{"id":7785,"date":"2022-09-05T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afirmacijakulture.org\/young-people-as-entrepreneurs-entrepreneurship101\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T16:13:23","slug":"young-people-as-entrepreneurs-entrepreneurship101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afirmacijakulture.org\/en\/young-people-as-entrepreneurs-entrepreneurship101\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people as entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Entrepreneurship is open to everyone! With that in mind, we had an interview with Milica Obrenovi\u0107, a young entrepreneur and participant in several projects that we implement, in order to promote her business, but at the same time motivate and inform young people from the NEET group to start their first entrepreneurial steps.<\/p>\n\n
In high school I worked as a waitress and for those years I had a great salary. I realized that I don’t have time to spend it because, regardless of whether there is work or not, I have to be there for 8 or more hours, after which I don’t feel like doing anything except resting. That’s when I decided that I would find or create for myself an opportunity to work with flexible working hours.
A little later, I got acquainted with the topic of marketing and social networks. I researched, studied and found myself in it. The creative freedom, the opportunity to work from where I want and be free when I want, which this job provides me, is a perfect combination of what I like to do, what I am good at and what is profitable from the business side.<\/p>\n\n
The biggest difficulty I still face is that I am much younger than my colleagues. People easily say ‘you young people know those networks better’ until they have to pay someone young to teach them about it. Also, initially it was difficult to build credibility and gain people’s trust due to age, but at the end of the day, hard work gets noticed and appreciated. I was positively surprised by the female support I encountered when I embarked on the entrepreneurial path. Women who found my online profiles and came across my work gave me support, advice, ideas, guidance…I was lucky to come across them.<\/p>\n\n
Most of the things I needed I learned on the fly and worked my way up until I got what I needed. Over time, I started investing in different educations about different branches of marketing. The best advice I received was not to learn about marketing but about communication. When I started working on my communication skills, I understood better what people need, how I can offer it to them and be a better salesperson. Thanks to that, my business progressed, and the idea I started with developed into an even better one.<\/p>\n\n
Tools for scheduling announcements, emails, reminders help me the most in organizing my time. I schedule everything possible. A big advantage is that all training and consultations are online, so communication with clients, preparation of materials, work itself is much easier. I mostly use Google calendar, Facebook creator studio and stickers that I stick above my desk.<\/p>\n\n