The six books of the Business Start-up Superbook are as follows:
Book 1. Business Start-up Basics
Book 2. Business Structure: How to Start a Simple Sole Proprietorship to Taking a Business Public
Book 3. Buy & Sell a Business/ Buy a Franchise Guide
Book 4. People Power in Business & Work: Get Ahead by Loving People or Pretending to
Book 5. United States Business & Personal Tax Guide
Book 6. Business & Employment Law Superbook: Most Businesses Need a Lawyer/ Workers Have Rights
Many people around the world around start a business every single day. For some, the demand is there. They can get plenty of customers because people really want and need that service or product. For others, they’re in a competitive market to start out with.
Many people have romantic notions about starting a restaurant or bar. I’ve watched probably every episode of the TV show Bar Rescue with John Tapper because I wanted to see people starting a bar with easy-breezy delusions only to realize it’s hard, competitive and the customers don’t care. If you can’t serve them a good hamburger and a cold beer in a relaxed environment at a good price they’re gone to the next guy down the street and there is always competition with bars and restaurants.
The other sore spot is internet selling. Forget it for most things. Amazon, the yahoo store and the ebay mall have got almost every niche covered by now.
I was a math teacher a long time ago. A guy in my grade 10 math class said I don’t need this styuff. I’m gonna buy a garbage truck and some garbage bins and offer a garbage removal service to people and companies. He’s in business thirty years later because it’s a dirty business that nobody wants to do that everybody needs.
The brother of my best friend in college did this business too in another city. My friend told me he’s rich now while my friend is a speech therapist going to work everyday. Maybe he loves his work but he’s not in charge like a business owner who has a certain amount of freedom which is one reason why people want to run their own businesses.
The other reasons are:
the opportunity to make way more money than any job
financial security, you can get fired from any job at any time
Having said all that, you have to be smart when picking a business upfront because business failures and bankrupties are very common. I see dead websites all the time, people starting businesses that failed.
Why do you think all those big companies do all that market research upfront? They do surveys, study the statistics on that area (it’s easy on free government and private statistics websites that break areas down into many categories) and walk/ drive around the area to see what’s really going on.
It’s not as simple seeing a storefront place for rent, renting it then starting a business. You have to look around, see if people want that kind of business there. I lived in a residential neighborhood where a guy started a bar but it didn’t work because in our city, Halifax, NS Canada, all the bars are downtown in one area. I guess most of the patrons of bars, young people, like that, to walk around and visit ten bars if they want. The idea of the neighborhood bar is gone in our area. Older people sit home, watch TV and go on the computer. They don’t go out like the Brits do with their many pubs full of older people.
There is always a unique idea around that could get marketed where you live. I saw an Asian trade show on video. A friend of mine went to Japan and Dubai. He said they’re ten years ahead of us in the technology they use to live. Those products don’t exist around here.
The market is wide open for two things:
the basic things everybody needs like food, clothes, transportation (uber), lodgings (b2b), plumbing, lights, etc.
the next new thing, either a gimmick or a real, bonafide practical thing like the internet, cellphones, facebook, Netflix, non-gas cars, etc.
There is risk in life
Book 1. Business Start-up Basics
Book 2. Business Structure: How to Start a Simple Sole Proprietorship to Taking a Business Public
Book 3. Buy & Sell a Business/ Buy a Franchise Guide
Book 4. People Power in Business & Work: Get Ahead by Loving People or Pretending to
Book 5. United States Business & Personal Tax Guide
Book 6. Business & Employment Law Superbook: Most Businesses Need a Lawyer/ Workers Have Rights
Many people around the world around start a business every single day. For some, the demand is there. They can get plenty of customers because people really want and need that service or product. For others, they’re in a competitive market to start out with.
Many people have romantic notions about starting a restaurant or bar. I’ve watched probably every episode of the TV show Bar Rescue with John Tapper because I wanted to see people starting a bar with easy-breezy delusions only to realize it’s hard, competitive and the customers don’t care. If you can’t serve them a good hamburger and a cold beer in a relaxed environment at a good price they’re gone to the next guy down the street and there is always competition with bars and restaurants.
The other sore spot is internet selling. Forget it for most things. Amazon, the yahoo store and the ebay mall have got almost every niche covered by now.
I was a math teacher a long time ago. A guy in my grade 10 math class said I don’t need this styuff. I’m gonna buy a garbage truck and some garbage bins and offer a garbage removal service to people and companies. He’s in business thirty years later because it’s a dirty business that nobody wants to do that everybody needs.
The brother of my best friend in college did this business too in another city. My friend told me he’s rich now while my friend is a speech therapist going to work everyday. Maybe he loves his work but he’s not in charge like a business owner who has a certain amount of freedom which is one reason why people want to run their own businesses.
The other reasons are:
the opportunity to make way more money than any job
financial security, you can get fired from any job at any time
Having said all that, you have to be smart when picking a business upfront because business failures and bankrupties are very common. I see dead websites all the time, people starting businesses that failed.
Why do you think all those big companies do all that market research upfront? They do surveys, study the statistics on that area (it’s easy on free government and private statistics websites that break areas down into many categories) and walk/ drive around the area to see what’s really going on.
It’s not as simple seeing a storefront place for rent, renting it then starting a business. You have to look around, see if people want that kind of business there. I lived in a residential neighborhood where a guy started a bar but it didn’t work because in our city, Halifax, NS Canada, all the bars are downtown in one area. I guess most of the patrons of bars, young people, like that, to walk around and visit ten bars if they want. The idea of the neighborhood bar is gone in our area. Older people sit home, watch TV and go on the computer. They don’t go out like the Brits do with their many pubs full of older people.
There is always a unique idea around that could get marketed where you live. I saw an Asian trade show on video. A friend of mine went to Japan and Dubai. He said they’re ten years ahead of us in the technology they use to live. Those products don’t exist around here.
The market is wide open for two things:
the basic things everybody needs like food, clothes, transportation (uber), lodgings (b2b), plumbing, lights, etc.
the next new thing, either a gimmick or a real, bonafide practical thing like the internet, cellphones, facebook, Netflix, non-gas cars, etc.
There is risk in life
