I’m meeting with a successful businesswoman from my small town tomorrow and I don’t know what to say or ask her
Basically the title 🙃 I am 22, no degree (yet), working in social media marketing/strategy and design. I live in a really small town in the rural Midwest - Reddit loves telling me to move asap when I mention this and it’ll happen, but not in this economy- and so far I’ve found success with my career as far as opportunity.
I have been moving up and doing bigger and bigger projects for local businesses, but have been feeling kind of lost lately with figuring out how to turn my skills that I have into a business people would trust (right now I’m kind of just that girl who will do your social media for you).
So, I took a risk and asked my boss to connect me with a business leader in the area who has done tons of work all over the country in terms of branding, marketing, and strategy. She owns the only marketing agency in town with a full team. What really sticks out to me is that she does not have a college degree. Getting one is in my plans, but I can’t just wait until I have my degree to start building my career, I don’t operate like that 😭 She responded and wanted to set up a meeting for tomorrow but now I am SOOO NERVOUS and panicking over how to handle it. I don’t know what to wear.. I’ve never had a meeting like this with someone before .. I don’t know how to introduce myself to her or how the meeting will go or what questions to ask. I’m the type of person that needs a concrete plan laid out for everything and this is going to be very new for me. My boss basically just told her that I do the (digital) marketing for our small business and I have a really unique skillset.
Just looking for tips on what you would talk about, how you would conduct yourself, what my goal going into this should be, things I should definitely not do, etc etc 😭😭 And good luck!!!!