The article is about 3 things that you should consider when you build or purchase a business.
Starting a business is an incredible undertaking with the odds stacked against you.
Read on for a few tips that will put the odds a little more in your favor.
When starting a business, you need to look at how the business is structured and also its place in history.
Here are 3 tips that you can use to analyze whether your business has the highest chance for success: 1.
Is the business fairly timeless? Are you following a fad, like selling Beanie Babies, or is this a business that will keep customers coming back no matter who is on the television.
This is very important to consider, since you can get wrapped up in something that may make you a ton of money in the short term, but will dry up as soon as the fad wears off.
2.
Can you expand the business? Any business that you start should have the opportunity to grow, hopefully somewhat infinitely.
Do not go into a business venture that has a built in wall.
If you are the business, for example, there is only so much work you can personally do without adding help.
If there are a finite amount of customers that will eventually run out, or even a finite amount of resources available for growing the company; these are all reasons to shy away from a business.
3.
As an entrepreneur, does the business offer you room to act creatively? Can you use your skills to grow the business, or is the business an old, immobile beast that is entirely resistant to change? Industries that are resistant to change eventually die off.
If you are going into a business in an industry that has old thinking and refuses to budge, you may want to run the other way.
Even if you are buying a business full of employees that aren't willing to budge with new ideas, you may want to skip it.
With any business endeavor, also make sure you are having fun.
You will spend way too many hours of your life starting your company and getting it off the ground to waste that time on something you don't enjoy.