Where to Find Business Mentors
Copyright © Agnes Seow
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Knowing that you need to look into finding business mentors and actually going after it are two different things altogether. Of course, if you remember that the road to business failure is paved with good intentions, the urgency to get such a relationship set up and thriving is even more underscored. Yet where would you go to find business mentors? After all, you do not want to simply visit the competition that is down the street or across town and introduce yourself as a newbie in search of a mentor; then again, why not?

Where to find business mentors is not as difficult as you might imagine the process to be. Granted, your competition across the street might not be a good candidate for mentoring, but if your competitor is located across town, she or he might be willing to help you get on your feet, and in return for a non-compete clause that outlines your willingness to stay away from your mentor’s turf, you might find that you are not only entering in a most beneficial business mentoring relationship, but that you are quite possibly also on the ground floor of a business alliance that might have you beat out some of the competition altogether!

If your business does not lend itself to this form of relationship do not fret; business mentors may be found at your local chamber of commerce and even if you are not in exactly the same line of business, many of the tasks are similar. Marketing, customer satisfaction, compliance, order fulfillment, and vendor relationships are all common aspects of a variety of different kinds of businesses, and therefore how to perform well in all of these business components may be taught by any kind of business person to one who is new to the game. Sure, it would be best to find someone in your industry, but sometimes this is not feasible.

As a matter of fact, you may actually find that searching for business mentors in adjacent businesses is a valuable experience not only because of the wisdom they have to offer, but also because it will help you to understand a closely related business that you might consider branching out into at some point in the future. Even if you are not currently entertaining thoughts and dreams of expansion, you will find that such a mindset is indeed a wise consideration when you are thinking in the long term for your business’s viability.

If all else fails, there are online business mentors who are willing to forego the face to face interaction and who will instead make themselves available to you on an email or chat room basis. There is nothing wrong with the approach, but it will not fulfill your need for day to day and face to face meetings which at times are the best way of receiving much needed mentoring. Additionally, you miss out on the opportunity to shadow your business mentors by accepting their invitations to meet them at their place of business and see them in action. There is so much to learn even from just watching interactions and body language! On the other hand, if such a relationship simply is not feasible, the online option is better than nothing!


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