This is when you want to look for outside assistance.
Friday, 24. June 2011
If you have an idea to improve a product, offer a service that is needed or desired, or have a ground-breaking idea that companies, governments, or individuals are willing to exchange money for then you have the foundations for a successful business venture. Ideas are the foundations of success. We’ll start with your networking skills, they’re essential for business because it always helps to know people. The last time I checked you didn’t need a degree from an accredited university to come up with a brilliant concept, service, or product. There are services you can use for a small fee that can collect payments for you, and help run your business. You have management skills, keeping your children in line, getting them off to school, managing the house, and all the errands and chores take management skills, you’ve already got them. You don’t have to hire employees; some people will work pro bono or on a contract basis. Most web hosting companies offer templates of websites that you download and change, not much more difficult then using a word processor. Let’s debunk that myth right away, it is true that those things help you, but they are not a prerequisite for definitive success. Getting your child to take their medicine, do their homework, do their chores, or to do anything they don’t feel they need to do is selling, same concept, just a different purpose. Your company can be whatever you want it to be, and for whatever purpose. This portion has to do a little with marketing, finance, strategy, sales, etc in business but within the context of who you know. Bringing in someone to help doesn’t mean you have to give up control pro bono lawyers or change direction. You can make just enough to pay for a new outfit a month and a trip to the spa, play for Johnny’s and Susie’s college education, or become the next corporate giant. As I said in Point #1, you don’t need to necessarily have the business skills and knowledge that is taught in business schools and programs to be successful, but it helps greatly to know someone who does, we’ll talk about this a little later. These same people have skill sets that may benefit you, or know people who can help. First it time to look internally at your own hidden skills.