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Opening a business without
knowing your market and “doing your homework”
In other words: Starting the
business without adequate planning. As you are sure to find out in the next
chapters, to generate money from the internet, you need to plan every step,
every action, and every little decision. Marketing is a difficult task and
should be approached carefully.
Your success is not guaranteed because you have
found a market opportunity that takes advantage of your skills and experience.
Many home business owners are guilty of taking the process of business planning
for granted. A well-written business plan provides the strategy map of your
business.
Following a good, distinctive strategy will ensure that the business
follows a consistent direction toward your goals. One of the ways to plan your
business is to study and plan based on others’ experiences.
Opening a business with a
product or a service that has no market or no demand
Although you need to enjoy what
you do, and success comes more easily if you do what you love, you need to
examine the market potential, competition, resources required to enter the
market, and uniqueness of the idea.
It will be useless to invest time, effort,
and money in a product or a service that has no chance at all.
You need to
consider the potential demand of your market. Turning your hobby or interest
into a small business, for example, without first finding out if there is
sufficient demand for the product or service is a sure way to fail.
As you are to discover in later
chapters, determining the potential demand and size of the market for your
product is the first factor in choosing a business.
If you don’t ask for help and do not learn from others
your business has a lower chance of survival
Most people do not usually ask for advice in choosing a business, either
because they are too proud, afraid someone else will steal their idea, or
simply don't know help is available.
Extensive research proves that people that
don’t ask for help and that are afraid to learn from others miss out on a great
deal of business opportunities
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