Business from Scratch: 44 top tips for those who decide and who make up their minds!
01 Get your butt off the couch as quickly as possible.
02 Don't be afraid to meet new people and make new contacts.
03 Find other entrepreneurs and start talking to them.
04 Stop communicating with people who drag you down.
05 Don't be afraid to make mistakes.
06 Always be open to new things.
07 Do not be afraid of problems.
08 Do everything very quickly.
09 Separate the main from the secondary.
10 Do not take loans at the beginning.
11 Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
12 Reduce costs.
13 Don't look for a completely new idea, work with what is.
14 First, manage to sell a product or service, and only after that do the rest: rent an office, look for employees, "lick" the site.
15 Be different - provide the best service, the best conditions, or the best product.
16 Becoming a sales and marketing professional is the heart and engine of any business.
17 Delegate.
18 Do what you love - a product or service that you are indifferent to will not lead you to success.
19 Do not strive to do at 5 at once - do at three at first, make sure of your ability to achieve the desired result.
20 Hire people who are better than you.
21 Do not recruit employees based on "friend" or "relative"
22 Do not put legal registration at the forefront - the first transactions can be carried out through someone else's LLC for a percentage.
23 At the same time, it is not worth working in the dark - as soon as the first money goes, put legal and accounting cleanliness in the company.
24 Manicly track and analyze the effectiveness of advertising, do not waste money on what does not work.
25 Do not pull the cat by the tail - if something needs to be done, do it right away.
26 Do not think that you are able to do a million things at the same time - highlight the main thing, weed out the unnecessary.
27 The office is not a necessity.
28 Know your competitors inside and out: who are they, what are their strengths and weaknesses, where are you better than them, where do you fall short?
29 Do not start a project if the theoretical estimated profit on it is disproportionately small compared to the effort that needs to be spent.
30 Remember that you are not obliged to work only where you live - thanks to the Internet, the whole of the USA is open to you, the whole world is open.
31 Make sure that people need your product, that there is already a market for it - and do this before investing.
32 A wholesale client brings an order of magnitude more profit - and working with wholesale or retail is, as a rule, a matter of only your thinking.
33 Remember, customers, don't think the way you think. Sometimes their thoughts are like scratching your right ear with your left foot - from your point of view. Therefore, any idea needs to be tested. Only a test can show an objective picture.
34 Be critical of your ideas. Don't believe yourself, your eyes are clouded with ambition and inspiration.
35 Fast, cheap, and high quality - three characteristics that do not exist at the same time. Good people need to be paid good money.
36 If something can go wrong, it goes wrong - be prepared for it.
37 After the first success, the first failure necessarily comes - the so-called pit. Be prepared for this.
38 Get some rest. Five minutes of rest today can give you a whole week without a hospital tomorrow.
39 Don't try to punch through the wall with your forehead. You can probably
bypass it or find a door.
40 Selling goods at a higher price is more profitable than selling at a lower one. Dumping is the last and most ineffective means of promotion.
41 No matter how beautiful your product is, it is nothing without advertising. You need to be able to tell the world about yourself so that the world wants you.
42 Know your client better than yourself: who he is, how he lives, how he breathes, what kind of music he listens to, what magazines he reads, where he dreams of going on vacation, what he has complexes about and what he enjoys.
43 A product intended “for everyone” will not be sold to anyone. Narrow down your target audience. "Focus"
44 Take the choice of a partner very seriously - this person will become closer to you than your wife.
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