Looking for Small Business Ideas from Your Friends
A Home Business Article Contributed by Marsha Maung
Looking for Small Business Ideas from Your Friends
The idea is already there in your mind - you're ready to start producing and selling your new invention through a small business now. But from here, based on experience, there are some small mistakes that you might want to avoid making. And for the benefit of your small business, take into account all these possible mistakes before announcing your small business idea to the rest of the world.
The Idea for Your Small Business May Not Be Acceptable to Everyone You Tell to - but Don't Give Up.
Somehow, along the way, you will confide with a friend or two regarding this fabulous new idea that you have. You may even make a phone call or two to your family members and tell your spouse and children about it. After all, they are family and good friends and you want to share everything about your small business with them. But sometimes, the people closest to us are the least optimistic lot! If you want to be an inventor and work on your small business idea, you'd better be ready for this.
Otherwise, chances are you'll feel negative about your wonderful idea and no sooner, you will chuck it one side, discarding it as 'unworkable' even before it gets a single chance to show whether it works or not.
On the Other Hand, You May Be Too Optimistic about Your New Idea and Starts Your New Business Full of Hope, but Without Preparation.
Some inventors get too confident about their own inventions because naturally, they will feel strongly about their own inventions. Once the confidence level reaches a new height, the inventor sometimes think that everything appears straightforward and simple. The result is that they don't make proper arrangements for marketing, developing, manufacturing and selling the products! Yes, they get overconfident and maybe a little lazy too.
If you're an inventor, there's a middle ground for this. Meaning you don't have to be either of the above. Once you are able to achieve this middle ground, your small business idea will definitely be selling smoothly.And how does one do this? Simple. It's called RESEARCH.
Inventing Something New Based on an Idea and Starting a New Small Business to Sell Your Invention is Possible If You are Ready to Learn along the Way and Put Some Effort into Fine Tuning It.
Perhaps, your new idea was like, a brain flash, or you may have gotten the idea from a dream, a nightmare you had the night before. Hey, it happens! And imagine if you told your best friend or mother that you have invented something based on a dream, take a wild guess what their reaction would be.
Fact is, new inventions DO come from dreams sometimes. It's almost like Eureka - and this feeling is never taught.
Inventing Something New for Your Small Business Based on an Idea or Brain Flash Should Be Systematic.
With a brain flash or a dream, you have to put it down, research and work on fine tuning the product until you feel that the product is practical, cost-effective, marketable, useful and new to the market.
But bear in mind, if your invention is completely new - that means, it's not a spin off from another product with similar functions - then you have to expect negative reaction from others. It took us decades to believe that the telephone could be of any use to anyone, didn't it?
