HOW TO START YOUR BUSINESS – A SIMPLE GUIDE
There are lots of books and guides available on how to start a business, so why choose this one?
- * It’s simple and short
- * It’s practical
Experienced professionals have set out the real basics of starting a business, tried and tested through research, actually starting up small businesses, and helping others do the same. We’ll answer the most common questions about starting a business, tell you where to find information and help and guide you through the first stages of setting up your own small business. A series of worksheets are available to complete alongside this booklet, download the series from the links below;
1- plan act review
2a- product and consumer market
2b- product and business market
3- annual costs and profits
4- The Benefits of Your Product
5- Marketing Plan
6- cash flow forecast
7- to-do list
8- time recorder
VIDEOS – TONY’S TEN TERRIFIC TIPS FOR #STARTUPS
In Autumn 2021 we recorded 10 x one minute videos in Yorkshire in Business Limited cafe/pop up shops – Explore Indie.
When followed these ten terrific tips ensure that over 80% of #startups will still be trading after 3 years. Enjoy.
Here’s the playlistof all ten ultra short videos > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtjrZd-iLQ4YbiFQ70H3_up1_hbLckFKu
More videos for start-ups are on my YouTube channel and you can access more guides, factsheets, blogs, tips and videos through my website > https://tonyrobinsonobe.com
WHY IS THIS GUIDE IMPORTANT?
The writers of this series of guides for new business owners are all micro (0-9 employees) business owners themselves. Between us we have started up many businesses and worked with thousands of start-ups and new business owners. We all agree that successfully starting and running your own business is about learning by doing.
So this guide is about preparing to start up with a bias for action not planning. In fact, most business plans are works of fiction and bear no reality to the practice. It is usually a lot tougher to win enough customers with the right offer then prospective business owners anticipate. This is the reason that many business plans are overoptimistic by inflating the income and the earnings of the business owner.
Only when you have buying customers on a regular basis and you truly put together a business plan with the real numbers will you truly be able to make sense of what you need to do and achieve to earn a living in your own business.
That is not to say you shouldn’t prepare to run your own business by drafting a plan of where you think you’ll be going and how you think you’ll get there. This draft plan will save you making costly mistakes and the process of continually rewriting it as you learn from real experiences will save you money, increase your income in the future as well as increase your chances of long-term success.