Business Bootstrapping and the Art of Winning Your Clients Over Before Selling a Thing! with LaShonda Brown artwork
Thrive off the Ladder

Business Bootstrapping and the Art of Winning Your Clients Over Before Selling a Thing! with LaShonda Brown

  • S6E3
  • 22:59
  • December 8th 2023

Ever wonder how entrepreneurs sell out their services and products as soon as the doors open? It’s because they offer so much value to their potential customers for free that these clients know that they will get the results they want. But to do that, you have to let yourself be seen, let yourself be heard, and trust that you know what you’re talking about. 


In this week's episode, we’re sitting down with LaShonda Brown. LaShonda is a tech educator and YouTube expert who teaches service providers how to work less and live more by leveraging tech and YouTube. Her YouTube channel @BootstrapBizAdvice helps thousands of entrepreneurs in real time keep their profit margins high and expenses low.


LaShonda Brown tells us why potential clients were begging her to let them pay her. The value that she had to offer was so impactful that people were asking for her Venmo after just a few conversations. And here on the Thrive Off the Ladder Podcast, she’s going to teach you how you can do the same and how you can do it sustainably so that you don’t burn yourself out. 




About the Host:

Twanna Toliver is an action-inducing and results-igniting Creative Business Coach. She is dedicated to providing ambitious women currently in corporate careers with the foundational tools to turn their creativity into a profitable business.


Known for her straight-up coaching style, Twanna pushes women to break through their self-limiting beliefs and shows them how to step into their seemingly impossible dreams.


Twanna proudly stands as the quintessential accountability partner for women ready to level up their income, dive into entrepreneurism, and monetize their creativity.


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Thrive off the Ladder

About the Show:

Welcome to Thrive off the Ladder, the podcast that gives women the encouragement and guidance to take their talents outside the corporate office. Through candid conversations and wisdom sharing we deep dive into the evolution of work and how to step off the ladder that wasn’t build for us in the first place!

About the Host:

I'm Twanna Toliver, an encourager by trade my purpose is to support the hardest working beings on the planet in their quest for career fulfillment. I want us all to thrive not just survive in our professional lives.

The work I currently do for a living and lights me up is a Business Strategist. In 2016 I founded She Creates Collective a professional development hub where women entrepreneurs learn how to grow their business through strategy and growth marketing.

My mission is to simplify business while giving those with less resources the tools to generate consistent revenue. I'm a sought after mentor and business advisor for leading small business development programs such as Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, (NFTE), Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, (DWEN) and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business, (10KSB).

Learn More: https://www.twannatoliver.com/