How to Be an Entrepreneur & Keep Your Sanity
What exactly does Entrepreneurship mean to you?
Examine why you want to strike out on your own. ·Burning Desire inside ·Financial Empowerment ·Time Management ·Fed-Up with your current job ·A new beginning
Openly discuss your Big Idea contrasting your strengths and weaknesses, identifying hobbies, skills or innovative products and turning them into real businesses. ·List it ·Test it ·Work it ·Sell it
Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock (Full or Part Time): This is a critical step on the road to entrepreneurship, whether to ‘cannon ball’ into the pool or just ‘dip a toe.’ There are questions that need to be honestly answered and circumstances that need to be thoughtfully considered.
Home Based or Commercial Space: Decide whether a home-based business is ideal for now or whether an outside commercial space is warranted and feasible.
Home-based:
·Is it possible? ·Is it legal? ·Credentials needed ·Business ready? ·Professional?
Commercial Space:
·Location ·Corporate Park ·Kiosk ·Retail ·Lease (cost/length of time) ·Competition
Size doesn’t matter on-line!: The Internet is discussed as a business alternative or as an extension.
Just a few tips to get you thinking like a future small busines owner
About the Author
Paula McCoy-Pinderhughes is the former Small Business Editor for Black Enterprise Magazine where she wrote, assigned and edited articles for the ‘Enterprise’ (How-To) section of the international publication. Her contributions advised seasoned business owners on more efficient ways of running their enterprises while at the same time igniting the fire, providing the inspiration and sharing her business knowledge with countless entrepreneurs enabling them to begin the journey of realizing perhaps, a life long dream
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