How To Start Your Own Business
Starting a business isn’t easy. It requires blood and sweat. It involves risks. You need to get funding. Then there are legal requirements.
But you know that all, right?
Even then you have landed here.
Why?
Because you have the drive, don’t you?
What you are looking for is a direction. And that is exactly what we will discuss today. This article isn’t about standard procedures such as budgeting or legal requirements.
Today, we will discuss the fundamental tips on starting a business. Following are some simple and actionable tips on how to start a business that anyone can follow easily.
Know Thyself
Since the inception of startup trends, almost everyone is looking to start a business. Sometimes this is just a temporary feeling.
Know adrenaline?
For example, when you watch a sports movie, don’t you feel like training the very next day? However, the feeling is gone when you wake up. Believe me, you can do nothing worse than starting a business when you actually don’t want to do it.
Business is a very slow process and shows bitter consequences before bearing any fruit. So we want you to lie down, take a deep breath, and ask yourself some questions.
What skills do you have? Do you have the attitude for leading? Is it a service or product that you want to sell? How much money can you capitalize?
When you have answers to these questions, you will have a crystal clear picture in your mind.
Product/Services Hunt
The second step is to hunt for the right products or services. Now most of the people start looking for the best products or services in the first gear. Remember our earlier mentioned point? You have to know what skills do you have and what niches are you most passionate about.
Then start looking for a gap in the market. What do people need right now? What is that the market is failing to provide? Is that a product or a service?
But even the perfect hunt won’t help if you haven’t evaluated your target audience
Evaluate your Target Audience
Once you have decided upon the perfect product or service, you will have to conduct a market analysis. This will determine if the product you decided upon is effective in the real world or not.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Is there any similar product available in the market?
- Are people paying for it?
- Is there really a place for innovation there?
- Why do you think people will buy your product?
- Will you need an investment?
Extensive Research
Knowledge is the greatest weapon of all. And how do you gain it? By research. In business, no level of research is ever enough. Whether it is the research for the perfect product or the research of your ideas.
But arguably the most important research of all is the research of your competition. While the surveys provide you the intentions of consumers, the competitive research provides you the real world actions.
Find out what’s worked for your competitors and what hasn’t. Work out the tactics they have missed and implement in your own business. Then keep monitoring the progress and adapt as you go.
Tips to remain motivated when things get stressful and tough
Working as a leader is never easy. You will have to deal with numerous tough and stressful situations in day to day life. This can make you feel disappointed. Along with that, you will also notice that you are losing your motivation. However, you shouldn’t allow it to happen. That’s because losing motivation will lead you to even more stressful situations in the future. Here are some tips that you can follow to remain motivated when things get stressful and tough.
Figure out the nature of stress that you are dealing with
There are four different flavors of stress. You should have a clear understanding of those flavors and figure out what flavor of stress that you are currently dealing with.
- Time stress – This happens when you don’t have enough time to do your work.
- Anticipatory stress – You will get stressed by worrying about something that happens in the future. For example, can get stressed due to an upcoming presentation.
- Situations stress – If you don’t have control over the situation, you have to face situational stress.
- Encounter stress – This happens when the people that you interact with make you feel uneasy.
With this understanding, you need to understand what type of stress you are facing as of now. Then you will be able to go ahead and overcome stress effectively.
Get the help of a partner
Instead of trying to deal with stress on your own, you can seek the assistance of a partner and overcome it. That’s because a partner will be able to recharge your motivation levels effectively. When you lose motivation to do something, you should get in touch with another person that can motivate you. Then he/she will be able to deliver all the support you want to increase your motivation level.
Keep track of the progress
You will have to go through a long journey before you can achieve something. This is why you will need to track progress. Otherwise, you will just focus on the final outcome, and you will assume that there is no progress at all. This can be stressful. This is one of the biggest reasons why people lose motivation. To ensure you don’t get demotivated by this, you will need to keep track of your progress at all times.
Learn to say “No”
When you have a lot of things to do on your plate, you should learn to reject accepting any new tasks. This will also help you to refrain from getting demotivated. Accepting new work can make your life more stressful. Hence, your motivation level will be impacted negatively. There is no need to feel guilty to say no. You are aware of your capabilities and you simply reject what you can’t do.
These are four effective tips that anyone can follow to remain motivated. When you notice that things around you get stressful and tough, you just need to focus on these and get the support you want.
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If no one hates you, no one is paying attention. If attention is what you want for vanity, confidence, or, hell — to make a decent living — then know that it’s not instantaneous. Every single person that you’re currently paying attention to, at some point in their lives.
You need to be true to yourself
Just like every other human on the planet, I have epically awesome days and days when life just turne against me. And while I can’t stand most self-help (see: tired quotes over stock photography on Instagram), sometimes I need a little pick-me-up. And most of the time, in order to get out of a slump (because my brain leans more into math/science than anything else), I need to drop a logic bomb on my ass.
Yes, this is a long article. But here’s the thing — if you’re reading this in your inbox and are already like, “fuck this!” delete it. No hard feelings. If you’re reading this in a browser on a website, and you see how tiny the scroll-bar is because of how far you still have to scroll to get to the bottom, close this tab and go back to 140-character tidbits of advice. Still with me? Phew. Just had to weed out all the folks from points: #1, #4 and #8. Welcome friends, onward we go.
Never give up and stay strong
If no one hates you, no one is paying attention. If attention is what you want for vanity, confidence, or, hell — to make a decent living — then know that it’s not instantaneous. Every single person that you’re currently paying attention to, at some point in their lives, was in your exact position. They kept at it and worked enough so that others started listening. Also know that if no one is watching, you can experience true freedom. Dance in your underwear. Write entirely for yourself. Like there’s a going-out-of-business sale. Find yourself — not in some coming-of-age hippie way involving pasta and ashrams— but in a way that helps you draw your own line in the sand for what matters and what doesn’t. Do what you want to do, just because you want to do that thing. This will build confidence that will come in handy later.
Once I gave the headphones a thorough once-over exam, I tried them on. As I mentioned, they have a classic over-the-ear style and just looking at them, the padding on the ear pieces seem adequate and the peak of the headband seemed to be a bit lacking, but you don’t really know comfort unless you try on the product. So, I slipped the headphones on and found them to be exquisitely comfortable. Once I gave the headphones a thorough once-over exam, I tried them on. As I mentioned, they have a classic over-the-ear style and just looking at them, the padding on the ear pieces seem adequate and the peak of the headband seemed to be a bit lacking, but you don’t really know comfort unless you try on the product. So, I slipped the headphones on and found them to be exquisitely comfortable.
If no one hates you, no one is paying attention. If attention is what you want for vanity, confidence, or, hell — to make a decent living — then know that it’s not instantaneous. Every single person that you’re currently paying attention to, at some point in their lives, was in your exact position. They kept at it and worked enough so that others started listening. Also know that if no one is watching, you can experience true freedom. Dance in your underwear. Write entirely for yourself. Like there’s a going-out-of-business sale. Find yourself — not in some coming-of-age hippie way involving pasta and ashrams— but in a way that helps you draw your own line in the sand for what matters and what doesn’t. Do what you want to do, just because you want to do that thing. This will build confidence that will come in handy later.