I always sigh, smile, and shake my head a bit when I hear someone say they're going to start their very own business.
They believe their product or service idea will "sell itself." They see themselves working late nights, passionately, alone in their offices, putting a plan together and then launching a store or online business all by themselves.
Most never get anything launched and go to their graves with their creativity in them. And those unfortunate few who actually put it on the line and attempt something. These unfortunate souls, frozen like deer in the headlights of a semi-truck barreling down the freeway at 70 miles per hour, get smashed by smarter, faster, better-financed competitors.
What they don't see is that business is a TEAM sport. And a complex one at that...
When you run your own business, by yourself, you have divide up the duties of research :%$amp; development, accounting :%$amp; financial planning, tax preparation, marketing, sales. There are 2- and 4-year graduate programs set aside for studying any one of these areas. Your competition has hired them. And YOU, the individual, with only 24 hours in a day, are going to compete with that$%:
I don't think so, Mr. Deer. But all is not lost...
The most important innovation in marketing since the advent of Madison-Avenue style marketing firms 40 years ago is at your disposal...
You can have research scientists with PhD's, tax planners who worked for the IRS, and marketing experts with MBAs from Harvard, Stanford, and other top schools working FOR YOU. These overheads would typically cost millions of dollars per year in salaries alone, but they'll cost you NOTHING.
How$%: With your very own network marketing business. Network marketing businesses (the good ones, anyway) are incredible teams. Good enough to be beating the pants off of traditional businesses in every category, in fact.
The corporation employs all of the traditional overheads mentioned above. You, and your "teammates" - the people who coach you and train you - market the products and services. And when you do it right, you're rewarded - FOR LIFE.
Donald Trump, in his book WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH, recommends Network Marketing. If it's good enough for the Donald, why not you$%:
Don't get smashed by great teams. Get ON a great team, and do the smashing.