Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Preparation and Planning are key to Business Success

‘The Complete Building Blocks Guide to Successful Business Marathon’ emphasizes the need for anyone wanting to start a business to do research in order to find a product or service that people want. It asks and answers the following questions;
• Who is your customer?
• What is the problem your product will solve?
• What is your solution to their problem?
• Why you think your product will be better than others?
It goes on and discuss the need for workforce, start-up costs and financing, office space, equipment, licensing and of course the business plan. It covers areas around what the business will deliver and what product or service will be offered and how you will make money and who you will be selling to. The book covers all business legalities such business registration, business name, zoning laws, Tax ID, insurance and more. . It goes into detail explaining these critical business areas.
It informs the reader about the important business details that any start-up need to know, and elaborate on the key factors in any new business venture – which It contend to be choosing the right business. It coaches you from the outset how to take stock of what you have at your disposal;
• Skills – what can you do?
• Experience – what have you done in the past?
• Knowledge, hobbies, interests and other abilities – what do you know?
It argues that while all your degrees, diplomas and awards will help you with knowledge but they cannot replace years of experience. Therefore, whatever skills, knowledge and experience you have acquired, that is where you are good at and that is where you must focus on.
It takes you by hand as you assess your skills, knowledge, experience and other abilities and shows you how you can combine these to come up with a business that is a perfect fit for your strengths.
It will show you how once you have done your research, selected the kind of business that matches your skills, taken care of legalities and set up your record keeping system, to get customers? It maintains that the answer is marketing and public relations.
It stresses the need to understand the importance of marketing and market planning to achieve your business success. It helps you to follow a learning roadmap, which will expand your knowledge of marketing and advertising of your business.
The book will assist any beginner to learn new and unique marketing strategies and how to join together all the marketing information into a series of marketing and advertising models that offer a variety of ways to expand your marketing program. The marketing section of this book will help you to;
Attract more customers
Sell more to existing customers
Bring back your old customers
There are nuggets in this book that can help you start your own successful business.


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Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Complete Building Blocks Guide On How To Run Your Business Marathon

Your Roadmap to learning is a unique set of tools and opportunities for personal and professional growth and development. Visualize your Business as an automobile travelling from segment to segment as you study and learn the various sections. Each section will help you learn more and more about the processes of building a business including marketing and advertising your business.

The Complete Building Blocks Guide on how to run your Business Marathon starts from the beginning and teaches you how to develop a preparation plan to stick to that will be your path to launch your business with a solid foundation. It weeds through all the jargon and the information you’ve been overloaded with and breaks down the most effective strategies. It helps you to decide which strategies would probably work best for you by being clear with language you can understand.

Are you looking to start a new business?
Do you want complete and detailed information to help you decide if entrepreneurship is for you?

Whether your are investigating the possibilities or are ready to start your own business this guide provides a practical road map to starting your business that will enable you to succeed with ease.

Whether you are looking for a side business or a full-time business, you will learn the ins and outs of running a business using proven strategies and effective marketing techniques contained in this guide.

To succeed you need a plan and the right information. It also reviews the pitfalls to avoid and the advantages you should expect to encounter on your journey for independence. This step-by-step guide will walk you through launching your own business.

By the time you finish reading The Complete Building Blocks Guide on how to run your Business Marathon in its entirety, you will be able to get your own business off the ground.

Before you can make a sound decision, you need detailed information about the industry, how to break into the industry, and what to expect along your journey as an entrepreneur in that field.

Do you want to start a business but you are not sure what kind of business is best suited for you?

You already know the advantages and you know there are possibilities out there for anyone who wants to start a business.

Do you want to start a new business or would it be better to buy an already established business?

How can you narrow down these possibilities to find the type of business that’s right for you?

Starting any business is a difficult task. You can relieve some of the stress that it takes to start a business if you have properly planned. First, you have to prepare yourself, choose what type of business that you want to start. After you have chosen the business you want to start, you have to take the steps to properly get it off the ground. Finally you have to market and promote your business.

The single most important success factor for entrepreneurs is choosing the right business.

There are three common ways to get into business. You may start a business as an enterprise, you could buy an existing business or you could decide to purchase a franchise. What is the purpose of your business? For most people it’s to gain financial freedom and have time to do what they want with their lives. Regardless of which type of business you want to start and the purpose for which you want to start a business, this guide gives you all the information you need to prepare you for entrepreneurship, in one complete package.

Often the best way to identify which type of business to start is to examine where your expertise and passions intersect. Therefore evaluate your expertise and passions.

What is your expertise?

Your expertise is your level of knowledge and familiarity with a specific subject … your knowledge, education, skills and abilities.

What is your passion?

Your passions are the pursuits that you find personally inspiring or enriching … your hobbies and interests.

Starting a business that combines your expertise and passions is an excellent idea.

Once you have worked your way through this book you’ll have a better idea of knowing exactly what type of business you want to start.


You will choose the type of business that complements your experience, interests, past experiences and knowledge background. Before you put too much work into your future business, make sure that the area you choose is the right one for you.

There’s no right or wrong business – but there are businesses that are right or wrong for you.

Many small business owners fail a few times before they get it right………. It need not be, for you, because this e-book will help you review your goals, interests, hobbies and skills giving you an accurate assessment of what kind of business would be a good match for you considering all the factors. It will take you through a helpful step-by-step process, revealing the ideal business for you.

At this point in your journey, the idea of running a small business may seem daunting. Don’t let this negative feeling get you down.

Remember that running your own business can provide you with a tremendous source of self-satisfaction and pride.

Forget the complicated instructions and baffling business expressions found in other business start up books. This guide will give you straightforward and simple instructions on how to start your small business. This guide will walk you through the steps and help you jump from being an employee to entrepreneur in no time. If you have been hesitant to put your plans into action, this guide may just be what you have been looking for. It contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business.
This guide shows you how to assess your personal skills, estimate your start-up costs, choose the right business and stay profitable once you are in business.

This book will help you clarify your goals, get clear about what you want and explore things you can do to get closer to reaching your desired outcome, and come up with an action plan so you can start getting results right away, Within this guide, you will find the Top 50 proven ideas for boosting your sales, attracting and retaining your customers. Many of these ideas will be new to you. You have probably never heard of some of them, and learning about how they work as well as how to make them work for you will be a learning experience not soon forgotten.


Study each easy-to-understand section thoroughly and use them to get what you want. I am that confident that this book can help you achieve your goals.
This easy-to-read guide will not only get your mind thinking about the challenges of entrepreneurship but points you in the right direction so you can get started today instead of procrastinating any longer. Your options are only limited by your desires. Every viable option available is covered in this guide.

The step-by-step methods in this guide are practical, easy to use and understand and will put you on your path to building your successful part-time or full-time business.

Justice Mandhla is the author of The Complete Building Blocks Guide on How to run your Successful Business Marathon and he spends a great deal of his full-time writing days researching and writing about business start-ups, marketing and advertising strategies.

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