For this week, I will be answering the second question of the Ladies of Hive Community Contest #72 that says; ***Where are you struggling in becoming an entrepreneur?***

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We all know that in this world most especially in my country, becoming an entrepreneur is the best and only option for anyone who wishes to gain financial freedom because monthly paying jobs are not enough to take care of our needs and that of our families and most especially with our current economic downfall.

It's either you are being a monthly worker or an entrepreneur to be able to have enough income which has become everyone's dream now including the students of my country which I am not an exception to.

Since the Covid 19 lockdown, up until now, getting a monthly paying job has been a No go area for me especially because of the challenges I went through in my former job but notwithstanding, during this period, I have empowered myself on some skills that I thought would be needful for my life journey but fortunately, I have not been lucky with being able to startup such skills to be able to fetch me a reasonable amount of money like I have seen others did.

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Secondly, for this past year, I was opportune to meet people who are involved in businesses that helped them earn while at home but I could not get myself involved because of just one problem which is hindering me from becoming an entrepreneur and it is the problem of my poor ***marketing skills***

I pretty well know how poor I can be in my marketing skills and many times I wish I could learn how to do that. I am poor in both online marketing and physical marketing, I find it difficult to get the right audience for my products.

A few months ago, I contacted a lady who was into the cosmetic business and I told her my intention of joining the business, she told me about the business and I found it worthwhile but at a point, I became afraid because I was afraid people will not get to buy the products most especially because of the cost and since I am not someone who uses cosmetics, I felt some other persons will not see the need to want to use their money to get such products.
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I would love to invite @mhizerbee  and @udygold to participate in this contest and here is the [link](https://peakd.com/hive-124452/@ladiesofhive/ladies-of-hive-community-contest-72) to the contest.