Entrepreneurship

Passage To Entrepreneurship

3440 Commentshttp://turbed.com/2009/10/29/passage-to-entrepreneurship/Passage+To+Entrepreneurship2009-10-29+20%3A29%3A05GerardoDuran 29 October 2009

A Entrepreneur is someone who can both visualize and actualize. He needs to be able to visual something-and once that “something” is visualized, not necessity see exactly how to make it happen.

In order to make it happen, there are several steps that you as an entrepreneur must take on your way to entrepreneurial success. Do not just enhance what is, but advance towards what will be: keep the long term in sight.

It is essential to love what you do.

When in sales, there is no right or wrong way to sell: all you need is passion and enthusiasm for your product. This passion will ignite the minds of your potential client, facilitating connections, and connections between will be made. Your passion and enthusiasm for your product will be what encourages the sale-not the rote duplication of someone else’s selling system. What you do to sell and promote your business has to be a reflection of what you are already willing to stay up late for and get up early for.

It has to connect to your why and be a part of your own experience.

Second, you must start working your plan, whether you are ready nor not.

Know the four good things that you are about to do: first, that your business is going to be built on a great idea; second, that great idea is going to connect you to a market; third, that you will create a plan based on what you learn, on an ongoing basis, about that market; fourth, that you will adjust that plan over time.

After you have visualized your plan, find the right partner… and avoid the wrong one! You will have a significant advantage over one-man businesses if you come together with another person regularly to make important decisions. Find someone with whom you have good chemistry, someone who fills your blind spots. Successful partnerships are based on the idea of taking different perspectives in a discussion and having different talents.

Once the groundwork has been established, set priorities for the absolutely crucial first year. Concentrate on why you are doing something-not how. Your why will keep you closely connected to your company and your product. As soon as you lose sight of why, you will also lose sight of your driving force and your motivation.

Through your first year and beyond, court clients-and keep them coming back! In order that you become a successful entrepreneur, it is essential that you are the person who is willing to pick up the phone and call people to talk about making deals and doing business. When you make this phone call, make sure you are absolutely certain about the product that you are selling. With this certainty, you can use confidence to build up a network of contacts. The network cannot be established overnight-it is going to take a lot of phone calls. You cannot just wave your magic wand over a corporation and change them into a profitable client.

In order to keep your client base, you need a great team to work with.

Make sure that your startup gives value

Inevitably, there will be failure. You must learn from failure: use it as a stepping-stone. Do not forget what mistakes you have made, but do not allow yourself to dwell on them. Take from your failure: take the lesson learned-do not let it take anything from you: not your energy, not your time and not your space.

Finally, in order to keep your company going and keep your clients happy, maintain good relations with your vendors. It is essential that you support the people who support you. If you are making a big commitment to a client, make sure you have a solid relationship with your vendor.

Entrepreneurship

Myth of Entrepreneurship

3390 Commentshttp://turbed.com/2009/10/26/myth-of-entrepreneurship/+Myth+of+Entrepreneurship2009-10-26+20%3A28%3A36GerardoDuran 26 October 2009

Overnight success.

You know, the two guys who throw together a brilliant idea in their garage, use ols pc as their server and a few week’s later sit down to give interviews for their businessweek cover story.

There is no such thing as an overnight success. Most entrepreneurs who have rise to prominence that make headlines do so because of the months and years they spent in relative obscurity doing things that quietly failed. The project that brought them onto the stage was the direct result of these failures, the synthesis of everything they learned when the world wasn’t paying attention.

Being successful as an entrepreneur is almost the ability to overcome thousands of problems before you run out of money. The people who are great at it aren’t necessarily smart or visionaries, they are just good at finding problems and quickly finding solutions.

Life

Find True Happiness

3181 Commenthttp://turbed.com/2009/10/21/find-true-happiness/Find+True+Happiness2009-10-21+20%3A11%3A50admin 21 October 2009

How to find true happiness

I used to believe that accepting happiness with your current state of being meant settling for something short of your dreams, I now realize that loving your present self is the highest form of happiness .

Each person has the power to find true happiness:

The key is to be content with what you have and work out a plan to achieve the things you want.And Believe In your ability achieve those things.

Life, Personal Development

The Guide To Creativity

3202 Commentshttp://turbed.com/2009/10/20/the-guide-to-creativity/The+Guide+To+Creativity2009-10-20+16%3A00%3A09GerardoDuran 20 October 2009

It’s easier than ever to be creative,to imagine and make the imagined become reality.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”Bo Bennett”

But it’s easier than ever to be distracted.

No matter what kind of creative human being you are — entrepreneur,musician,blogger,photographer,web designer, parent,painter
you are likely always looking for inspirations, for ways to let loose your creative juice.

I thought I’d share some tips i came across that I’ve found most useful

-Shut out the outside world.
- Reflect on your life and work daily.
- Look for inspiration all around you, in the smallest places.
-Make to do list
- Just get it out, no matter how crappy that first draft.
-Don’t try for perfect. Just get it out there, asap, and get feedback.
- Constantly make it better.
- Ignore the negatively.
- But let constructive criticism help you grow.
-Read Books.
-Shake things up, do something new.
- Apply things in other fields to your field, in ways not done before.
- Eat ridiculous amounts of fruits.
-Write all ideas down immediately.
-Play with kids.
-Get out, move, see new things, talk to new people.
-Read wildly different things. Especially stuff you disagree with.
-Have Sex
-Get lots of rest. Overwork kills creativity.
-Have Goals
-Allow your mind to wander. Allow distractions, when you’re looking for inspiration.
- Then shut them off when you’re going to create.
-Do it when you’re excited or urge.
- When you’re not, find something else to be excited about.
-Don’t be afraid to be stupid and silly.
-Go Out With Fiends
-Eat Healthy.
- When something is killing your creativity, kill it.
- Stop reading creativity advice, clear away everything, and just create.
-Exercise

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.- “Albert Einstein”