Your friend started a business and you want to support them but it doesn’t make sense to buy their product or service. As an entrepreneur, as a family of entrepreneurs who served entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship is hard. Here are easy, free ways to support the entrepreneurs in your life.
- Follow their company’s social media channels
- Subscribe to their marketing newsletter
- Like or Share something they posted about their business on social media
- Offer to be a sounding board for their ideas
- Connect them to people who might be able to give them valuable advice
- Connect them to people who might be potential clients
- Ask about their business, the way you would ask about their family
- Understand that they may have to prioritize their business—the way you’d be sympathetic to parents with their kids
- Understand that their work is personal, that the boundary between work and life for entrepreneurs is thin and sometimes nonexistent