Showing posts with label Strategic Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strategic Business. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Tips on Finding Business Partners

Besides done alone, building a business can be done by cooperating partners. This is usually done by businessmen who are not so consuming that will be run businesses or businesses that need capital while building his business venture. To choose the right business partner of course you need a strategy. Here are some things to consider when looking for a business partner:

Networking
How to find suitable business partners is through the network, so you have to start putting ourselves in a professional community that suits your area of ​​business. Try to meet more people, could be from a former co-worker, a friend who introduced friends, or clients in your place of work today. The point should never stop networking, because it could have been one of them offers the opportunity could be interesting or even business partners.

Suitability

When searching for a business partner, just as you are looking for a life partner, the key is a match. One way to find out is to talk about the vision and mission of your business, refer to the ability to work, and also ask about his work ethic.

Clear division of tasks
You also have to explain about the tasks that will be undertaken and the business partner you. For example, you would hold production problems, while the partners will take care of the logistics. Instead, make a clear division of tasks in the beginning, in order to avoid problems later on. It would be better if the job description is based on interest, because you and he will do it with a vengeance.

It is certain you will need to choose a partner who also understands what business would you and your partner will wake up later. Is not very good if you are just looking for a partner for needing funds because usually cooperative business model like this will end with the destruction because not all understand what is being done.

Avoiding Fault Business Strategy

With the approach of the recovery period, many companies began to feel less defensive and need to be more skilled in strategy. When you get ready to welcome new things, beware the strategic mistakes that are commonly found in many large and small companies both in times of crisis or their heyday.

Retain part of the result is bad business
The majority of companies have a business section, whether it's divisions or departments or subsidiaries, that they should leave. Think more dynamic by leaving parts instead become a burden for the company as a whole so that you will be able to devote more thought, effort and funds on more business fields provide bright opportunities.

Encouraging growth
However, more promising prospects may not mean there will be more income. Rather than focusing on expansion and growth, consider focusing on the means and methods so that you can strengthen existing business and strengthen its position in the niche market.

Underestimate the effort downsize

When conditions improved, many companies began to loosen his belt and began to leave the awareness of the economic conditions that have not been fully stabilized and there are even some who boldly increasing the number of shopping. Do not stop to save money if possible. Keep downsize although conditions have somewhat improved. The simplicity becomes an asset in any market.

Lack of Adequate Insurance and Risk Management
Lack of planning for worst-case scenarios can be disastrous, both in business and personal life. Select the best legal entity to limit your personal liability. Use insurance to transfer the risk. Also, do not forget to allocate funds to protect your digital assets and physical.

If you are struggling in the business success of the internet and has not approached you, it's good to listen to this first article. How many Internet businesses are already working very hard, even spend the most money and time to achieve success, but the results are not as expected. On the contrary, they actually lost a lot of money, lost family time wasted, while the imagined success has not been achieved.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

7 Types of Entrepreneurs

Many people say, if we have the desire of business start right away! Though of course that we must prepare for it with the concept or good planning. It would be better if we make a different concept from existing concepts. But do not need to be complicated and hard to reach or run. Create a concept with a simple yet direct approach towards solving the problem, so that the products or services readily accepted by the market.

Many questions arise when creating a business concept. Who is the target market? What is the magnitude of the market that we will achieve? What is a good margin for the product to be accepted by the market? What is the condition of our competitors?
Of course we needed foresight as a potential businessman, products or services that we sell can be accepted by the market.

There are several types of Entrepreneurs/ businessesman, among others:

Early Birds

This type has been projecting himself since the school aspired to be entrepreneurs. So for them, ready not ready for the future after they finish school, they do not want to work on others, but otherwise great desire becomes an employer. It was so beautiful that many of the entrepreneurs had a dozen years old.

Smooth Lander
They are professionals who continue to hone his abilities, as he pursued his career to the highest level. They look forward to a golden opportunity where investors want to give them the opportunity to run a business.

Amphibious
They are full of young professionals with a passion, but just be careful in running a business adventure. Immediately after the basic needs are met, they began to perform various forms of guerilla. Ranging from less smooth like moonlight or steal time and opportunity, or elegant enough to start building a home-based business, online business, or business network. They may pay for his family to operate a business beginner. They also may open a stall or take advantage of his garage. They also may build alliances with fellow workers, set up a new company that has not acted in total.

Free Diver
This one is really adventurous. They do not really care about the safety of reserves and resources. They really rely on dreams and the power of the will. They only know one thing, namely desire, aspiration, or obsessions and their ideals.

Ships Burner
They are the ones who early on had devoted his life to the business world. It may be that they never even received his formal education bench. Their school is the real business world. They move and operate a business for the sake of business. If a business has not run as expected, they will not hesitate to leave the business world and jump in another, even if the new business world was still dark enough for them. If a business turns bringing bankruptcy or undeveloped, after a rescue attempt was enough, and it was not considered successful, they will not hesitate to "burn" their ship. They will build a new ship, and sailed the oceans back soon.

Slow Surfer
They are business people who believe in the saying "little by little, long into the hills". They did not hesitate to build a business that is considered to be minor or trivial others. They are more focused on learning patterns. They believe that no matter how small it is, if it occupied will surely bring results.

Revolutionist

They are the ones who have a little more soul gambler (in a positive context, of course). They believe this one: "It takes only one success, to create a series of up to seven generations of success".

If you have found out which type you are, then start doing modeling with top business concept. Observe, Imitate, Modify. All types of entrepreneurs in the above is not set in stone. For you, it may discover and develop your own type and manner, to become a true businessman.

Create a Strategic Business Plan

Talking about business is no different to talk strategy, the first step to building a good business is large or small-scale business, create a business plan is mandatory, a business plan is a strategic plan that will be carried out to achieve the target. You must have the ability to create a business plan with real business design and accurate course. later than that capital are a staple of all when you want to establish or build a business.

Business Plan becomes an important part of a successful business, because the business plan as a supporting tool to perform projections and analysis for decision makers and policy in the future. Business plan is also a strategic guidance to achieve all desired and to sharpen plans are expected to determine the direction of the goal and how to achieve the goals that you want.

In Business Concept Building a Business, the following is Create a Strategic Business Plan:

1. Business Concept
The business concept is the idea of ​​writing a business that provides a vision of the mission of the business, and the value of the products or services that will be provided to the customer. Business concept also explains why very competent businessmen to offer.

2. Market / Market
An analysis of the market situation: Customers, competitors, distribution processes, and promotion. In this case needs to be made a thorough marketing plan that outlines the marketing plan which will be executed in order to win the competition, and achieve the set targets. Marketing Plan consists of the existing market conditions, a review of competitors, marketing strategies, and pricing strategies. Existing market conditions revealed the presence of massive market demand for the products or services being offered as a whole or per segment. Key to the initial success of the marketing plan is to know how far the company prospective customers, what is needed, which is not cool, and the expected customers.

3. Financial

Explaining about the financial situation which consists of Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and ratios. Financial analysis and strategy is crucial in developing a business plan in order to provide a systematic overview of the steps to be taken to achieve expected profitability. Financial Plan is prepared by determining the actual amount of funds needed to start the business activities and the funds necessary for the operations of the company.

Strategic business plan in determining the key points in the business, then the potential for the success of the business because of the clarity of purpose and direction of the business vision, mission, preparations are more mature in dealing with problems / risks that would happen, clarity and potential market opportunities, can prioritize resources required as a handle or a basic control functions etc.