You Don’t Need to Be Ready to Start Getting Clients

Grow Your Local Business

Grow Your Local Business
You Don’t Need to Be Ready to Start Getting Clients
Oct 06, 2026 Episode 175 Leslie Presnall

Are you waiting on the website, the logo, the professional photos or the business cards before you really start marketing your business?

When you don’t have those things yet, it’s so easy to feel behind... like everyone else has a “real business” except you.

Or like it will be easier to get clients once you have these things.

In this episode, I’m talking to the local business owner who hasn’t set up all the things yet. I’m sharing why you’re allowed to start right now and why starting messy might actually help you build a better business faster than waiting ever could.


Tune into this episode to learn:

  • The expensive way local business owners “set up” their business without ever actually marketing it
  • What one of my students did when she didn’t have the photos, the branding or even know how to use Canva
  • Why starting messy gives you something the perfect setup never will


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