10 Step-Business Startup Guide: How I Actually Get Started From Scratch!
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Welcome to my story, my sharing and my blog.
I am Dave J, an author, keynote speaker, E-preneur and a NLP-certified coach.
Before we begin, I would like to answer the question that pops into the mind of readers each time they open my blog:
“What motivated me to share my experience and expertise?"
When I planned to start my own business many years back, I talked to dozens of successful entrepreneurs, I attended seminars, I purchased training materials, signed up for courses and participated in countless business events. But I still do not get satisfactory answers for a systematic approach to starting up and running a profitable business. One thing for sure, it has cost me a lot of money and time in the process. The saddest part is most of the materials, seminars and courses are expensive and too theoretical in nature. Most of them are not practical, not easily applicable and not cost effective for a fresh entrepreneur like me.
Secondly, as I have mentioned earlier I did manage to seek guidance from successful entrepreneurs on the nuts and bolts of starting up and running a profitable business. However, many of them are too busy to share with me their expertise. Furthermore, even if they do, they are not so keen to part with their “secrets" to me. Some are willing to do so, but the advice does come with a high price tag!
I always believe in the law of giving, in which the more I give the more I shall be blessed in many other ways. Hence, I have decided to share with you (anyone out there) a one-stop guide for everyone who is planning or decided to startup a business of their own choice (even if they do not have any capital) before they get disappointed or frustrated in the search for the right kind of guidance to starting up their own business profitably. I hope they will not walk the “costly" and “bumpy" path that I’ve taken many years back without any such help whatsoever.
In the next few days, I be posting my business startup journal - a 10 step-by-step guide to starting your own business (regardless whether it’s online or offline, small or medium, physical product or no-product at all). The journal is updated constantly whenever I found a new way to get thing done better, cost-effective or faster in result. Whatever I idea, formula or tip I shared with you, I assure you I have personally utilized it somehow directly or indirectly.
Dave J, is an E-preneur, NLP-Certified Business Coach and Author. Within a decade, Dave J has served as an advisor to countless small-level to high-level business leaders around the world. Despite such a short span, Dave J has becoming a highly-respected authority on the psychology of business leadership, business startup, management and marketing. His forte is coaching ordinary people to attain professional and financial breakthrough.
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Small Business Startup Help
Circuit City closed its doors after decades in the business of electronic retail. Discount clothier Steve & Barry's shuttered their stores even though they featured almost every item under $10. A long list of businesses are becoming leaner as they close shops in favor of better performing locations. This is business in a recession.
Property owners are seeking new tenants for large retail complexes. Very few retailers are in a position to expand. Banks consider it risky and most retailers feel the same way.
Consumers are holding a death grip on their personal expenditures and it's having a strong effect on how business does business.
The Other Side of the Coin
Now that finances have become tighter many are looking for ways to make extra money to pay down debt or work toward saving for something they need. No one likes to simply hold on when they might be able to move up.
Therein lies the problem. Banks aren't in a mood to lend so opening a standard retail business may be difficult to accomplish. It's been reported that even Donald Trump is having difficulty getting loans these days.
How do you go about developing a business with little investment capital and no reasonable expectation for a startup loan from your bank?
The first thing you will need to do is take inventory of your available assets. What do you currently own that could help you develop a business idea? What funds do you have available that could be used to launch a business?
Second, take your skills and see how they can be incorporated into a business idea. By combining what you can do with what you have available you can access a powerful set of tools for business development.
Third, the business you have in mind may have the best chance of success in an online environment. No rentals or lease will be needed and you won't have heating, cooling or even building insurance expenses to worry about. You may not even need any extra employees to make your business solid.
An online environment is the absolute least expensive environment to develop business. It can also be the most interruptible. If you need to take time for meetings, school plays or a day in the park you can do it. Sure, your business may require your attention later, but if you need to live life you can step away from your online storefront and do it.
Instead of hiring a sales force you will be using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to help sell your online business. You should prepare for several months of lean sales. Slow sales growth is normal for any new start up so patience will be key.
The majority of the skills you will need to develop your business can be found online. It may seem overwhelming, but the more you work with online marketing techniques the more you will begin to see how they can interconnect and compliment each other.
Discover what you have, what you can do and then take it to the web. The end result may be a recession resistant business with long-term rewards.
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