How To Raise Capital In Times of Crisis | Katie Nelson | The Lower Third

Serial-entrepreneur, known as The Sales Catalyst and business coach extraordinaire, Katie Nelson lives life with her positive mindset well in hand.

Sales being the ultimate place for rejection, she learned early on, the way to overcome feelings of failure and rejection come from within, first! She attributes her positive mindset to her success as a business owner and, in addition, to providing her clients with razor sharp business tools her biggest value add is that she leaves them with the ability to always see the silver linings!

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Key Takeaways:

Katie talks about who she is, what she does and how she became who she is [1:44] Katie talks about the origin of her business [2:14] Katie talks about a breakup with business partner, how to deal with it at the moment and how to overcome it and move on successfully [5:10] Katie talks about why it is important to talk to other people when you have a problem and ask them for help [6:06] Katie talks about money, how she got the funding or capital to start a business from scratch after the breakup [8:49] Katie talks about business cards and if they are important to have when starting a business [10:20] Katie and Molly discusses if it is important to have a business card when starting a business [11:25] Katie talks about sales and explains which the truest form of sales is [13:04] Katie talks about the importance of giving the right information in business [13:13] Katie also talks about other effective ways she used to raise money to fund the business she was going to start [13:35] Katie talks about what she prefers in terms of whether to take a loan or allow people to buy shares from your business [15:21] Katie talks about when her new business started and how she funded it [16:15] Katie talks about how COVID 19 crisis is impacting her business [16:56] Katie talks about the effect the pandemic had on her clients [19:08] Molly talks about business as a risk that you have to take whether there’s pandemic or not [21:00] Katie talks about why you should not compare your business to another business [23:17] Katie talks about what she changed in her business other than moving to virtual due to the pandemic [26:05] Katie and Molly discuss time created due to the pandemic and working from home and how they are investing in their time wisely [29:17] Katie talks about the cash flow issues that was caused by the pandemic in her business [29:50] Katie talks about the solutions she came up with to try and resolve the cash flow issues that was caused by the pandemic [32:07] Katie talks about why she took more loans during this pandemic session [33:44] Katie gives the best advice to all business owners or entrepreneurs that are coming up in this time of the pandemic [36:40]

Quotes Mentioned:

“Activity breeds activity. No activity breeds no activity.”

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