6 Essential Tips to Kickstart a Business

If you’re anything like me, you don’t want to spend your life working for companies that other people built..

Originally published on millennialmoderator.com by Natalie Hilscher

I spent a several years watching webinars about creating start-up businesses and researching how to begin. During these years, I never took action. Does this sound familiar? I knew I wanted to start, but it didn’t seem like something that could turn into reality. Finally, after graduating college with a marketing degree and meeting my significant other and business partner Scott Mills while working abroad in Shanghai, we decided it was time to begin.

In the beginning, we were a beauty company. We very quickly realized neither of us were passionate about designing and developing beauty products; we’ve always been far more passionate about marketing. We completely changed directions and started our current company, De Lu Marketing & Consulting. After only about 9 months of working with clients, we’re wonderfully busy — sometimes perhaps a little too busy — and thoroughly enjoying it. It’s hard to describe how rewarding it is to finally work for ourselves, and we’d love for you to have…