You have a passion of business and you want to own your own someday. You want to be in control of your own destiny and future. To start a business, you need an idea. You need a business plan. You need funding and you need an infrastructure to ensure your business has a solid foundation. It can be overwhelming. But with the right combination of passion and partnership can bring your idea to life.
The SBA outlines the following steps to consider when considering business ownership. Note that passion is not one of the factors they list as a requirement.
Wait a moment, those 10 steps don’t look so bad right? You could get those done in a couple of weeks, right? No way! Starting a business can takes months if not a few years. To do to it correctly and ensure that your business launch propels you into a long-term orbit and a trajectory of success instead of just crashing and burning.
Consider just the Market Research. To really understand your market place, qualitative and quantitative surveys and data gathering are needed to hon in on your demographic targets and understand their needs and pain points. Without this insight you can’t develop a USP (unique selling proposition) that will set you apart from your competition.
Don’t forget that you need to build a brand as well which includes a logo that identifies you to your audience. This mark and typeface need to communicate the essence of your brand and that takes time to refine and define. It can be a costly endeavor if you get it wrong.
There are other tasks such as buying the right insurance, choosing your vendors, hiring staff, creating training materials, setting up standard operating procedures for everything from opening to restocking, from closing to handling a customer complaints. You have to do all of this yourself before you ever sell one single product r service. Before you ever make one dollar of profit. That’s enough to suck the passion right out of a person.
Now you are beginning to see why 20% of all small businesses fail in their first year according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, and by year five another 50% have met the same end.
Surely, it isn’t from a lack of passion that these small businesses are failing, its because of these factors that small enterprises are meeting their demise. Passionate business novices start with good intentions but fall victim to these traps;
Now we get a bigger picture of how unbridled passion can blind someone into making bad business decisions. When choosing a business structure, consider one that has built in assets and ready-made solutions that you don’t have to create from scratch. Consider a franchise option. One you can put your own stamp on but lean on years of experience and knowledge. Also consider a professional service franchise where there is little competition and low start up costs.
When choosing a business option consider some of these factors.
If your find a business that can do all that, you have found a business that will likely allow you to thrive and really build an asset that will build value over time. It’s not a pipedream it’s a business that offers real solutions for some of the today’s most pressing dilemmas.
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