In the world of business, generating business opportunities is really about nurturing trade relationships. The days of a person spending 20 to thirty-five years with one company are long gone, and the best way to keep all your business options wide open is by maintaining business relationships. In many ways, this complicates the universe of making truly sound business decisions. If one has enduring business relationships, there will no doubt be the odd phone call or email with a new business proposition on the other end. Some of these proposals will in fact be fantastic whilst others might be gone before the completed idea reaches your brain. Some of them will permit you to test them out while you maintain your current position while others will demand your full attention.



If you are going to get ahead in the world, you are definitely going to have to be open to new business opportunities that come across your desk, as well as being receptive to those people who wish to bring them to you. Beware though if you have quite a lot of finance available at the outset you might see many more business proposals which will simply be thinly disguised cries for financial assistance for someone elses benefit rather than your own.

Learning to discern between outstanding business opportunities and business relationships is quite difficult though. Quite often the relationship gets in the way of sound decisions. If a relationship is good and an idea initially sounds great, the temptation is to jump right in without looking too deeply. This strategy will almost certainly backfire unless the strategy is quite foolproof. And when someone comes up with a foolproof business opportunity the rest of the world will know about it too. Until that time, we are all still out there swimming with the sharlatons and hoping for the best.

Opportunities might pop up in the weirdest of places. These are the ideas that come to mind during family picnics, holiday soirees, and of course, seminars that are more useful as a cure for insomnia than anything else. It takes not just a bright mind but a little bit of bravery to leave that proverbial door open for further discussion. There are few things more distressing than arriving home from a party wishing that you had gotten someones contact details because you felt they seemed really onto something, and you wanted in. If you could have only been a little braver you could have snatched up her business card, let your mind ponder their idea for a while, and then called with your own proposition a short while later. But you lost your nerve and another million dollar idea went home early, along with the inventor.

It is a shark infested world out there, and everyone is looking so hard for success that they arent remembering to look for the friendly face of those who can help them. Sometimes the way of developing your own winning business opportunity is to simply continue to listen to others.