| Perhaps you're tired of the 9 to 5 grind or you're just | | | | information - pay it! |
| looking for a change in you life, starting your own small | | | | 5. Marketing is everything. Based on my experience |
| business can be rewarding and profitable. But, there is | | | | please don't spend a lot of time formulating your |
| some planning to do and some questions to asked | | | | product or service. Spend most of your time selling it |
| before you start. | | | | first, then once you've sold it, you will have more |
| The following 10 steps to starting a small business | | | | resources to develop your product. Give the customer |
| have been compiled based on my experience after | | | | what they want, not what you think they want. |
| having started 3 successful businesses that are | | | | 6. Hi-energy is the key. Have you ever heard the |
| currently doing very well. | | | | expression, "how you do anything is how you do |
| 1. Make sure you do something you love. Starting a | | | | everything?" If you have a poor level of energy for |
| business for the sole purpose of making money or | | | | most things that you do then your business will fail. You |
| avoiding the work force is a bad plan. Unless you're | | | | must raise your energy level to 100% and do things |
| truly in love with the products or services you are | | | | with all the positive energy you can muster. |
| creating you will fail. Few people know this. Think of it | | | | 7. Focus on what's going right - not on what needs |
| this way; if obstacles get in your way, which they | | | | fixing. If you focus on fixing problems you'll get more |
| always do, only your passion, purpose and love of | | | | problems. If you focus on the things that are working |
| what you do will overcome any and all obstacles. | | | | you'll get more of the same. The law of attraction is an |
| 2. Don't quit your job just yet. Most small business | | | | irrefutable law of the universe; use it to your |
| owners make the mistake of quitting their jobs before | | | | advantage. |
| the money starts to roll and that's why 85% of small | | | | 8. Help other get what they want first. If you are in |
| businesses fail in their first year of business - because | | | | business for personal gain only you will fail quickly. If, on |
| they run out of money. Most small businesses can be | | | | the other hand, your business helps a great many |
| started in your spare time then, when the money | | | | people get what they want then you will succeed a |
| starts to come, you can quit your job - not before. | | | | hundred times more than they will. |
| 3. Plan the work and work the plan. Sounds simple and | | | | 9. Pay yourself first. You must always pay yourself |
| familiar yet a well formulated plan with a clear | | | | first before anything else. Set aside money for you |
| outcome are the keys to success. Most people start a | | | | first and you will quickly realize that money will always |
| business without first putting to paper a clear plan of | | | | be there. If you forget to do so or wait 'till there's |
| execution. Download a business plan template from | | | | money, there will never be any money. |
| the internet and study it. Then when you're ready with | | | | 10. Dream big. Nothing big ever got created with a |
| a general plan, complete the full business plan. | | | | small idea. Have a clear picture in your head of the |
| 4. Trial and error may be popular but it's a waste of | | | | outcome you want to produce and you will get there. |
| time. Sure mistakes are great because you learn what | | | | Detach from what you belief are the failures and you |
| not to do. But, what if you could learn from the | | | | will get there even faster. |
| mistakes of others before making them yourself? | | | | I hope you've enjoyed these 10 steps to starting a |
| Wouldn't that make more sense? The quickest way to | | | | small business. Naturally there are many others but |
| get where you're going is to going to someone who's | | | | these are in my opinion the most important and should |
| already got what you want and ask them exactly | | | | be carefully considered before you start anything. |
| how they got it. If they want to charge you for the | | | | |