Business Tips no 5

Business Tips # Send the Spy

Like the old history about the twelve tribes of Israelites who want to conquer the City of Jericho. Their leader sent twelve people that represented the twelve tribes to spy on the target and at the end of the story, they success to won the battle and conquered the City of Jericho. It is also apply able to us who want to start the business. A business is not only the way to earn money but it is also a battle to conquer. You need to spy or the modern language says it as ‘survey’. Yes, you need to survey. You need to survey for the people, the market, “who want to use your product?”, “Is it easy for them to reach your product?”, you need to survey for the price, “How much your product worth for the market?”, “Are they really want to pay for the product?”, You need to survey for the quality, “What kind of quality that the market can approach with the price you offer?”, “How many people want to pay for it?”.

There are also more survey you can do like, you can survey for the traffic, the gender which like your product most, the economic level of the society, the competitors, suppliers, the security level of your business base, etc. After you finish your survey, take time to write down the results and make conclusions from the survey. If you think need to survey again, just feel confident to take more survey. From the conclusions, you can decide to start your own business, or you can delay your business until everything well done and ready or even you can stop your plan for the business and make another plan of your business. Yes, it is not instant to start a business. Need time to plan and survey, don’t give up and feel tired too soon, just remember or do them again business tips 1,2,3 and 4. You will get fired up again. And the next tips will be a more help for you. Just wait for tips#6. Wish you success.

Business tips no 4

TIPS#4 THINK TANK

When you are watching a super hero movie, you can see that the movie often exposed the actions of the super hero. But the people around the super hero are not being focused although the characters are also important; they are the people who make the super hero a real hero. The super hero’s support team like his girl friend, his wife, his parents, the costume maker, his children, his weapon maker, his informant, his servant, his uncle and aunty, his friends, and the people around him that give him ideas and inspirations.

To start your own business you also need a team of people who will give you advices, ideas, information or even some kind of special attention that other can not give it to you. This team of people is your ‘think tank’. Take time to list them and give a note beside every name in your list about what kind of ideas they will give to you.

See the example below:
1. Jimmy: Tax consultant, financial advisor, government matters, etc
2. Merry: Market advisor, sales advisor, etc.
3. Jane: Product advisor, design and creativity advisor, quality advisor, etc.
4. Jack: People skill advisor, employment advisor, etc
5. Bill: Management advisor, etc.

Take time to meet with them as often as you can. Persuade them to help you and to support you with their ideas. You don’t have to pay them money; all you need to pay is 100% attention with what they are saying.

Write down the ideas and think again, make simulation of them if needed. If you need more advice please contact them with respect and in appropriate time. Always show your gratitude to them and what ever the advices always make them in your considerations.

It is easy to have people think for you than you think by yourself. It is easy to share your burdens to your friends than you swallow them by yourself. So, the more advices you can get, the more ready your plan to start your own business. Are you ready to fill your ‘think tank’ now? The next tips will be a helpful hint for you. Just wait for tips #5 and wish you success.

Business Tips no 3

TIPS #3 TAKE THE LOWEST FRUITS FIRST

Yes, I know you have a great dream. A great dream needs a step by step activity to achieve. Now, you need to take time to think and write down a list of activities you can do. It can be what you like and also you dislike as long as you can do it. List them properly.
Activities like: shopping, gardening, washing cloth, cooking, ironing, fixing electronics, assembling the wooden furniture, eating, speaking, combining flowers, flourishing, pets feeding, animal breeding, fishing, fruits chopping, chemistries mixing, playing video games, speaking languages, fisting people, kicking people, cutting papers, sticking papers, making noodles, making cakes, making biscuits, scolding people, cleaning floors, caring for babies, caring for kids, teaching science for kids, acting, singing, writing, web browsing, drawing and so on.

After you list the activities, now, it’s time to ‘pick the lowest fruits from the tree’. It’s mean that choose one from the activities and think about it. It just like when you pick the lowest fruits from the tree, you need not to train yourself anymore because you can do it right away. You need not to have a new skill to start your own business. Choose what kind of activities you want to do and how it can make money for you. Take time to think of it and write down your plan.
Remember, after you pick all the lowest fruits, you need to pick the higher fruits. It’s mean you need to do more effort. You need to increase your skill. You need to master your skill. So, you can earn more form that. So, you need to make plan of it also. How you can master your skill or may be you need more than one skill to run your own business.
The conclusion of today’s tips is you need to start from the things that you can do because it just like when you pick fruits form a tree. You pick from the lowest branch first because you know that you need only little effort to do it. Then, after there are no more fruits that you can pick from the lowest branch, you need to do more effort to pick from higher branch; you know there are still so many high quality fruits hanging on the top branch. You need to master your skill, or even you need to master a new skill to advance your business. So, what next, you will know in the next tips. Wish you success.

Business Tips no 2

TIPS #2 PRAY

Do you know what will happen in the next few minutes? Can you guarantee it? No body knows what will happen even in the next one minute. So, we need to bring our plan to the one who create time and place. He knows every thing. He knows what will happen even in the next one month. Yes, every one must have their dream before starting their business. But not everyone can achieve their dream. Sometime they work very hard day and night like a donkey but also can’t achieve their dream. So, what’s wrong? It is nothing wrong exactly. They only don’t have the appropriate wisdom to achieve it, or may be they don’t have even chance to chase their dream.

If someone don’t have chance to chase their dream, it is uncontrollable. What do I mean is, they die too fast, too young or they have defect in their brain. But, if you are healthy and do nothing, don’t say that you don’t have chance to chase your dream. So, what you need to do is to pray and ask for the right wisdom to chase your dream. Pray is not only for one time. What do you think if someone asks something from you but you don’t give it right away and he never ask for it again, do you give him what he wants? Sometime we are being tested before our prayer being answered. Sometime we need to learn something, to do something, to have something before our prayer being answered. So, we need to seriously pray for our dream every time as often as we can.

Okay, today’s tip is Pray. All you need to do for praying are two things. First thing is you need to pray for the right wisdom to run your business and the second one you need to do is pray it seriously and as often as you can. The next thing you need to do is do the best you can for your business while you wait for the answer and then, just wait for tips# 3. Wish you success.