 Hello everybody! So let's talk about if you were planning to open your own teeth whitening practice and it's been put on hold because well we all have to stay home and teeth whitening would definitely be considered a non-essential service. But there is so much that you can do in the meantime. Sorry I can't stop looking at my dog. Her name is Daisy. Say hello Daisy. She was just kind of resting but now she wants to say hi to everybody and look out the window apparently. Anyways so there are things you can do in the meantime. Meaning you can really think about your advertising, your marketing. If you haven't yet make sure to start a page or a group on Facebook. I was actually just talking to my students about this because we're still teaching our teeth whitening course. We were having in-person classes but now it's all online until further notice. But a page and a group are different. A group on Facebook allows your customers or people to post and interact more. A page they can't really post unless they comment on things you have posted. So it's totally up to you what you want to do. As an example my tutoring. I have that as a page just because I didn't know any better when I had made it. But my actual dental L mobile hygiene business. I have that as a group because I wanted patients to be able to interact and you know say hi post things but that's totally up to you. But at the very least you guys that's what you should be doing now. So think of things like think of a good image that you want on like as your profile picture. Okay it doesn't have to be a logo necessarily but it should be professional. Even if you just simply go online and look up teeth whitening. You know pick a stock image somewhere and then have that as your professional timeline photo. Because even if you just simply post something and say yay I am so excited coming soon. And then post a picture of nice white teeth. People will start to wonder like oh my goodness what's coming soon. Post that on your main page on Facebook on Instagram whatever. And then post a link to your either now new page or your group on Facebook that will be specific for your business. Okay that is important because if people don't know you have one they don't know you have one. So when you do open and then when you're set and ready to go to make some money then you can get started. There is no harm in letting people know you are opening up in May 2020 you know or until further notice you know something like that. There is actually a dental hygienist who is opening up her own business and she was supposed to open end of March but that's obviously not happening. But she is still posting updates like when she gets her countertops in when she gets her new sinks in you know because people are watching even if they don't like or comment people are watching. So that's the first thing you should do is take the time to find some good quality images and even make your own logo. Take the time to go on vistaprint.ca.com whatever and just make your your own cards. You don't have to purchase anything yet but just sort of make your own save that template and then when you're making some money or when you know at least you are going to open then you can have that right because especially with vistaprint they have sales every so often. Never buy the business cards at full price because they will go on sale. I just had a full class about this with my students actually yesterday where all we did was talk about Instagram and Facebook and vistaprint. So there's a lot to learn. I can leave some links for you guys on the bottom. There's a program that I like to use called Canva. So canva.ca you can pay for it but I just actually still use the free version and you can make your own pretty much anything. Templates you can make your own logos even business cards you can make your own brochures you can make your own everything. So that's a good place to get started even if you just want to start making your own images for like Instagram, Facebook. In fact I can actually show you guys right now because I was just making something. Let me just share my screen. So you guys look so you can literally let's say you want to be more active on Facebook. Search through the different options that they have and let's say oops sorry guys I didn't know that that was going to get big. Let's say you like they all look pretty nice say let's say you like I'm looking for the free one specifically. Okay let's just say you like this one but let's say you're thinking okay these aren't my colors so also think of certain things like for your own business think of your own colors. You want to stand out. I have a whole we actually did a class on on you know how to stand out picking your own colors picking your own themes so that when people see this they will know oh that is her business so that's actually a whole class in itself but let's just say here so let's say you don't like blue you want pink let's say here you want pink and black I don't know there you go okay you can change this up I'm just literally doing this very very fast but you see how like you can do anything let's say you want to change how that looks add different text or what some of it you do have to pay for so just sort of look for the ones you don't have to pay for for now because you don't have to pay for it like if you don't want to let's say you want to pick a different background you guys you can overlay that and yes I have a whole class on this too because it can get confusing change it up change the text again I like to use this feature where you can pick a color there you go let's say you want it to be not as you know obvious more obvious I love this feature quite a bit so there are so many things you can do okay so I can leave a link for you guys there on the bottom just because you cannot open yet I am telling all of my students get ready get prepared advertise because people will want white teeth after this seriously people will be so excited to just get out and they will want to support you because it's your new small business if you need help let me know if you are thinking like oh I would like to start my own teeth whitening course I have a course on that where I can teach you guys how to do it we are obviously doing it all online now there is an in-person component when we can get there and then you guys will be all set but I can leave the link for you guys on the bottom too thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you very soon