Showing posts with label My Small Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Small Business. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Point of View: Why You Should Concentrate On Your Own Business



Welcome the year 2012 with  positive aptitude, attitude, with open state of mind, with self made ideology, and the right kind of strategy to keep up on the success  pathway throughout the year.

Many have been side tracked due to a variety of circumstances, with the right kind of opportune and that moment in time. We got sidetracked without even thinking at first preference to concentrate on the business. We were sidetracked at something new which was brought to us in the form of spontaneity. Hence, we unconsciously and happy to accept another form of job brought by or introduced by our friends. What I am trying to point out is that we can easily be sidetracked to acknowledge or do something else. So, stop doing other things, just focus on building your own business. Remember, if you don’t expand your business, who will?

Don’t Get Sidetracked by Others
Your own business will set to fail if you also wanting to do MLM, part time insurance agent, part time public mutual fund, part time lecturing,  online affiliates, online clicking, part time doing business for others. Please remember, the organizations or principles of those business highlighted above don’t care about your business. What they are interested are the results that you are going to bring in upon joining the organization as agent or broker.  Learn to say ‘No’. Instead you should be pressured to deliverer results for your own business. That’s what you should be doing.

Concentrate in Your Business Not Others
If you are running a small business or SMEs, you cannot be sidetracked of doing other things than yours. You should pay attention to details about your own business from A-Z. Even if your business is small, all the more you need to grow your business. If you divert your time and energy of doing something else, your business will hurt gradually and set to fail. People who are pulling you away or diverting you from your business to join them will not even talk about your business or trying to promote your business. Generally, people are more concerned to achieve their set goals. So, why would you be so contented to help others when others don’t really care about your business? The morale of the story is helping your business first before helping others. Think of yourself first. Sound a bit self-centered but this is the reality in business if you want to be successful.

Be Confident About Your Business
No matter how big or small your business is, you should be confident about your business. Build the self confident by believing in yourself & your business is the key to survive and stay in business. If you don’t believe in your product or service, who will? So, stay focus to only building your business.  Speak with confident about your business. Tell people about your business and how good or effective or better services your are giving or providing. Don’t be easily intimidated by others doing the same business like yours. Just keep doing your thing with passion. It will grow. If Lack of concentration to building the business, it sure to fail before you even get started.

Mix Around With Positive People
Don’t care what other people say about you or your business. Don’t be influenced by bad ideas or poor suggestions to affect or side-track your business. Always refer to someone who is highly resourceful in the business or refer to the trade organizations. Always mix with the right kind of people with success attitudes. Never mix or waste time with people having negative perspectives about business or about your business and having negative reactions towards your business or you. Stay away from all the negative factors and negative human beings.

Get Training the Right Kind of Training Skills
Many small business or businesses failed due to so many reasons such as lack of marketing skills, lack communication skills, lack of finance skill and others. You can avoid these failures by upgrading some new skills to yourself.  Some companies failed because they can produce the products but they do not know how and where to market their products. This is very common amongst the SMEs or small business. Many small businesses have been trained or went to get some training about the business development. But some how, some where something is missing.  What is it? The answer is most of the trainers that are training these SMEs or small businesses are not actually having the business background or own a business. Most of the trainers are purely giving tips by theory only. Not all the theories are applicable in some businesses. Some works but other theories won’t work. Surely there will be gaps or some essence in making or creating that particular business is missing or unfounded. Or simply never been explored or tested before. Finally at the end, how much you as the business or small business owner have gone for the training to develop yourself or your business seems not working.

How Do You Encounter the Problem
Don’t give up your business just because you are lacking some vital skills. Maintain doing your business as usual. Educating yourself by joining some business associations, buy books that are explaining in details about creating business and sustaining it. Join the Internet business networks with business owners actively talking or commented about business. Or check out for the companies that provide on the job business trainers and enroll for the training programmes. Always look forward to expand personal skills.

Stay Focus & Stay Resilient
Successful business owners are resilient in character.  Despite ups and downs, they can still manage to run their business. Never give up so easily. Stay focus to only developing your business. Believe in your products and services. Must be able to see or grab windows of opportunities to advance or develop new products or services. Or improve services or add new products

Always beware about your competitors. Stay current about business around you. Always take charge of your business.


Article Written by:
Wan Rosnah Ahmad
MBA International Management
University of East London, United Kingdom
WAN ROSNAH DOT COM
www.wanrosnah.com

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Home-Based Business

Home-Based Business for the beginners

We all know that the world is going into deep recession particularly in the USA and some parts of Europe and around the world. Instead of distressing about what is going to take place tomorrow, have you ever thought of doing something for yourself?

Anything can happen to you especially if you are under employment. Don’t wait till the last minute when you are told not to come to the office tomorrow or next week or next month. Start doing something now rather not doing anything at all.  Recessions can drag on for a number of years. Nobody can forecast what will it be tomorrow or one year from now.

There are a number of small businesses that you can do. I would reckon that you could initiate something small from home or garage or patio. You can create some kind of hobby if you prefer, or outline some ideas and picture what kind of business that will suit you best. You must do something that you love or like and have knowledge or skills.

If you need to form a company, think of a suitable name for the business.

To help you get started, I have listed below some of the potential and yet possible business that you can do without any major problems.

  1. Gardening and nursery
  2. Fashion designing/dress maker
  3. Dress Cutter
  4. Home Baked Cakes or Cookies
  5. Handy Craft
  6. Insurance Agency
  7. Will Writer
  8. Unit Trust Agency
  9. Kinder Garden
  10. Nanny Services
  11. Catering
  12. Website Design
  13. Desktop Publishing
  14. Graphic Design Works
  15. Business Consultant
  16. Architect/Computer Aided Design
  17. Mail Order
  18. Home inventory cataloging/organizing
  19. Computer consulting training
  20. Computer maintenance
  21. Air-condition  & electrical maintenance
  22. Business plan writing
  23. Data detective
  24. Database management
  25. Home cleaning services
  26. Laundry services
  27. Interior designer
  28. Florist
  29. Gardening

 

The list can go on…… This is just to give you some thoughts what you can you with your talent. Don’t bury your talent.Test your entrepreneurship skills and get the feel of running your very own business. Sound interesting?

If you need some sort of inspiration and encouragement or got stuck somewhere and need guidance, do post the questions here.

Best of luck!

Wan Rosnah