Business Habits are important.

Business Habits are important.

For me it's 5am Wednesday.  I've got a lot of things that needs to be done today,  so I'm struggling to keep my mind focused on writing this.

Sometimes things just don't go as planned.  If this was my personal blog, and not my business blog, I wouldn't be sitting here struggling to keep my mind focused long enough to do an entry.

With the internet you can't easily hang a sign on the door saying closed until Monday.

The internet never sleeps.  It doesn't take weekends off, and it won't get sick and need surgery.

It's the best type of business partner one can find.

I don't have a device that will let me work on the go.  Even if I did have one I still would choose to tape a closed sign on the door.  You can't hold a child's hand, or look them in the eyes to see they are filled with fear of the future, if you don't put the devices down once in a while.

  

    

My Son Eli Part 4 will be coming next week.

Art by Eli

The link above will take you to our store where you see his artwork.

    

Your steps to starting a Business.(Part 2-2)

We already talked about how a business, either sales products or services, and where to get an idea for a business. We talked about fears first time buisness owners have.

So I will assume, your ready for the next step. A Business Plan.

This is where you start putting your idea for a business to paper. Your giving birth to your business idea. LUCKY, for you it's way less painful then giving actual birth to a child.
Lucky for me, I found http://www.bplans.com/

My Business Plans have always been simple, and I've never used my Business Plans to seek out investors other then my father. So I've spent serval hours searching and visiting a lot of different web sites. I've booked marked and spent even more time looking http://www.bplans.com/ over for my own personal gain.

http://www.bplans.com/ is a wealth of knowledge for someone that is on the path to starting their own Business.


I give them a 3 links mention in my blog, and a 10 Toes Vote.

So I'm off to find my What's Next? Subject.

Your steps to starting a Business.(Part 2-1)

We already talked about how a business, either sales products or services, and where to get an idea for a business.

For someone starting a business for the first time there is an emotion phrase, that they tend to face. It's full of fears, and what if's.

They are like my daughter standing on the diving board at the deep end of a pool on the last day of our vaction. I can only imagine that as she stood on the board the first time she was thinking back to our first day of vacation and how we all discovered that the shallow end of the pool was over her head. I was already on the move to help my daughter by the time the other adults around us realized she was in trouble. I can remember seeing the fear in her eyes as I scooped her up to sit on my hip. I smiled at her as I told her how proud I was of her, but that hadn't been how I planned for her to learn how to swim. We put a swimming vest on her and she being the dare devil she is, was quickly back in the water with her brother and the other kids. The Diving Board did make her pause and back away three different times before she acutally jumped into the deep end of the pool.

All I could do to help my daughter face her fears of the deep end of the pool was to be in the water on the deep side, ready to come to her aid if she needed me once she jumped.

It's been so long ago since I started my first business that I don't remember what my fears were. What are your fears? Are you willing to share your fears?

Your steps to starting a Business.

Because of the internet, these days getting a business started is just as easy as putting a pot of water on the stove.

Nothing is going to happen to that pot of water unless you add heat. The same applies to your business.

A business (pot of water) takes at least a year of you adding heat before you will start to see bubbles. Excepting faster results because it's an online business is setting yourself, up to fail.

Boiling any business down to it's core you find they are either selling a product or service. If you boil a business down and don't find that they are selling a product or service then it's a very good chance that it's a scam.

My blog falls under services. My online store falls under products.

Because of the internet, there is a lot of new types of services, and a lot of new ways for scammers to scam a person. They are still called Con-men.(They are not just men, there are women as well. They are really good sales-people.) Someone just starting a business for the first time makes easy prey for Con-men.

Ok, I've warned you about Con-men, I've discussed products and services with you, and I've hopefully put your mind to a realistic time frame.

Your finding this blog entry means your still in the research phrase of starting a business. There are many steps one has to go through before they actually Start a business. Your doing research raises the odds of your succeeding in becoming a successful business person.

The first stage is an idea for a business. You have to decided if your idea is a product or service.

If you came here looking for an idea for a business then I suggest you look at your skills and knowledge. Starting a business based on your skills and knowledge means you won't be so easily taken in by a Con-man.

Next post will be Friday at 6pm central standard time.