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An Entrepreneur’s Checklist For Success Some key questions to ask yourself about your business: be totally honest and act fully on your responses. What business am I in?What business should I be in? (Hopefully the same as for the question above!)What is my Vision and where do I want to be?What is going well?What can …
An Essential Entrepreneurial Strategy Running your own business is a very exciting but demanding process, not having to follow a corporate plan with which you may, or may not, fully agree with and subscribe to. You are now in the envious position of making and shaping your OWN strategy and are free from the constraints …
The Seven Key Attributes Every Entrepreneur Needs For Success Making your business the success it needs to be is not easy, it will drain you at times, excite you, exhilarate you and often frustrate you. It is going to be a challenging ride! There are, however, a number of attributes that you can develop and …
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Positive Affirmations For Entrepreneurs Running your own business and exploiting new markets is a very big ask: if it was nice and easy, everyone would be doing it! We all need some positive vibes from time to time so use the Positive Affirmations below BUT make sure that you have some supporting evidence to back …
Knowing Yourself As An Entrepreneur – Getting Your Focus To be successful in your business, and in all other parts of your life, you HAVE to sit down and carefully analyse yourself so that both areas of strength and areas for development can be identified and dealt with accordingly. For the dedicated Entrepreneur this boils …
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The Building Blocks For Successful Entrepreneurs For successful and long-term business development there are four key areas or themes that need to be uppermost in your mind when setting out on your Entrepreneurial journey. Theme 1: Entrepreneurial Behaviours. This includes identifying opportunities, obtaining and levering in resources to allow the business to grow, networking, creativity …
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Do I Have Entrepreneurial DNA? There is no “typical” Entrepreneur: we are all individuals with our own drivers and passions in making our business everything we want it to be. In the early stages we will be totally committed, inseparable from the cut and thrust of what the business needs, eventually leading to a position …
What Makes An Entrepreneur Tick? We all need the drive and passion to make that business idea fly, but what really sets the Entrepreneur apart from the run-of-the-mill business person? Some people are attracted towards small business ownership almost by a gravitational pull which includes the following Pull Factors: Desire for independence: that feeling of …
What Is Entrepreneurship? Having an idea worth chasing, thinking of products and services that people need but cannot find, making a profit, re-investing profits to grow the business, doing something very different and being at the cutting edge of the market. All worthy descriptions about how you want your business to grow and develop: you …
How Entrepreneurs Should Keep Customers Happy Good customer experience is not just a matter of delivering a product or service efficiently, although performance at this level is important. There are often emotional and situational elements too. If you fail to consider the feelings and perceptions of your customer, responding to queries and complaints as quickly …
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