There’s always room to grow, better ourselves and make more of an impact on the world. This is especially true for young female entrepreneurs.Even if you already have a successful organization that’s doing well in your community and helping solve real issues, there’s always room to do more—to help more people, reach more places and improve more lives.
Do you want to increase the impact of your own entrepreneurial efforts? Then try these five tips:
- Think globally – While making social progress is always a good thing, completely solving a problem is always the preferred action. Your efforts may be cutting down on homelessness, improving water access overseas, or bettering the education system, but wouldn’t it be great if you could end those issues altogether? What if you could eliminate homelessness completely, give people all over the world access to water, and have the best education system for all? This is the mindset young female entrepreneurs need to have to increase their impact and continue expanding their organization’s work. Always be thinking of ways to make your solutions more accessible, so that you can reach more people here at home as well as around the world. Maybe it’s a downloadable app, a groundbreaking new invention, or simply figuring out how to make a product more affordable or more accessible to people around the world. Use your creativity to scale your impact as wide and as far as you can.
- Collaborate – There’s no shame in asking for help or working with another person. Sure, it’d be nice to solve a serious problem on your own, but for the tough issues, two heads are generally better than one. Besides, there are thousands of other people out there who just might have the ideas, experience and knowledge necessary to take your efforts and your company to the next level. Get in contact with other entrepreneurs and thinkers in your space, and work to find some common ground to collaborate on. With two entrepreneurial minds at work, who knows what good could come of it!
- Create teams – In addition to collaborating with others yourself, you should also create teams that can collaborate separately. Implement one team to work directly with the people you serve overseas, create another to continue researching and developing solutions, and put together a third that will help with actual implementation of your products and services. Build a team of bona fide experts who are great at what they do and who can become real brand representatives for your company. This will not only improve your organization’s capabilities, but it will also expand your reach significantly.
- Listen to those you serve – If your company works to end trafficking, improve education in Africa or prevent infectious disease in third world countries, take time to get to know the people you aim to help. Listen to their needs, challenges, and how they’re feeling. Use what you learn to power your ideas, and let your company be a voice for the otherwise voiceless.
- Work with your target audience to further your efforts – The people your company serves should be your biggest advocates, so give them the tools they need to use your products well and spread the word. Visit with them, and show them how to use your tools, products and solutions to their advantage. Train them on explaining the solution to others, or even work to implement some sort of employment program that allows them to spread the word about your organization and earn money at the same time.
Young female entrepreneurs can achieve anything they set their minds to, whether it’s combatting childhood obesity, bringing clean water to third world countries, or improving the local foster care system. By working together, being creative and listening to those you aim to help, you can make a real, marked difference on the world.
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