MBA2735 Q&A Wednesday: Is It Too Early To Sell To My Followers?

Today's q and a Wednesday's question from Joe is a good one. He asks, I'm putting out content on social media. I've got about 75,000 followers across social platforms, and I'm starting to build momentum. But I'm not sure if I have a big enough following to start selling to my followers. Is it too early? The short answer is no. It's not too early. And, actually, I wanna flip this question on its head. If you're running a business or you want to run a business, then selling isn't optional. It's a part of the job. In today's episode, I'm gonna break down why selling early is not a problem. And in fact, I recommend it because there's gonna be a lot of things you're gonna get out of it other than just sales and how to get started if you're thinking about starting to sell to your following on social. Let's get into it. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zdenholm, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business. We read every single review. Seriously, it's how we know what's helping and what to dive deeper in on the next episode. So So if you got twenty seconds, leave a quick review and tell me what you want more of. I'd love to hear from you. A lot of people think that selling is something that you do after you've made it, after you have a massive audience or you've had viral growth, tons of validation, but in my opinion, that's backwards. If you're building a business, you need customers early, not just for revenue though, but for education, for your own information. It's like r and d so you understand who you are serving. Customers, people that pay you money, are the best people to tell you which direction you should be moving in. They teach you things that content will never do because they're actually invested in your information, in your products, in your services, invested in you. So when you start selling, even to a small group, you immediately begin learning. You learn what people are actually willing to pay for, which is huge. You'll learn what they complain about because when you know what they complain about, you know how to build solutions, products for them. You also learn what they misunderstand about your brand, your business, your even your content that you're putting out there. And you learn what they really value versus what they say they value. People are funny. And you wanna know the truth, you're gonna have to ask them to pay. Because when people pay, they're invested, and that's when the truth comes out. They say, you know, with their dollars, yes, I value this. In my opinion, that feedback loop is gold because it really allows you to understand how to serve your audience better. When you're only …