Single-speaker YouTube advice by Omar Zenhom on how to tell your spouse/partner you plan to leave a 9-to-5 to start a business. The speaker recommends treating the conversation like an investor pitch: demonstrate when the venture becomes profitable, how many sales are needed, and the timeline, because partners are effectively investing time, trust, and potentially money.
How do you tell your husband, your wife, your partner in life, you're ready to leave your 9 to 5 job and start your own business? This is one of the biggest, scariest conversations you'll ever have, and it's also one of the most important. Here's the bottom line. The reason why this conversation is so important is that is, if you can't sell your business idea to your husband, your wife or partner, how will you sell it to your first customer? How are you going to actually convince a stranger that that has no vested interest in your success to believe in you and your product? Show them. At what point are you profitable? How many sales does that take? How long will that take to make that many sales? Walk them through as if you're pitching to an investor because they are investing their trust, their time, their attention, and probably their money, too.
