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Simple Rules to Build Your Abilene Business for Great Success
In keeping with the very simple but wise axiom “Keep it Simple Stupid” (KISS), let’s examine a few tried and true simple rules to build your Abilene business for success. Growing your Abilene Business Start Small – Believe it or not, both Facebook and Groupon actually started small. It is widely known when it initially launched Facebook was available only to students at Harvard, then only available to students at Ivy League schools, and then only available to college students. Finally it opened up to everyone else. In fact, there was a...
read moreThe Value Of Social Media Marketing for Abilene Business
The Holidays are COMING Small investment, BIG RETURN Increase your sales using online marketing and social media. Many Abilene Texas business owners are constantly trying to figure out how to market their product/service during the holiday season to reach the most people for an increase in sales. Some think that traditional marketing (TV amp; Newspaper) is the way to go, while others are utilizing social media, like Facebook or Twitter. Which one is the best? Where does social media marketing in Abilene fit into this equation? How powerful is...
read moreBuilding Your Business for Growth with Web Marketing
It’s a fact there are way too many business plans prepared with exceedingly optimistic projections. The plans I’m referring to show the entrepreneurs generating an enormous amount of dollars in revenues in just a few very short years. Unfortunately, such amazingly expansive growth is a rarity in today’s economic reality and rarely occurs even in the best of times. And if you want to turn off angel investors and venture capitalists, such overly optimistic projections will quickly achieve your objective. But, many inexperienced...
read moreLet Go of Your Business Emotion
Let Go of the Emotion Our business emotion is great for coming up with the business idea and then building it. But while we are gathering information from questions and assumptions about the idea, and then analyzing the data, understand the extreme importance of keeping emotion free of the analysis process. Keeping your business emotion free of the analysis is easier said than done, but by doing so allows you to reason and evaluate appropriately and accurately. Most likely being like everyone else, you need to face the fact that you think...
read moreYour Abilene Website Business Assumptions
Make and Validate Some Assumptions about Your Abilene Website Business Understand that although you can make all kind of assumptions about an Abilene Website business, it remains that you still need to determine (1) if the idea is one that actually solves a problem and (2) if the idea is timely enough to find a market niche. To complete a well-developed Abilene Website business model, you need to clearly explain the assumptions that inspire and form the foundation of the business model in three areas including (1) the Revenue Model, (2) the...
read moreDon’t Fear Your Ideas Ripped Off
Don’t Worry Too Much About Getting Your Ideas Ripped Off To make sure your business idea is on the right track, start sharing ideas to test their advantages and value and don’t worry about idea-jackers. It comes down to you having to take the risk or never knowing. So if you’ve correctly performed your research, then you have something that no one can lay a hand on. One thing for sure is nothing’s going to happen if you never put your idea out there. If you’re in business, use your customers as alpha testers so you can then revise what works...
read morePeople Who Hate Ideas: Improve Business
You Need to Find People Who Hate Your Idea to Improve Business First of all, I’m sure that any of you can find any number of people from family, friends and people you know that will all give the same positive assessment of the business idea you present to them, very positive indeed as should be expected. Keep in mind though that balance is of paramount importance. But of course your friends and family will love your idea. In addition to people who love your idea, presenting your idea to people who want to poke holes in the concept you...
read morePersonalize Trends
With an Eye on Trends, Personalize Trends & Personalize Them Personalizing trends doesn’t mean to steal someone’s idea, but understand that it’s quite common to get inspiration from something and then proceed to make it your own. For example, converting warehouses into loft-style studio condominiums is a way of identifying a trend that inspires someone to action and capitalize on a hot trend. For an entrepreneur that develops a passion for a trend or has the passion already, the next logical step in the process is to further...
read moreThe Myth of the Great Idea
The Best Ideas are the Ideas that are Flexible In case you haven’t noticed by now, we are in an evolutionary time of fast changing technology that mainstream markets have become accustomed to, and whether we like it or not we’re now enclosed in growing generations of super-hyper aggressively competitive markets and super-dynamic fast-moving technologies. So it becomes a pretty strong assumption we can make, that in order to be competitive and compete effectively, a mandatory property of Great Ideas is the critical-capacity to be flexible....
read moreMake a Successful Idea Even Better
Squeeze More out of an Already Successful Idea Okay, so I think most of you reading this will find it easy to understand that sometimes when a business idea you’ve developed, started, and grown to where it really seems to be working quite well, it’s also an especially good idea to get more out of the idea and milk it for everything its worth. Does the name Steve Jobs ring a bell? I’m sure there’s an iPhone app to do just that, ring a bell, any kind of bell you desire to ring. Apple has been able to continue squeezing the iPhone concept by...
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