills and training horses for pleasure as a side hustle or hubby.

OR… hooking up with a guy who supported her passion but was not a nimrod.

I’ve often fluctuated back and forth between , am I cut out to be my own boss or should I just keep working for somebody else and do this stuff as a side hustle or hobby?

My business plan is good. My idea is awesome. And I am blessed to be very good with numbers. But is it enough?

I don’t know. Right now, today, I’m still on the self-employed, build a tiny empire path. But I do still have a job until this starts to make enough money and I think that will be a couple years.

And my goal is that I am a work-from-home, stay at home, single dog-mom.

And I also want to provide financial freedom for my brother.

And honestly, it really doesn’t take all that much. I don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire… We’d be solid at 100,000 a year. Really… that’s it.

What I want to urge you to do is figure out, or at least start the thinking process, as to whether you are on the right path to building your own small business, or whether you would actually be happier working elsewhere and making your bills and doing something on the side to express yourself.

And don’t kick yourself for not knowing or going back and forth.

What you can do is take a job that pays the bills, and do your side hustle like it was a business. Keep at it for a while. See if you are still in love with it at that higher level. Roll around it.

And be ok with that idea morphing into something else. And then something else. I started doing side hustles in like 2000. At that time I was doing health coaching of horsemen. That slid into business coaching for horsemen. That slid into small biz builders. That morphed to include online platforms, and that whole thing morphed into closet creatives, or anybody with something to say or share and not knowing how to do it.

So, I’m sort of an online platform building coach for newbies.

If your idea becomes a small business, and makes you happy, I’m excited and happy for you. If it remains a side gig and makes you happy… I’m excited and happy for you.

But the process is really the same for both paths.. You need to do the same things whether you are just sharing a message or service or product or you are building a business around that message, service or product.

If your project involves the online world, to reach potential clients… or to share your art to the masses, then my goal is to help save you hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars and millions of tears of frustration trying to figure out what you need do and how to do it.

Whether you decide you need a simple starter website or a podcast or just to be on a few social media platforms better than you are right now, I can help you.

I’ve been there myself. I’ve had clients who were close to just giving up because they couldn’t find current accurate answers to the most basic of questions, such as what are the dimensions of images for various social Medias.

What is the demographic for x social media?

How do I build a simple website on my own?

How do I start a podcast on a shoestring budget?

And a thousand more questions are answered in an easy to use membership site that saves you from the endless rabbit holes of a typical search.

The doors are open. Go try the 5 day free trial. Head to Dachia.org. You can also go through Dachia.com. the .net is not set up yet. I’m thinking I’ll create a community there for closet creatives to chat without all the BS that comes along with social Media platforms, like the fake news, the politics, the name calling…

I do think facebook will be around for quite a while longer, but I also think that more small groups will be forming on private sites. No discussion of off-topic stuff. No ads. No rabbit holes.

That’s my thinking for creating a community as part of this membership. But it’s not there yet.

If you have ANY trouble getting into the membership site or the free trial, please let me know. I’m super easy to find and connect with. Start with an email at dachia@dachia.com, but you can also leave me a voicemail through the button on the side of any of my websites.

I’ll be back next week! See ya then.