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Where do your brilliant business ideas come from?

Guest post by: Lisa Murray

Article Overview: As a small business owner, once you ‘shut up shop’ for the day do you also shut off thinking about your business? I find my best ideas come when I’m not doing anything connected with work… I went to Riverfire and the Brisbane Writers Festival on the weekend – a few hours chilling out and five new and amazing business ideas landed in my ideas notebook!

Where do your brilliant business ideas come from?

So, how exactly does that happen? Most essentially, I am a keen observer, always looking for creative opportunities in unexpected places. When I see a possible opportunity, I start asking questions… lots of them… until I find an idea that gives me tingles. Here’s a few questions you can ask when you are out and about…

• Is anyone here in my target audience? If so, what would it take for my business to get access to them at an event like this?
• What would make this audience want to know more about my business?
• Are there any unmet needs here that my business could fulfil?
• Are there any existing but underutilized resources here that I could leverage?
• What business ideas are beyond what I can imagine is possible? What would it take to make these ideas possible?

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