Dream, Believe and Survive!

Searching for more dream realization and inspiring entrepreneurship stories lead me to CollegeMogul.Com to where I gladly found Bill Melendez inspiring story and how important setting small business goals and making your entrepreneurial dreams come true.

For those who are just thinking, take a clue from Charlie Farmer — just do it. It is better to have tried and failed then to have never tried at all and spend one’s life wonder about what could have been. It may take years (mine is on its fourth year) to see a little progress. There will be many let-downs and disappointing results that make one wonder if it will ever happen. It’ll happen. Not because of some magic or luck or wishful thinking, but because of hard work and a never dying desire to see one’s dream come true.

Read more of Bill’s post — Making an Entrepreneur Dream Come True — after the jump. Read it here.

Determine Your Goals In Starting Your Business

I have always been saying that setting business goals is very important for entrepreneurs to do.  Gladly, Jimmie Wilkins have written in StatesmanJournal the guidelines in a form of questions and when you have the answers — those are exactly the goals you are looking for.

1. How many hours do you have to commit to a new venture? How many hours to you want to work during the start-up phase? Ultimately, how many hours do you want to work once a business is up and operating smoothly?

2. Do you need flexible hours? What must take precedence, family or business? Is flexibility of hours a necessity or an added bonus?

3. How much would you like to travel for your business? How often and for what duration?

4. What morals, beliefs or standards to you hold? Do you have strong beliefs that might affect the way you do business?

5. Do you have specific physical requirements or restrictions that must be considered?

6. Will your family be involved? Will they be supportive? What kinds of support do you expect to receive (e.g., emotional, financial, time, etc.)?

7. What level of power or status is important to you? Tip: often, the quest for power might be driven by ego, and sometimes ego gets in the way of listening to good ideas from advisers, employees and customers.

8. How involved do you want be in the daily operations of a business? For how long?

9. What type of work do you enjoy? What skills, expertise and experience do you already have?

10. How important is job security? Are you looking for steady income? What level of income do you need to cover personal financial obligations?

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Goal Setting Stays Powerful

As 2008 comes to a familiar, galore businesses are waiting in lifespan to see what the new twelvemonth give change, acknowledged the outgoing assemblage’s efficient flutter.

Time the tense remains insecure, there’s solace moment to counsel forrader and set goals to better stay your concern on course.

Experts say the elliptic act of goal-setting can be a powerful way to service keep you focused and driven, especially during provocative nowadays.

And scope a content is a outstanding way to amend you do that.

It starts with taking certificate of your accomplishments and disappointments — “There needs to be an sorting of what you’ve through so far,” so you can figure out what comfort needs to be through.

Twitter Versus Facebook?

OOps, before I start my topic about twitter and facebook — I want to commend WordPress for the whole new and wonderful dashboard. I really like it!

Okay, let’s get into the topic! According to Saul Hansell from The New York Times, Facebook has walked away from talks to buy Twitter because the $500 million price tag was too high, according to a report by AllThingsD.

For Facebook to be a picky value shopper is quite a turnabout from just two years ago, when Yahoo walked away from a deal to buy Facebook largely over the price.

I don’t think that Twitter is as important to Facebook as Facebook could have been to Yahoo. But the whole thing shows how hard it is come up with a value for this sort of Internet company.

Ooh wow, what an issue that as a Twitter and Facebook user, how could I not know this. Well,

It All Begins with Setting Specific Small Business Goals

Set some specific goals. These can be soft, like “grow 50% this year”, or ambitious, like “dominate my industry online”.

As online markets mature, a leader emerges in each sector along with a handful of smaller niche players. Think Amazon or TradeMe. You need to choose between being the leader and eating leftovers.

Set some Key Performance Indicators and review them every week. Good KPIs to start with are — unique visitors; conversion rate (the percentage who convert to a sale/enquiry); and web revenue (the amount of revenue resulting from the Web site). Cool, isn’t it? And it all begins with setting specific small business goals.

Source: Sci-Tech Today

Small Business Goals: Realize Your Ideas By Taking The Right Decisions

A major reason why people fail with their small business ideas is the lack of ability to take the right decisions. People don’t reach their business goals because they don’t posses the strength to take their own decisions. They let other people interfere and get influenced by negative opinions.

Unfortunately many small business entrepreneurs let their friends and family make important decisions and I was before! How about that? Has it happen to you sometimes? Well, it is a fact that it happen to many small business owners all the time, and it’s one of the reasons why so many people fail to reach their ultimate business goals.

However, of course we should still listen to good and genuine advices from successful people. Especially from those who are in the same business area as we are. By then, we can evaluate and find valuable insights from them to help us achieve our small business goals.

Hello Big World!

There are going to be many tantalizing options for us maybe today or the next day — but the question is, will we be bold enough to grab them?

Then if we are looking to gain a higher profile maybe at school, on our team, or in the eye of that someone we like, then we need to do what it takes to get our time in the spotlight.  Guys, the key word there is “Volunteer”. Raise your voice.  Speak Up! or Make a scene.

Just like this new endeavor of mine-Business (say it as biznez)! I have been a blogger for three years but I did not have have what it takes to reach that spotlight. I just blog to share my experiences and emotions and nothing more. But I believe it isn’t too late yet to get it started. I realized we have to do whatever we need to break through the crowd and show this Big World just who we are. No one else is going to do it for us unless us!