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Tricky Truths
Written by: Craig JenningsArticle Overview: If you own a small business or are planning to, there are a few tricky truths you may be looking at.
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Tricky Truths
If you own a small business or are planning to, there are a few tricky truths you may be looking at.
The enthusiasm for small business startups is high and getting higher – but the success rate is low – 4 out of 5 are gone in 4 years.
So why do so many small businesses fail?
The SBA offers three reasons:
Inadequate capital
Inadequate experience
Inadequate planning
For the next year, I'd be writing a small-business newsletter designed to meet conditions #2 and #3. (Sorry I can't help with the capital!) I'd be looking at all the issues around building a small business that bedevil the entrepreneurs Why can't you get good help? Why is everything urgent? Why are you working twice as hard and making half as much?
And there are the other issues's should you incorporate, write a business plan, hire your dumb brother-in-law because he'll work for next to nothing, and so forth.
Here's an abbreviated outline's the real deal runs 5 pages.
Envisioning the business – plan no small plans around mission and vision.
Creating the business – goals, corporations and incorporation, finance.
Marketing- strategy and tactics.
Writing your business plan – not easy, not hard either
Building your human resources – choosing, training and managing
Using experts – accountants, attorneys, consultants, coaches
Market research – should you?
Protecting intellectual property – copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets
Setting up your office - computers, phones, other equipment, people-needs
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- Picked up a few books on my weekly trip to the library, thought I'd share their tables of contents.
The 7 Greatest Truths about Successful Women: How You Can Achieve Financial Independence, Professional Freedom, and Personal Joy, by Marion Luna Brem.
From the inside cover: In 1984, battling both cervical and breast cancer, and facing $500,000 in medical bills and a disintegrating marriage, Marion Luna Brem was desperate to find a way to support herself and her two young sons. With more than a few strikes against her, she started knocking on doors, looking for a job. Seventeen doors later, the blunt speaking manager of a car dealership in central TExas declared, "I've been thinking of hiring a broad." And with that invitation, Marion took her own first step on the road to financial independence, yada yada yada
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