If so, then you may need to know a few questions first.
If you want to start a business, personally, you must first understand three issues.
The first question: What is entrepreneurship? Countless people are talking about entrepreneurship, but many people can't clearly explain what entrepreneurship is. This is a very dangerous thing. If you can't clearly know what you want to do, you can't guarantee that everything you do is in line with the development significance, let alone that the gap between reality and ideal will subvert the previous outlook on life and values.
The so-called entrepreneurship is simply a sentence: "realize what you want", which can be any kind of pursuit. But at present, the whole society is talking about economic development, and wealth has almost become the only criterion to measure success. So what people are talking about now basically refers to the creation and accumulation of wealth. It is a process of value transformation and a series of behaviors that combine thinking, action and application to achieve the final expectation. "
All entrepreneurial behaviors carry the dreams and hopes of entrepreneurs, but they will also be the biggest hardships you have ever encountered. Not only do you need to devote all your passion and squeeze all your potential, but you also need perseverance and perseverance, as well as continuous learning and reflection. Before you succeed, you will face heavier workload, more difficulties you can't shirk, more pressure and responsibility, and more leisure and entertainment. As the online saying goes, "Get up earlier than the chicken, go to bed later than the dog, eat worse than the pig, and do more than the donkey …".
Even if this is not enough, we should practice hard, find a breakthrough, avoid risks and find fault with ourselves; We should also use humility, patience, determination, perseverance, love and anxiety to melt into a smart and delicate heart; You must also master the "larded school" and turn a blind eye to other people's white eyes, red eyes, snobbery and other things that may shake you; Iron fist skills still need to be practiced, and any difficulties should be faced bravely.
Choosing to start a business may be forced by the pressure of livelihood, it may be to change the status quo and have a better quality of life, it may be to make decisions by yourself without restraint, or it may just be to have fun, but no matter what kind of motivation, we must first understand that starting a business is always risky!
The risk of starting a business is directly proportional to the investment, how much investment and how much risk to bear. To make matters worse, the situation after failure may make people more embarrassed and sad than before starting a business.
If you spend all your money on starting a business, you must be mentally prepared for nothing and have the ability to bear the relevant responsibilities. Please remember one sentence: "prepare for the worst and do your best."
If you can't bear the consequences of the worst outcome, or even cause great blow and destruction to your original life, then please don't rush to start a business, calm down and look for opportunities and projects that are really suitable. Many times, what not to do is more important than what to do. The shepherd would rather lose the wool than the sheep. Please don't have any gambler mentality when starting a business.
Yes, this is entrepreneurship. Its vision is beautiful, but it is by no means a relaxing and uncertain process. Having said that, it may not be a happy thing to start sailing and pursue your dreams, even if it is very hard.
So, are you really fully prepared for starting a business?
The second question: Why do you want to start a business? Everything is based on a motive, which is a goal and a beacon and compass for a series of actions in the future.
Therefore, before you are ready to leave, you must calm down and think about it. Why did you start a business? Don't want to work all your life? For a better life? Create more wealth? Or is it to reflect your own life value?
We should not only understand the initial motivation, but also think further. What's your motivation? Enjoy a better life with your family? Is it because you didn't get the respect and reward you deserve before? Or is it because of some desire that has been running through your life? After you understand it, you are sure that you want to create your own life in this way, so write it out and read it carefully every day, so that it can become your belief and pursue it firmly. Don't underestimate this behavior, it is probably the first secret of your success. When countless successful people sum up their experiences, "persistence" is the word with the highest frequency. Dreams that really come from the soul are worth persisting for a lifetime, which is also a kind of responsibility for yourself.
No matter how ambitious or insignificant your goal is, don't care about other people's eyes as long as you don't break away from reality, violate the law and discipline, or be enemies of human beings. Whether you want to be a successful entrepreneur or a shoemaker, anyone who has a dream and keeps working hard for it deserves respect.
It is important not to forget the original intention. A person's life is short and easily influenced by the outside world. Many friends can't help feeling when they walk, as if they are lost and can't find their original self again. Once close relatives and friends are getting farther and farther away. Such feelings are actually a pity. Before you go deep into the rivers and lakes, what you cherish when your mind is relatively pure may be what you need to care most in your life, but it may be the most easily overlooked. This has nothing to do with how to acquire wealth, but it has something to do with the fullness of life. Please pay attention! )
The third question: how to start a business? This is a big problem, because everyone's preferences, behavior styles, resources, abilities, goals and entrepreneurial environment policy factors are different, so there is actually no unified standard answer to this question.
In fact, in today's era of rapid economic development, as long as you do everything to the extreme, or reach a height that others can't easily reach, wealth will follow. Even if it is not directly related to wealth creation, and you don't know how to use it to create wealth, those businessmen and enterprises with extremely sensitive sense of smell will come to you for cooperation. In reality, there are even a few "extreme" special cases, which are famous for swearing, challenging people's nerve bottom line and playing dumb. There is no doubt that these people have done things that others dare not do, don't want to do or disdain to do, but they are also rich in money. From the perspective of creating wealth alone, these people are successful.
So, don't misunderstand that starting a business is doing business. It is actually a bigger concept. From this perspective, starting a business is not complicated, just do what you like, but you must do it to the extreme. If you are not sure, please proceed with caution!
But most people don't have any special talent or talent, so they can only start a business in a relatively ordinary way. However, if the word "simple start-up" is really realized, it will be a very hard and difficult thing, especially for the first time entrepreneurs.
As mentioned earlier, entrepreneurship is a process of value transformation. The transformation of value requires some conditions, which have been summarized by many professionals. From subjective spirit to objective conditions, Lin Lin summed up all the necessary factors, but it may not be helpful to the real needs of most people who want to start a business. For example, funds, as we all know, need funds to do things, but what can I do without funds? There are also skills, contacts, experience, education and so on. What if these are not completely available? I have read the most exaggerated article, saying that one of the prerequisites for starting a business is enterprise management ability. How many people have mastered this skill before starting a business? In China, at least 50% of entrepreneurship is based on survival needs. It is impossible for every entrepreneur to have perfect conditions, and some even have a boiling passion. How to gain experience without starting a business? You can't consider starting a business without high education and enterprise management ability?
Therefore, personally, entrepreneurship has only two core conditions and no cost. Humble opinion, if it is fallacy, please laugh! )
The first core condition: have a dream and have a firm belief in it. If you are not sure about your dream, or if you have a dream that fluctuates and changes frequently, then don't try to start a business, and the probability of failure will be quite high. Because you lack a clear goal and don't know what you really want, you can't devote yourself wholeheartedly to the process of starting a business, and confusion will occupy your thinking space at any time.
If you already have a quantifiable dream and need to consider starting a business based on survival, then you should redouble your conviction. Because your current situation may have fully explained that all the ways and means of income sources have failed to bring you an ideal living situation, and you may even become more and more sad. If you want to live a decent life, you must start a business. The road to entrepreneurship is bumpy. Without a firm belief, you may give up at any time under realistic pressure or lack of confidence.
The second core condition: a deep understanding of entrepreneurship. Most entrepreneurs are troubled by all kinds of basic conditions for starting a business, and even feel that many of them are out of reach, and it is impossible to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. Yes, there are many conditions for starting a business, but only two or three are the most important. If you can deeply understand it, you may not have to pay a lot of money to have it.
1, resources As mentioned above, entrepreneurship is a process of value transformation. You can't make a silk purse out of sow's ears. If you want to convert values, you must have something to convert. Resources can be tangible goods, such as commodities, land, goods, etc. , or knowledge, skills, information, concepts, contacts, reputation, inspiration and other intangible existence. Some people may say that I have no other valuable resources except fighting spirit and blood. Then I can tell you that these are all your resources, and they can be turned into wealth as long as they can be used reasonably.
In fact, everyone has more or less their own resources that can be developed and utilized. Dante has a famous saying, "There is no real garbage in the world, only resources that are misplaced."
So you should learn to fully understand and explore all kinds of resources around you. If you don't know how to know each other, please take out paper and pen and make a rough statistics. The first is the first sequence of resources, which come from yourself, such as the knowledge, information, skills (even online), people you know, and even great ideas, including your own needs; The second sequence comes from people you know, counting their talents, fields, positions, contacts, influence and needs (because this group is close to you, their resources are more likely to be transformed into your own resources, learn to tap and use the resources around you, and so on, if your resources are enlarged n times); The third sequence is what other relatives and friends of these relatives and friends have, as well as some local specialties and the most common local needs that are not well solved. After statistics, you may find that the resources that can be used directly or indirectly are actually considerable. As long as there are resources, there is the possibility of transformation.
If you see here, you still feel that you are looking at flowers in the fog. Then think about the two most common industries around us: real estate agency and matchmaking agency. Real estate agents collect all the information of owners who need to sell and rent houses, and then provide it to customers who need to buy and rent houses. The deal was made and everyone was happy. The same is true of matchmaking, which collects information about single people who need to find a spouse and lets customers choose.
This is typical of running your own business with other people's things and needs. You got it? Resources are not necessarily your own, they can exist in any form, but you should learn to know them.
2. Learn to explore business opportunities around you. Many friends who want to start a business don't actually have to browse the information of getting rich online every day, look for business opportunities, and even visit projects around the world.
First of all, we must understand the concept that all business activities are based on "supply and demand", and demand is business opportunities. It is best to choose a business according to the needs of a place, and don't easily listen to the market analysis of various franchisees. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, eating, drinking, Lazarus, sickness and death, entertainment and leisure. It can be said that business opportunities are everywhere. A friend teases, not to mention people's needs. Even the needs of cats and dogs have a one-stop service system of beauty, health care, catering, medical treatment and funeral. Where will there be opportunities for ordinary people like you and me
Is that really the case? Obviously not. Society has been developing and bringing forth new ideas. Give a few real examples, a friend of migrant workers who is doing decoration (for a long time, I can't remember the name of the protagonist, apologize. ), squatting at the gate of the construction community to smoke in his spare time, was invited by a couple who wanted to buy a house for reference, and gave some professional suggestions on the construction quality and future decoration of the house. Half an hour later, he was paid 150 yuan. Originally, it was agreed to be 100 yuan, but because the couple were particularly satisfied, they gave it to 50 yuan. In the following days, this migrant worker friend has been thinking about it, and finally decided to resign and set up a firm specializing in this service, with an annual income of millions.
For another example, Ye Li, born in the 1980s, owns a barbecue shop of less than 20 square meters at home, and her reception capacity is extremely limited. After thinking hard, he went to sell barbecues online, and tapped the hidden needs of consumers to the maximum extent, making a profit of more than one million a year. Later, he began to copy more and actively applied for chain operation qualification.
Another example is the post-90s Wang Ziyue from Jincheng, the hometown of paper-cutting. When she was still in high school, she found that traditional paper-cutting was beautiful, but it was inconvenient to stick up and easy to break. Later, he invented magnetic paper-cutting and applied for a patent. It not only kept consumers' interest and sense of accomplishment in paper-cutting, but also extended to a wider range of applications, winning 300 thousand in less than a year.
There are countless such lists. The protagonist in the above case does not have more and more special resources such as contacts, funds, education and information. Than anyone else. They just pay attention to the needs of the surrounding markets and provide corresponding products or services. This friend, a migrant worker, discovered the lack and demand of buyers for knowledge about housing construction and decoration, while Ye Li discovered the extended demand of consumers, so as to design and provide more perfect and intimate commodity structures and services. Everyone knows that paper-cutting is not suitable for pasting and easy to be damaged, but only Wang Ziyue has improved it, and this improvement is not dependent on high technology. These needs have been around us for a long time, but they have been ignored.
Please remember that all obstacles that others regard as limitations and troubles may be the beginning of your brilliant career. So the question is not whether there are business opportunities, but whether there are ideas and minds to discover and create business opportunities. If not, then start training now, find out all the troubles around you, and then think about how to solve them.
3. Correct development concept. Personally, apart from faith, this article is the most important. There are no resources to organize and create, no business opportunities to find, but there is no correct development concept, even if there are resources, I don't know how to use them reasonably, and there are business opportunities that can't be really grasped.
As mentioned earlier, entrepreneurship carries the dreams and hopes of entrepreneurs. In that case, tell yourself that you want to run a career, not a business. If you regard it as a business, you will, like most businessmen, rack your brains to pursue the maximization of benefits, and your thinking will be limited to the balance of costs and benefits, without considering others. But if you regard it as a career, then your first consideration will be how to do it better and how to gain more trust and dependence from customers.
Although they may do the same thing, the end result of two different ideas will be completely different.
For example, when a customer wants to buy a hammer. A shopkeeper quoted 20 yuan for the best quality. And the owner of B will understand the purpose of the customer buying a hammer. When he found that the customer bought a hammer just to knock a nail on the wall and hang something, there was no other use. He advised customers not to buy a hammer, but to buy a hook that is safe, stable, reusable and won't cause any damage to the wall, but the price is only one-third of that of the hammer, and promised to return it if there are quality problems. If the customer insists on knocking on the nail, he still advises the customer not to buy this tool that is used too infrequently. He can lend the hammer commonly used at home to customers for free.
Who is more likely to get more business from this customer in the future, owner A or owner B? It must be the owner B. A shopkeeper does business and B shopkeeper does business. He not only meets the needs of customers, but also provides reasonable suggestions to customers, saves expenses and creates their trust and gratitude. Customers not only solved the problem of hanging things, but also got some sincere suggestions and pleasant shopping experience because of the unexpected gains.
A successful enterprise doesn't just start with a great idea or product. What's more, it stems from a desire to solve problems for others. When you have the ability to put customers' needs before your own, and master the ability to let customers get beyond expectations, success will naturally follow.
You need to know that you do business for a higher purpose than simply making money, that is, how you can help solve other people's problems and find ways. Moreover, this higher goal will fully tap your potential and make you stand out among your peers and have an unrepeatable advantage. Just like Ye Li, who sells barbecues online, if he only sells barbecues, he can't sell so many. His success lies in digging out more demands from the customer base and providing them in time.
PS: I didn't expect to write so much at once, and I didn't know whether it was useful or not. The topic of starting a business is so big that it can't be finished in such a short time. I can only say that what I think is more important is not necessarily correct. It aims to attract the attention of all friends who want to start a business and provide a way of thinking. I am also groping for progress on the road of starting a business. I hope to meet all friends who are determined to start a business, discuss and communicate together and make progress together. Contact information is my user name. Finally, I wish all friends who want to start a business or are starting a business can make their dreams come true!