Saturday, August 16, 2008

What Is In Your Opinion The Most Important Ingredient For Your Business?

Do you know what things you have to be sure of when starting your home business?
Or you are the kind of person who just start something new because everyone is telling that's easy to do?

Before starting your business you have to have a clear mindset about what are you going to do with your business? In my opinion you have to have a reason why you like to start your own business. If you don't have a strong reason you'll most likely fail in your business.

For example:
- What are you aiming for?
- What do you want to do with your business?
- What service you like to offer
- What product you like to sell
- What is your passion about?
- What are your interests...if any?
- What is your plan for your business?
- What is your strategy for your new business?
- Who are your possible prospects?
- What is the need of your prospects or customers?
- What do they need to resolve their problems (overweight, living healthier, live a better lifestyle, financial problems, just to mention a few)

A business is some kind of mutual trust...A customer without trusting you are no customer. But there is also another important aspect you have to be sure of. And this is trusting in you. If you don't trust in yourself how can you overcome sudden obstacles in your business? How can you challenge a slowdown in the economy? Or how can you make the correct decisions for your business? Sometimes you have to trust your gut about what you feel is the right thing to do.

Imagine without trust you panic during difficult situations. If you have no trust in yourself you may fail with your first obstacle in your business or you cannot survive a slow economy. There are a few reasons why so many newcomers fail with their online business.

Reason #1
- Don't know anything about their business (just want to sell something)

Reason #2
- No business plan
- No strategy for their business
- Therefore not able to make decisions

Reason #3
- No perseverance
- No trust in themselves that they can do it
- They are easy victims for promising offers and easy money

Reason #4
- No persistence (Jump from one business to the other)
- No dedication to their business
- Strong believers of 'a business runs by itself'

That's why you have to be extra sure that you know exactly what you are doing with your home business. If you are going to open up a business, you don't have to be an expert. But you have to be sure what you are going to do. Everything is learn able. You can learn with the right mindset and focus almost everything.

Before starting your business you should read books on the subject. You have to collect as much as possible information about your business. In that way many people get a feeling whether they like what they have in mind or don’t. But if you don't inform yourself you'll never know if that business suits you or not.
It is easy to start a business but it is difficult to stay in business.

The same applies in your private life. You are obsessed with a fancy car but you don't know how to drive it. You'll try everything-to get your license or you learn how to drive because you are so obsessed about that car that you do everything possible to drive it...Right? In case you don't do it you feel your whole life miserable.

This is the type of mindset you net to have success in your private life and or in your professional life. You cannot start a business you fairly know nothing about it without a strong positive mindset. Only understanding and knowing your business you will become the expert.

It is human to make mistakes. A friend of mine told me once, "I only became successful through my mistakes and failures", and because I didn't annoy them instead I accepted my mistakes and made it better the next time. Nobody is perfect because we are human; we have feelings, thoughts, weaknesses, distractions and so on. But as long as you have enough trust in yourself you can manage almost any situation you'll get involved with.

A phrase I read once in the "Daily Guru" is what you should read over and over again:

Quote: Your Success Depends on your enjoyment!

"You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing. What you do is more important than how much money you make. How you feel about what you do is more important than what you do.

The more you love what you're doing, the more successful it will be for you. Don't set compensation as your goal. Find the work you like and the compensation will follow.

You don't pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."

Anton



Author's Name: Anton Winkler S.

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