Advice for entrepreneurs

15 June 2009 - 19:07

We see next a list of 20 advice dedicated to entrepreneurs:

1. He looks for the passion in which you become

In order to be successful in your emprendimientos, you must come with passion, you must love what you do.

For it you must undertake businesses that try on subjects that get passionate to you or, in any case, to try to find the taste him to which you do.

If you do not obtain it, you must look for to make other things, because if there is passion and no energy in your emprendimientos, the opportunities to achieve the success are null.

You must look for to undertake businesses in which you amuse yourself, in which you work with estusiasmo, in which you would be arranged to work free.

2. It takes advantage of your advantages

Sácale always benefit to your competitive advantages, that is to say, those aspects where you excel or you stand out before the others.

Your advantages can be in your knowledge, experiences, abilities, skills, resources, contacts, etc.

Úsalas always to undertake your businesses, and to remove advanced them. And it always tries to reinforce them and to maintain them, for example, if you dominate a subject, vuélvete expert in it, and if in particular you have important contacts, always tries to maintain them.

3. It offers something different

In order to be successful like entrepreneur, you must always offer something different, something that is unique and novel, something that the others do not offer and that diferenciarte of them allows you.

As enterprising you must be able to offer something novel and different, something that is the reason by which the consumers recognizes to you, they stop buying to the competition, and they choose to you and they prefer.

4. It begins in small, but proyéctate in great

It begins with small emprendimientos, but always proyectándote to be great. It begins with small businesses, it dominates everything well what you do, and then, little by little, begins to grow.

For example, it begins offering a single product or taking care of a single type of expert consumer, vuélvete in it, and then, as the business is growing, it offers a greater variety of products, or begins you look for new markets.

5. Proyéctate in the future

Concéntrate about which beams now, but always think about the future. Each decision that you take, you do not have to consider only the consequences that can have now, but the consequences that can have in the future.

For example, when undertaking a business, you must consider the possibility that it can become a great one of business, you must see what it can give the business now you, but also what could give you in the future.

6. It always plans

Each business that you undertake, is the size that is, must plan it and formulate a plan of business.

A business plan does not have why to be something complex, simply it must be a document where you place all the information that can stops serve you to take better decisions, your objectives, means or strategies that will allow you to reach these objectives, and your projections or budgets.

The business plan will allow you to be more efficient and to diminish the risk, it will serve to you as guide to undertake your businesses, and to be able to operate them the first months life.

7. You are not so optimistic

When doing your projections, are not too optimistic, deals with informarte, analyzing the things well, and to be most realistic possible.

You do not let yourself take by the own optimism of the entrepreneurs, and it tries to see the things with coldness, considers always all the problems or difficulties that can happen, and ten in account that more likely will appear dificultadores problems and that you did not get to anticipate.

8. You do not concentrate yourself only in the money

If your unique enterprising objective as is to obtain money, this one never is going to appear.

Before thinking about having much money, you must think about doing something that you love, in having freedom and control in your life, in serving the others, having the pride of being an entrepreneur.

Only when benefits of being an entrepreneur and you leave of obsesionarte by the money, this one just will appear in abundance.

9. It diminishes the risk and soon it acts

In each business that you undertake, you must diminish all the possible risk; for it you must informarte, to analyze, capacitarte and to plan.

But either you do not have obsesionarte in this way, you must consider that by more analysis, preparation or planning that you realize, always problems, difficulties and unforeseen expenses will arise.

Therefore, it tries to diminish all the risk that you can, but you do not try to control it everything; you do not leave the analysis it paralyzes, it assumes certain risk to you and it makes the decision to initiate your projects in one go.

10. You are not scared to commit errors

Whenever I commit errors or you fail, it is when you are really going to learn.

The errors or failures are part of the way of the success, is more, without errors or failures, never you will secure the success.

Therefore, you too much do not worry about the errors or failures that you can have. Whenever you are mistaken or you failed, it learns the lesson, I know a better entrepreneur and follows ahead.

11. It analyzes the market permanently

As enterprising you must be permanently kind to everything what happens in the market.

You always must be kind to the consumers, their behaviors, their customs, the changes in its needs, preferences or pleasures; to the economic events, the new tendencies, the new technological advances, the competition, its new strategies, their new products, etc.

You must be kind to which it happens in the market, to detect the appearance of opportunities and threats, and to always try to anticipate them and anticiparte to them.

12. It looks for the opportunities permanently

As enterprising you must be kind to everything what it can mean a business opportunity.

It must be kind to the small opportunities that appear, because they are generally from them who are generated the great businesses. And you must consider that the best opportunities appear at least are expected, reason why never must stop being kind to its appearance.

13. You do not offer something that you like, but something that they like the consumers

Like entrepreneur, your reason of being is the consumers, always you must ponerte in their place, of trying to decipher to their needs and preferences, and then, of satisfying them.

You do not fall in the error to think that if something you like, also it would have to like it to the others.

Perhaps it happens, but before undertaking your projects, you must asegurarte of it and analyze the needs and the tastes of the consumer well.

14. It meditates well your decisions

Taking good decisions is fundamental in the life of the entrepreneur.

Reason why before each decision that you take, you must tomarte your time, to meditate it either, to analyze it or.

Nevertheless, not always you will be able to do that and, sometimes, you will have to trust your instinct of entrepreneur and to make decisions quickly.

15. It compresses the time

Nowadays, due to the high competition, like entrepreneur, you must value every second, you must work every day and to all the hours.

But either you do not have convertirte in a slave of your business, must work arduously, but with time, you must have the capacity to create systems of businesses and knowledge of delegating authority.

Until you arrive the day in which your business no longer must depend on your presence, and you can dedicate to him to more time to your family and which likes, that is to say, to make undertake new businesses.

16. You do not leave of capacitarte

No matter how hard you know, you never stop continuing learning, or by your own account, or attending courses or seminaries.

It learns on businesses, on the new technologies, envelopes the new enterprise tools, but, mainly, it learns everything what you can on that one to which you dedicate yourself, until the point of which you become an expert in it.

17. It saves in everything what you can

As enterprising you must looks for to obtain the majors possible sales or gains, but, simultaneously, you must try to make the smaller expenses possible, not only in the businesses that you undertake, but also, in your daily life.

You must always look for the way to spend minor, for example, you must tomarte your time at the time of buying something, and comparing prices well; to try to rent instead of to buy, etc.; and, to the time, you must try to be frugal in your daily life, for example, you must avoid the unnecessary luxuries, at least until you have the sufficient money like being able darte those pleasures.

18. Rodéate of the indicated people

In order to undertake your businesses, you must know how to choose the indicated people, to those people who are expert in subjects that you do not dominate, and that are complemented well with you and with the other members of your equipment.

If you decide to have partners, looks for partners who complement themselves with you, which they own resources or knowledge that you do not own, and that have the same aspirations of growth that you.

19. I know perseverante

In the way of the entrepreneur, it does what one does, will always appear problems, difficulties and unforeseen expenses.

Therefore, like entrepreneur you must be preparation to draw for these obstacles, to trust your capacity and your projects, knowledge that of all ways you will achieve the success, and to follow ahead happens what happens.

20. I know patient

And, finally, the last one of the advice for entrepreneurs, is to be patient.

The way of the entrepreneur is not a easy way, to cross it is needed it perseverancia and patience. As enterprising you must have patience at the bad moments, but also in the good ones.

When the things go bad, if really you trust your capacity and your projects, ten patience and follows, knowing ahead that the success could appear at any time.

And when the things go well, they ten patience and you do not force the things, sees slowly, little by little, and taking small steps; but you find a good opportunity, just it accelerates the march and it begins there with the great steps.

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