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Strengthening Your Business Startup: The Ultimate Guide

October 30, 2017 By admin

If you’re planning to start a business, you should be proud – it takes a lot of guts, a vision, the willingness (and ability) to get an enterprise going with the aim of long-term success.

Starting a business is an exciting journey, but it’s a stressful and sometimes a tricky journey as well, as confirmed by the experts from Next-Insurance.com. It requires plenty of planning and even more work. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

Having said that, however, there are no reasons why you shouldn’t be able to make it work. There are plenty of success stories around. All you need to do is avoid common mistakes and take the advice of the experts. Here’s how to strengthen your business start-up: your ultimate guide.

 

Table of Contents

  • Establish Your Mindset and Your Goals
  • Create a Sound Business Plan
  • Give the Market What It Wants
  • Focus on Cash Flow
  • Calculate Very Conservatively
  • Get insurance
  • Find the Right Partners
  • Take Advantage of Networking Opportunities
  • Marketing is a Must
    • Wait! Before You Go, Read:

Establish Your Mindset and Your Goals

As a small business entrepreneur, you make up only a small portion of the populace. But while the number of entrepreneurs nowadays is growing, not all of them have the right mindset.

It is important to mentally prepare for your endeavor– think about why you are doing it and what your reasons are for going into business, and think about your goals. Remember that you are the founder of something, aim high.

You also have to assess yourself and try to understand what makes you different or unique from other founders or business owners. Drawing from your inner strength is one of the keys to making full use of your skills, talents, and assets. It helps you form better relationships, as well.

Establishing your goals from the onset is also a good way to remain focused. Having a clear focus allows you to make sure that you don’t end up being distracted by non-essential tasks or issues that don’t contribute to the growth of your business.

 

Create a Sound Business Plan

Even if you are convinced that you have the best product or service around and your product or service will ‘sell like hotcakes’, you still need to create a sound business plan. Your business plan should reflect your goals and objectives, but it should also make logical and financial sense. In other words, it should be realistic.

Additionally, your business plan should include your options when it comes to funding – how much you need over the next year and how you will get it. Keep in mind that many business startups fail in the first year simply because they lack funding and do not retain a sufficient cash flow for their business, so you need to determine your source of funding from the beginning.

 

Give the Market What It Wants

Too often, entrepreneurs focus on what they want to sell. You may be great at making strawberry jam or cupcakes, but that’s not necessarily what the market wants, especially if there is so much competition (and perhaps better products) out there.

Focus on what the market wants. Produce what your customer wants. Do your research and ensure you have a niche.

 

Focus on Cash Flow

 Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business.

Although you as an entrepreneur should not expect a positive cashflow for the first six months or so (depending on the business, of course), it’s necessary to focus on it and make that cash flow positive as soon as possible.

 

Calculate Very Conservatively

At the launch of your business, your expenses are bound to me more than you expect, while your income is bound to be less than you estimated. Calculate very conservatively when you project your expenses and your revenue – it may not go according to plan, so be ready for a relatively dry spell at the start.

You may want to read this related article: Want to Hack Serious Business Growth? Do a Lean Start Up!

 

Get insurance

Insurance is often initially overlooked by small business owners. They see it as an unnecessary expense.

It isn’t, however; it’s a vital way to ensure that the business can survive when things don’t go according to plan. It provides a crucial safety net.

 

Find the Right Partners

By finding the right partners, we mean the right staff. Once you find the right staff, train them well. If you have staff that knows exactly what to do and how to do it, this can give your business a boost; you don’t have to waste time correcting their errors or mistakes or supervising them.

Take the time and effort to create trust within your team, and let everyone know precisely what their purpose is and how they fit into the bigger picture. This encourages loyalty as well.

 

Take Advantage of Networking Opportunities

As a startup business, you need to get noticed. You need to get the right amount of exposure. One way to get the exposure and attention you need is to harness the opportunities presented by networking. There are many networking events out there for startup entrepreneurs, and all you have to do is attend.

Through networking, you can meet other owners of small businesses, you can get referrals, you can acquire knowledge from the experience of others who have been in your shoes, and, if you are a regular attendee of this kind of event, you can become more well-known and begin spreading a reputation as a trustworthy, reliable, and amiable business entrepreneur.

 

Marketing is a Must

Marketing is not a cost – it’s an investment. You need to make sure the market knows about your company and your product or service. You need to spread the word and attract customers.

Needless to say, some new entrepreneurs may be a bit wary about spending too much of their much-needed funds for marketing purposes – but you’d be surprised at some of the low-cost ways of marketing you can take advantage of. Nowadays, you can market your business on social media, for instance.

Never underestimate the power of social media channels such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and make sure you have a strong and robust presence on each. Social media marketing is also a great way to establish a bond and connection with your customer base, especially if you regularly update your social media network and post interesting photos, videos, and the like.

 

There are many more things to mention, but perhaps this is one of the most important ones: you constantly have to revisit your business plan, review, gather data, and discover. There is a learning curve, and you can’t expect everything to fall into place from the start.

Constantly do research about your competition, and learn from them. Continue gathering information about your target demographic, and learn. The more you learn, the more likely you are to earn.

 

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Comments

  1. Shantanu Sinha says

    October 31, 2017 at 8:17 am

    Hello Erik,

    Good shout over here 🙂

    Indeed planning to begin with our own startup do needs a lot of guts and motivation to get going with.

    Exactly is it was easy every one would quit their job and would be jumping into this profession. Its our own establishment
    no one is going to work for it until and unless we do and it require a lot of work,hard work to be done.

    Its always good to do some research before we set our business to the higher grounds, we need to study whats trending in the
    market, what people want and how we can deliver them that. To study the competition is also very important, as we can learn what
    our competitors are lacking behind and what we could add up so that people do fly to us.

    Marketing is must thing every business owner should do, get out from the box, try to connect people, establish relations
    with them and after wards promote our products to them. One can not make the difference just by sitting and hoping that the
    magic wand will turn and cash will flow in.

    Thanks for the share.

    Shantanu.

  2. Praveen Verma says

    November 1, 2017 at 9:51 am

    Hello
    Erik,
    Always feels good to read your post. Agree that starting a business takes a lot of guts, a vision, and the willingness. A good planning is a key to success. All these tips are very effective and we should know before starting a business.

    The links in each points are amazing and helps more to understand these tips.

    Thanks for sharing with us. Waiting for your next blog post.

    Best wishes,
    Praveen verma

  3. John says

    November 2, 2017 at 12:00 am

    Hi Eric,

    You have shared an all important topic. I am obliged to agree with you on the first two point which i strongly believe are the main and most important factors to consider.

    Without adequately establishing a sound mindset, setting a goal and creating an achievable business plan, I am of the opinion that such business will languish and remain in the abyss of failure.

    Thanks for sharing.

  4. Rajkumar says

    November 2, 2017 at 8:04 am

    Hi Erik,
    You put some important and perennial aspect about the failure of a big chunk of business, which is due to lack of funds. Yes, business needs initial boost and it has to be supported with proper planning along with funds too. Yes, we have to constantly keep an effective check on where our business plan is going and where we actually want to move it forward, If needed, we may have to discover new things, and we have to be a researcher. We need to equally have appetite for learning new things as well.

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