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SALT LAKE CITY — From designing and promoting blankets to creating leis and tropical floral preparations to promoting plant-based, vegan-backed items, entrepreneurs in Utah and across the nation are forging forward on this considerably murky economic system.
“Persons are typically optimistic about getting these companies up and off the bottom,” mentioned Laura Goldberg, chief advertising and marketing officer with Fixed Contact, an organization that focuses on dealing with advertising and marketing and communications for small companies.
Goldberg says they’ve discovered tough financial instances can really spur the entrepreneurial spirit.
“Individuals say, ‘OK, I am unable to go discover a job right here the place I may need usually appeared. I have been doing this factor on the facet for a very long time, looks like now’s the time.'”
Thirty p.c of individuals surveyed by Fixed Contact say they might begin a facet hustle in a bitter economic system. And 45% mentioned they might begin their very own enterprise or counsel that path to a good friend or relative.
And even in economies saturated with massive field companies, Goldberg says new providers or merchandise can nonetheless discover markets, whether or not it is raspberry shakes, or protein bars with the chief ingredient of crickets or cleaning soap constituted of goat milk.
“It could be that it really works nice, or it smells nice, or it seems nice, or no matter it’s, there’s at all times an angle and house for small companies,” she mentioned.
Whereas startup prices are a giant barrier, about 45% of these surveyed mentioned they may launch their very own enterprise or facet hustle with $10,000 or much less of their financial savings.
Two issues Goldberg says an entrepreneur wants in a superb or unhealthy economic system: the power to promote, so customers know the service or product exists, and fervour for what the entrepreneur is doing.
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Matt GephardtMatt Gephardt has labored in tv information for greater than 20 years, and as a reporter since 2010. He’s now a client investigative reporter for KSL TV. Yow will discover Matt on Twitter at @KSLmatt or e mail him at matt@ksl.com.
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