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November 2, 2009As a small entrepreneur, you learn about your new business while keeping the safe and steady income of your main job. You start small and build your business gradually. This limits your risk in case your new business fails. In exchange for taking less risk, you must work harder. You must be dedicated, willing to come home after a full workday and keep going on your side business. It takes discipline, tenacity, faith, and a very understanding family to manage your business while keeping your day job. It’s not easy to work all day at the office and then go home at night to work on your own project. The competition for your time can become intense. But if you create a plan and follow it in an orderly fashion, you have a very good chance of eventually succeeding.
Mastering the essential skills
To succeed in any business, you must know and do certain things very well. For starters, you must master the fundamentals of direct marketing. Direct marketing is by far the most efficient way to sell products and services profitably. It is essential for small entrepreneurs because it allows them to break into their market without losing a fortune on general advertising.
You must also learn about the kinds of products the marketplace desires and which price points are ideal. You must know how those first sales are made — the specific marketing techniques to employ to generate a sale without spending too much money acquiring the customer. You must understand the “back end” of the business, too (how to upgrade a new customer into buying higher-margin products).
Learning about the market you intend to enter can also be done while you still have your day job. It is relatively easy to take advantage of the Internet or use flea markets to test new product ideas cheaply. And you can learn the backend of the business by becoming a customer of a company selling a product similar to the one you want to sell. Create your backend strategy by seeing the kind of offers you get from them after you make your first purchase.
Avoiding the most common start-up mistakes
There are several pitfalls in starting any new business. But as a small entrepreneur you can easily avoid them. The most common is dictating to, rather than listening to, the market. New entrepreneurs often waste precious time and effort hoping to bring something brand-new and exciting to the marketplace. But if the product doesn’t exist, there is usually a good reason for it. It’s better to start with a better or cheaper version of a product that is already known and in demand.
The next-biggest mistake new entrepreneurs make is spending too much time and money on non-essentials like business cards, photocopy machines and fax machines. Keep in mind that the fundamental activity of a business is the commercial transaction. Your best chance of success comes when you devote 80 percent of your initial resources to making the first sale.
Master the necessary skills, avoid the pitfalls, and your business will grow. At some point in the future, you may realise that you are making more money from your second income than you are from your first. That’s when you may choose to drop your “day job.”
Justice Mandhla is the author of Business Prep Guide and he spends a great deal of his fulltime writing days researching and writing about business preparatory strategies.
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Never give up Boosting your Sales.
October 24, 2009
If you’ve been in business very long, chances are good you’ve started out spending hours closing sales, processing transactions, fulfilling orders, and finding new leads in an effort to boost your sales. You wasted time on the phone talking to prospects who asked dozens of questions and then never bought anything. You wasted money into your website without seeing the results you expected. You did your best to provide amazing customer service, but you still had to fight tooth and nail for referrals and repeat business. You worked for hours on end without seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. And you long ago, gave up the idea of doing what you love. But you know, nobody starts a business expecting to give up their personal life and spend hours at the office. It’s just what happens when there are bills to pay, employees to manage, customers to keep happy and prospects to convert. But what you need to realize is, despite all the things that keep you running day-in and day-out there is a reward at the end. Continue building your business despite all the hardships.
Success is all about perseverance and determination, not giving up, doing your best, keeping at it, focus -when you would rather quit and rid yourself of the business. But when we quit, we can forget about achieving the goal we are working towards. It’s like running a long-distance race – a marathon. At the start, you feel strong and full of enthusiasm, but as the miles take their toll on your energy reserves, you think to yourself, ‘Why am I doing this? This is tough!’ If you decide to quit you are immediately out of the race. You will never be able to boost those sales let alone running a business – It’s over for you. There is no committee that sits down at the end and decides whether or not you should still get a medal. No one says, she/he tried so hard in the beginning, “can’t we just give it to him/her?” No. There is no vote.
Hang in there! The worthy projects you are involved in are worth fighting for. Success takes strength of mind, courage, moral fiber and drive. It does not come without these traits. But it is worth it in the end. A happy marriage, a successful business, a mature son or daughter, a fulfilling career in your chosen field. These things are the rewards of perseverance and are worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears. Stay the course and boost those sales. You can do it!
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