Feel like I’m just barred from being an entrepreneur

For the past year or so I’ve been trying so many small businesses with low costs and whilst I’ve failed at all and spent hours and hours grinding, I think I’ve learned a lot..

However, the only thing I was successful (somewhat) in was freelancing. Upwork became more greedy and competitive taking a large chunk and I was relying on the occasional 1-2 small projects every month or so. I maintained and still have 100% completed job and top rated freelancer badge.

I knew this is what I wanted to do - leave the 9-5 life after saving some money and work on my own. So I decided I needed a proper company to get proper clients.

I moved my skills from freelancing to trying build a consultancy in a more niche field as I figured from being a consultant in my last job would help me out.

Investing in ads and getting nowhere, I looked at other ways, I invested in tools like apollo and started with cold emails, realizing it’s a bad strategy, I decided I need to find people in my target audience actively looking for my services. So the past week I’ve been doing brain numbing search and outreach for each person with personalized emails.

While the open rates are much higher now at 20-30% and most people will take the time to explain why they don’t need my service, i feel I’ve gotten absolutely nowhere.

At the same time my family is pressuring me daily expecting results and pushing me back into the depressing corporate job life.

I really don’t know what to do except for keep pushing and pushing with emails since they’ve had the most feedback.

But I’m writing this after spending all day writing during office hours and having zero replies. It’s been a huge blow today.

I’m giving free trials and have a strong CTA and USP. Just nothing, not even a booking call. I had one guy who was completely weird and asked about my location more than my service only to then ask what my company does…

It just seems all these months I’ve tried to start something, it’s as if the world of entrepreneurship has locked me out and doesn’t even want to give me a shot.

Worst of all networking has been really tough as it always comes down to “what’s in it for me?” And most of the time it’s, pay me a few thousand and I’ll teach you things i learned from YouTube.