Thank you to SHOUTOUT ATLANTA for the March article feature in the …”To start or not to start, that is the aspiring entrepreneur’s question” section.
Check out the article: https://shoutoutatlanta.com/meet-sharvette-mitchell-marketing-consultant-internet-talk-radio-host-author/
Here is the first part of the interview:
We had the good fortune of connecting with Sharvette Mitchell and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Sharvette, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
“WAIT! We can’t print this stuff without putting a website address on it!” Those were the words I said in early 2006 while sitting at the kitchen table of my friend Edwinette Moses, where we had spent the past few hours working on business cards, brochures, magnets, and other marketing materials for her budding new business.
I have always had a creative knack and back then dabbled in using Microsoft Publisher to design programs and flyers for church and other things. In addition, my bachelor’s degree in marketing from Virginia Commonwealth University made me a prime resource to help Edwinette create items to advertise and market her business.
As we pulled up VistaPrint.com on the computer to see printing options for the materials we had developed, I had enough foresight to push pause and stop us, because I realized that Edwinette needed to put a WEBSITE address on all of her collateral. We had just one problem – she did not have a website.
So I took it upon myself to learn how to create a simple but “rinky dinky” website. Trust me, it was a humble beginning; but what I did not know was that this action would be the seed that birthed something amazing which was Mitchell Productions.
After I created Edwinette’s pink and green website, I turned to helping my church build its presence on the internet.
People soon started asking me to help them build a website. I created two or three more FREE websites before I stopped and thought… “Don’t people pay for this? Ain’t I suppose to get paid for this?” Yes – I said it just like that, bad English and all! At this point, I realized I had a valid business. People who have problems pay for solutions to their problems. Here I was, creating solutions and enjoying myself in the process. I soon formalized my services and Mitchell Productions, LLC was born. I threw up an advertisement post on MySpace in 2007 and I gained the first two paying customers who did not know me or anyone connected to me. They saw my MySpace post and realized that I had a solution for their problem.
Mitchell Productions has grown and expanded over the years and we no longer offer web design services. We have continued to identify marketing problems that small business owners have and offer solutions to those problems.
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