subject: Conceptualizing A New Business [print this page] Many people wonder what kind of business they should start. It is a question that is quite too open and too broad to be answered directly.
Even advisers and so-called gurus do not have the right to recommend or tell others what business to start. The answer to such question - what business should I start? - is yourself.
We all have different skills, different passions, and different abilities to excel at something. If you're thinking about starting a business you first need to really look into your own character. You have to dig deep within and find out the source of what really, really makes you happy in life.
Once you find that, then and only then that you can start the legwork of formally starting the business. But unless you've found the source of what drives your passion, you've got nothing. You're a car running on low fuel.
Advisers would never tell someone to go ahead and launch a business directly. Instead, they would make them think to go into research. It is a road to take in order to understand many existing businesses. It is a learning process in which you gather information and analyze them.
With the current trend, people are engaged too much with the world wide web and most of them wants to start an online business. It is then recommended that before doing so, you should surf the internet. And surfing means really surfing. Visiting lots and lots of websites and learn how they do it. How the earn? What business models they use? How was it started? And any questions that you would come to think of in any company you have looked into.
This type of thinking will be a great primer for the next step. The next step is to forget about everything you've just absorbed. Don't worry it's still in your subconscious...just don't directly think about it. It's now time to really get crazy and start brainstorming from scratch. This is what's really going to differentiate your service from the masses. Make you stand out.
This is the time when you just carry around a pad with you all day long and allow ideas to come freely; jot them down and continue the process over and over again until your ideas begin to take shape.
Your mind is the best tool you have; the best weapon in your arsenal; and the best canvass for your masterpiece. So with the information you absorbed when looking at other companies, the ideas you written down when you were brainstorming with your pen and pad, and the constant improving upon your new concepts, you have become deadly!
