How To Find Mentors For Your Business | Start Your Business Without Money | EP 9

How to find mentors Since you have never done a business in your life, what you want to do is find mentors. Mentors are going to be the people who lead you, guide you, how you should be doing your business, how you should be conducting your business, what are the things which you need to learn, you need to unlearn in order to start your business. The best way to find mentors is to go on LinkedIn and say, for example, you want to solve water problems and you want to have water filter service. So you go out and search for top 10 companies on Google who do water filter service. And then you take those businesses and you search them on LinkedIn and then you follow those businesses and you read everything there is to know about them on LinkedIn, on the Internet, on YouTube. you find out who are the people who work there, you study them, you don't approach them till you know about them. Dale Carnegie in his book mentions that if you, if Dale Carnegie in his book mentions, and when I was going to have a meeting with someone, before I met them, I investigated them at least one hour, and this is when he did not have any internet, he was walking around their offices just to learn about them. So before you approach anyone make this a habit before you approach anyone in your life spend 15 minutes to an hour investigating them learning about them seeing what they doing out there and what is it that you can offer them also So once you have done your homework approach these people and say hi sir how are you My name is Rehan, John or Harry, and I have started with my friends a company which wants to solve water filter problems. We are looking forward to having guidance from you and we think you can be a great mentor for us. We would love to set up a Skype call with you so we can learn more about you. And we would like to start off by interviewing you as we found you on the internet that you have done this, this, this in your life. We want to learn more from you. So now you're offering them your time to interview them so that their interview can then be published on medium.com by you or YouTube and Facebook so that they also get exposure. And now here's your opportunity to actually connect with this person who has done this and that already in their life, who can guide you. And this is a great way to connect with them by just doing a Skype interview with them. You can record this interview on Zoom.us or you can do it on Facebook Live, which also records it automatically. You can also record it on Skype and then later publish it on YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. So this would be a great exposure for your mentor and then they will be happy to say yes to you when you need guidance from them. This is a great way to find mentors. You need at least 10 mentors in your space so that they can keep guiding you about this.