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
Tricky Truths - To learn more about this author, visit Craig Jennings's Website.
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Craig Jennings
(Visit Craig's Website)
What lights me up these days is Public
Speaking. I spoke to about 200 small
businessmen in Las Vegas last month about
a different approach to business planning.
They loved it, I loved it, it should be
on my website by now at www.craigjen
nings.com and I hope you'll visit.
New book is in the making as we speak.
First draft due by end June.
If you'd like some more objective details
about this coach and human being, I
graduated from Harvard, did graduate work
at Columbia, and I've spent most of my
life in the world of business. I have
worked for some big companies like CBS and
Merrill Lynch. I've worked for a dot.com,
and a hot Madison Avenue advertising
agency. I've taught computers, and
designed and presented a curriculum on day
trading. I have created 7 businesses of my
own, including an advertising agency, a
commercial deep sea diving company, a
computer training company, and a
consulting company
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