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Entrepreneaurship
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How to be an Entrepreneur.
If you are going to succeed in your business you will need to
think and act as an entrepreneur. A great thing about running
your own business is that it makes you think as an entrepreneur
and because your thinking develops in this way; looking for
opportunities and working out how to use them becomes second
nature.
You become single minded, you give your business everything.
Because you are going to succeed you dedicate yourself to your
business and particularly in the early days you will work
prodigiously. You will succeed and hard as those early days seem
you will look back on them with some satisfaction.
You will learn to ‘think laterally'. Things do not always
work as planned, your business model may not be working, keep
changing it until it does. Be flexible, you will then find away.
Don't be too proud to ask for advice. You will have discussed
your new venture with your friends, colleagues and others. There
are many people who you can turn to including your local Chamber
of Commerce, Local Business network and the bank manager - keep
him/her on side.
I have a friend of 30 years standing who has started two
successful businesses. The second was a larger version of the
first involving considerable amounts of start up capital. Over
many months in the start up phase we met regularly mostly at his
instigation on a Friday night in the pub. I thought he was just
being sociable, friendly and trying to relax.
This went on continuously for months and intermittently for
years. We always discussed issues relating to the start up
business. Some years later when the business was established and
successful I realised from some chance word that I had been
giving away free consultancy because my friend had been drawing
on our discussions to help him with his problems. He's still my
friend!
This is what friends are for and his business is a now market
leader in it's sector and I am so pleased that he had the for
sight to use my ‘free consultancy'. So talk to other
entrepreneurs.
As you go on in your business treat every failure as a learning
experience. Think carefully about what went wrong, understand it
fully and use the information to understand your strengths and
weaknesses. Take remedial action and don't take failures
personally.
If being a successful entrepreneur was easy every one would do
it. There are no rules, there is no right and wrong way round
most issues. There are just problems with a number of ways of
solving them and turning them into opportunities. Be flexible,
you will solve them and then you are on to the next stage,
Tip:
Never ever be too proud to discuss your problems, and if your
are a consultant you probably enthuse about your interests and
communicate them freely, beware giving of free consultancy -
‘even to friends!'
About the author:
Semi retired Business Consultant who has helped business owners
and individuals to performance improvement. Published Author
helping others to release their potential. More articles at
http://www.be-your-own-business-expert.com
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