Why You Don't Have To Write Your Business Plan with Lida Citroën
"Part of being entrepreneur is that sense of unknowing." - Lida Citroën
In this week's episode, we have Lida Citroën. She was in corporate America for 20 years moving from one industry to the next. It's not that she can't do one job perfectly, it's more of accomplishing so much in that one position and then challenging herself to be as successful in another one, in a totally different industry.
She established Lida360 last 2008 in the worst economy. She thought of helping businesses to do strategic branding and global positioning. Lida turned these trying times to guide other businesses on how to position themselves to be competitive in a very complicated market.
Lida connected with other business owners and had informational interviews with them. Surprisingly, the advice that she got consistently from other successful business owners, was to NOT have a business plan yet. She was told that creating a business plan at the onset will cause you to miss the organic part of the business. She mentioned that as she started her business thinking that she will help businesses in doing marketing, as she was doing for years. And then personal branding found her and she fell in love with it.
A personal brand is a narrative or a value proposition that defines yourself. She believes every business, in every industry, should have this. It is creating a story where you tell who you are authentically and with consistency. And this is where you connect with your people, human to human.
Check out her new book entitled Control The Narrative: An Executive's Guide to Building, Pivoting, and Repairing your Reputation.
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Visit Lida's website: https://www.lida360.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lida360/
Learn more about Katie and Next Step Social Communications:
Clubhouse: joinclubhouse.com/@katiebrinkley
https://www.nextstepsocialcommunications.com
linkedin.com/in/katiebrinkley
https://www.instagram.com/iamkatiebrinkley/
In this week's episode, we have Lida Citroën. She was in corporate America for 20 years moving from one industry to the next. It's not that she can't do one job perfectly, it's more of accomplishing so much in that one position and then challenging herself to be as successful in another one, in a totally different industry.
She established Lida360 last 2008 in the worst economy. She thought of helping businesses to do strategic branding and global positioning. Lida turned these trying times to guide other businesses on how to position themselves to be competitive in a very complicated market.
Lida connected with other business owners and had informational interviews with them. Surprisingly, the advice that she got consistently from other successful business owners, was to NOT have a business plan yet. She was told that creating a business plan at the onset will cause you to miss the organic part of the business. She mentioned that as she started her business thinking that she will help businesses in doing marketing, as she was doing for years. And then personal branding found her and she fell in love with it.
A personal brand is a narrative or a value proposition that defines yourself. She believes every business, in every industry, should have this. It is creating a story where you tell who you are authentically and with consistency. And this is where you connect with your people, human to human.
Check out her new book entitled Control The Narrative: An Executive's Guide to Building, Pivoting, and Repairing your Reputation.
Like the show? Keep Katie running and show her your support!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katiebrinkley
Visit Lida's website: https://www.lida360.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lida360/
Learn more about Katie and Next Step Social Communications:
Clubhouse: joinclubhouse.com/@katiebrinkley
https://www.nextstepsocialcommunications.com
linkedin.com/in/katiebrinkley
https://www.instagram.com/iamkatiebrinkley/
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