As an Entrepreneur, what can you do to increase your chances of success?
The first and most important thing you can do is stay in touch, be connected, know what you have to find out and what is coming down the pipe in the future, so you can have the tools to be ready for opportunity.
If you try to stay up with what is happening now, you are already losing ground....look ahead and be ready.
Stay connected...in person...get out and network. Social media and internet connections are easier for an introvert, but if you are in business, you actually have to talk to people, and that takes practise.
A good way to practise is to attend networking events. Scary though it may be for an introvert to walk into a room full of people, you become immune to it....and it becomes fun...rather like the lunchroom or the water fountain at your old job. In any community, the same people show up at all the events!
Here's a good one to try:
Guelph B2B Network Meeting
www.guelphb2bnetwork.wordpress.com
Info onthe meeting:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/103631093179177/
To register - email consulting@marketingstrategiesnetwork.com
Thursday, June 6, 2013
More About Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are in business to solve a problem within a window of opportunity. But what happens when that window of opportunity SHIFTS, which is what is happening right now? This is a question that should be asked by 95% of businesses in Wellington and 66% in Waterloo Regions.
Both Regions brag about a relatively low unemployment rate, but if you examine those small businesses more closely, you will find some interesting facts.
Entrepreneurs start a business because they have been downsized, they get fed up with a corporate environment and figure they can do it better them selves (and they can), or they are serial entrepreneurs and love starting businesses.
Entrepreneurs are great technicians and technologists, but they are not very good at actually operating the business nor they are not good at selling. Of course not: it's a different skill set. Introvert technician v.s. extrovert communicator and problem solver.
Being in business for yourself is hard work with long days, risk and struggle, and the income is not always that great. Marginalized, EI starts to look good, but you have dropped off the radar.
So think long and hard about starting your own business. Make sure you love what you do enough that it is its own reward. Chances are, it's the only reward.
Both Regions brag about a relatively low unemployment rate, but if you examine those small businesses more closely, you will find some interesting facts.
Entrepreneurs start a business because they have been downsized, they get fed up with a corporate environment and figure they can do it better them selves (and they can), or they are serial entrepreneurs and love starting businesses.
Entrepreneurs are great technicians and technologists, but they are not very good at actually operating the business nor they are not good at selling. Of course not: it's a different skill set. Introvert technician v.s. extrovert communicator and problem solver.
Being in business for yourself is hard work with long days, risk and struggle, and the income is not always that great. Marginalized, EI starts to look good, but you have dropped off the radar.
So think long and hard about starting your own business. Make sure you love what you do enough that it is its own reward. Chances are, it's the only reward.
June Garden Observations
My garden is a mass of green with a bit of purple here and there. I think it's amazing- as the snow edged further away each day, leaving a mass of brown - mud and dead stuff, it didn't seem as if anything was there at all and the inactivity seemed to say there was nothing underneath. Last fall I marked the location of perennials like the purple coneflower, bee balm, rudbekia, hostas, soloman's seal, and the purple geraniums with craft sticks, but over the winter they must have been food for the critters; except for a few chewed half pieces, I couldn't find them this spring .
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| Bee Balm is growing well |
This spring, a few weeds popped up (and were pulled) and a bit of green began to emerge. Now it's a mass of green, and some purple. The tall and short siberian irises are budding and blooming, the purple geranium has taken over (digging some up later) and the rudbekia and purple coneflower have come up enmass. I think. Their leaves are so close I can't tell the difference; I really hope I get some purple coneflower this year. I did find a spot for the new dahlia tubers, and the glads that didn't do anything last year are doing something this year!
My project over the past couple of years has been to stabilize the slope and populate the woods with plants. Hostas, solomon's seal, and a patch of lamb's ears are all doing well. The wild cranesbill I dug/separated and replanted are flowering, and the wild pink geranium is too...into the garden as well.
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| Solomon Seal in the woods |
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| Wild Geranium invasion! |
One advantage of a garden crammed with plants is that the weeds have no room to grow, so perhaps my work will be minimal later on with no weeding.
Next job - pots for the front, the back, the patio, the deck. Annuals anyone?
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