Dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur is not an easy journey or rather in other words it's not a walk in the park even though you have never done it before.
This simply means that, there is no way you can wake up one day and become a successful entrepreneur.
You have to do the work because all successful stories are on the doing not the talking.
The first step towards making this viable is through coming up an idea that you want to turn into business so as to bring it to the market.
But the true fact is, an idea again no matter how beautiful it may look like is not enough to make you get started. There are other factors that govern any dreaming entrepreneur.
As we can witness and learn from bigger icons like Strive Masiyiwa, Aliko Dangote, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and so many others, there respective businesses were not built overnight instead it took them many years of sweat and hard work.
If you have once dreamt of becoming the controller of your own life, if you have once thought of quitting the job that you are not happy with it's salary. If you want to attain a life of financial freedom. Pause and relax a bit, because you are not a lone.
This script is going to let you go on that journey towards achieving a life of your own terms. After reading it to the end I want you to go and start it right away.
Keep reading this guide because it takes you at a slow pace towards starting your dream-business
1. Take Much Focus On Your Persona
Don't wait any longer for help from anyone, that assistance will no longer come instead, take a lot of concern inside your self because most of the things that will grant your business a start must come from you.
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Take the causes of your situation right now to no one, except you yourself. Don't take these blames to the government or to your family, it's not wise to do that instead make changes within you so as to make your entrepreneurial journey a success.
2. Decide the business to start based on passion
What gives you power or drive even when you're tired?
You have to look inside yourself and go for something that you are passionate of doing.
How to know when a particular business is for you?
There are other major factors to make you be clear on this, and these are:
• Go for what you truly understand:
How many people have you ever helped in your life? Can you be able to gather what you love doing into different forms so that you can offer them at a fee?
Maybe it can turn out to be a starting point.
• Leverage From what others have developed
Which businesses that are not in your line of interest, you have fallen in love with? You can as well follow up on the businesses of your own colleagues that are successful no matter the industry they are in.
Another way that you can gain an entry to this industry is through fast-following. Again you can partner with them when you don't have an idea of your own.
• Provide an irresistible solution to a thirst market
This is a situation whereby you identify a certain problem in a particular niche that you have got no interest in. Because solutions to this problem is not desirable, you can as well enter Into that market no matter how saturated in May look like.
Take your due diligence before undertaking this because it is the riskiest thing of the highest order. Equip yourself with enough knowledge and skills before commencing your journey of entering the market.
There are various entrepreneurial digital-online courses you can undertaker that are flexible no matter where in the world you are. Just with your smart phone you can still enrol into any of them.
3. Smart business strategies enhances your chances of succeeding
When you don't prepare you are strategizing for failures. When you don't know where you are heading how will you get there?
This is the truth of the situation no matter how hard it is to accept. But so many people who aspire to become up-coming entrepreneurs don't plan ahead.
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Again they always complain instead whenever their business fails in the first year. When you are on your way preparing your plan, make sure it comprises of the following for it to be alive:
Before you start ask yourself the following questions, no matter how hard they are.
• What types of products am I bringing to the market?
• Who are my target customers?
• Which problems am I solving that belongs to my target market?
• Which steps am I going to follow in order to achieve this?
4. Know exactly the target market you are about to serve
You can't solve a problem that only belongs to you again you can't build products and services as a dreaming entrepreneur for yourself and your family.
When starting your business, you need to be honest with such questions as, are people going to buy the product and services am about to offer?
Is the market ready for the solutions am about to deliver?
This decision will save you a lot things including your time, energy and money spent when exploring unreliable market.
You are required to figure out the number of clients you are going to serve with your solution. You can't deliver your services to all of them.
Is your solution relevant to their day to day challenges?
Why do they have to buy from you other than from your neighbour next to your door?
Due to the capabilities of what is available for you now, you are free to explore a wide range of research tools available for you.
But an effective way to enable this is clear feedback from your ground customers, you can respond to their complains and feedback inform of solutions.
5. Be in knowledge of your personal money and find what's for the business
No investor will invest into your business when it's first an idea. The fact is, you have to begin it. Therefore taking your business up from the ground needs your personal finances when you ever dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur.
There is a near relationship between your business and your personal money. Keep in the flow of your finances so that you can set aside what is for the business.
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So as to keep yourself in track record of your money, there are tools to hand help when handling this. There are systems put into place to make you understand the flow of your money as well as your expenditure.
In which category of business type does what you are about to start falls?
Do you want to invest in a start-up? This one here requirements smaller amount of funding. You can use your personal money to fund it.
Is your business a small medium sized type? Most of the small sized business requires medium amount of capital as well as resources.
So, you can fund it through, capital from your friends, relatives as well as family members.
When you want to finance a bigger co-operation, it needs huge amount of money as well as man power. You can pitch investors so that they can fund you with money for the company.
6. Surround yourself with wider and diversified network
Now that you have finished opening your business, you can now broaden your reach as far as bringing others into your opportunity that you have discovered. You can convince investors, partners, peers and many others.
No one else has much confidence in what you do more than you do. It's your role as the founder to find for ways of persuading others to come your way.
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You can master exploring local markets without forgetting international demands. To ensure you have optimised the use of this, look at the following:
• Wherever you find yourself in, define who you are and also what you do.
• Don't fear to promote what you do and what other colleagues are capable of doing. This virtue will serve as a unique kind of act. It will make your outstanding from the crowd.
7. Provide a solution to problems
Every products or service we use on our daily basis are as a result of solutions to problems. It was once not there but some one somewhere came up with an idea of providing it with a solution inform of services.
These individuals or companies never complained towards the respective challenges they have incurred instead they aproached it with a positive mind of innovation.
The more the problems you solve always the more successful you become. When you build this type of mind-set, you will always be intrigued by ways of advancing and improving your products and services to serve a wider market in your industry.
8. Spread the gospel: market your business and yourself
Market your self shamelessly without fear and much confidence. This way you will be selling your products as well as your services.
Don't forget to make use of such tools as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, tiktok and Instagram. Though digital marketing has a very wider reach, don't forget to make use of other old fashioned ways such as word of mouth, use of websites, email marketing, articles and speeches.
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They are old but when well optimized they are effective.
When you take action by implementing these steps I have given there is no doubt you will count yourself at the top. The vary drawback that you are experiencing, is not you alone.
There are others who have gone through the same challenge. Don't feel ashamed of requesting help from other entrepreneurs.
Don't be surprised by the scale of support you will get from them whenever you dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Some of them can be your first clients to buy from you.
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