“What They Don’t Tell You About Starting a
Business”
Chapter 10
Getting Started
First Steps
- Create your business ‘vision’ and understand why you want to do this.
- Understand where you are now and where you want to go
- Set your goals and targets and make your plan.
- Turn your plan into action.
Passing ‘Go’
You don’t have to make an all or nothing choice.
You can be employed and start your own business at the same time (provided of course it’s not in competition with your employer!)
There are millions of people worldwide who are employed but also do network marketing, affiliate marketing, internet marketing, or have an expert business and many have a conventional or skill based business running alongside their ‘regular employment’.
You could start your ‘great idea’ business while you’re employed but you can’t really own a franchise and be employed as well, that just doesn’t work.
There are really just two questions to ask yourself.
First of all is there something that you really passionately want to do, and is that best achieved by being employed, or by having a business?
Second, is what you ultimately want to be, do, have and give, consistent with the potential earnings you could achieve through employment, and the time you would have to sacrifice in order to generate those earnings?
Your passion doesn’t have to be turned into a business, but it can be, or, your business can itself be your passion. But the key question is ‘what is the best way for me to fulfill my passion, having a business or being employed?’
In other words, which risk is greater?
Having your own business or not having one
Getting Started
To make your first steps you’ll need three things:
- A clear Vision of what and why
- A clear Plan
- Help
Once you’ve completed the first of these you may then need some help to decide whether or not your needs will be best met by having a business, but assuming they will be then you need to create your ‘Business Plan’.
Now this may start as a few ideas jotted down on a piece of paper, but that’s not going to be enough if you want your business to be successful.
As I’ve explained already you need to think everything through and that can be difficult if you’ve never done it before, especially as you need to cover all the bases, not in massive detail but enough to ‘start the ball rolling’.
There’s a lot to do but don’t be put off or discouraged because help is at hand.
The Business Vision Workbook will help you with the first task. It’s a short highly structured, audio guided exercise that will guide you through creating your business vision with a particular emphasis on your ‘why.