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#1 Mistake Every Entrepreneur Makes

How to Avoid it!

Burcu Onaranel Erten
3 min readNov 22, 2024

Trying to wear all the hats 🧢👒🎩⛑️🎓!

When you become an entrepreneur, it feels like you’re beyond any rules. You’re a fireball, making your own decisions, setting goals, and ready to take on the world.

Yes, yes. You also feel like leaving your 9-to-5 job means you’re free and have endless time to focus on your business. You think you can do anything and everything — be the accountant, the social media manager, the boss, the salesperson, and the creator of your products or services.

You wear all the hats.

You try — but here’s the truth: it’s going to catch up with you at some point, in some way.

I’ve been there. I’ve tried wearing all the fancy hats you can think of!

When I first launched my business, JOYY! LLC, in January 2019, I already had two clients for social media marketing and branding. By March, I had a total of seven clients — both in coaching and marketing. I was traveling for training, working hard for my clients, and living in the USA on my own. That meant I was also doing everything else — laundry, cooking, you name it.

By April, I burned out. I couldn’t handle all the client work and the life I was juggling. Why…

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Burcu Onaranel Erten
Burcu Onaranel Erten

Written by Burcu Onaranel Erten

Let's Create Your Authentic Brand and Life | International Motivational Speaker | Certified Professional Life Coach | The Coffee o'clock Pod. YouTube @joyyburcu

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