So this post will cover what I have done in the last few days in my challenge to start a business and get one customer in 30 days. The last couple days I spent most of my time looking for a nice design for my website and speaking with a software vendor about demoing some software I [...]
Day 1 of my 30 day challenge to start a business and get one customer. I started off by creating a list of tasks that need to get done in the next 30 days in order to get that one customer. I tried to think of everything possible that I would need to get done. I’m sure [...]
For the past week I’ve been working on getting my business started and to be honest haven’t been making very much progress. As many of us do, I tend to procrastinate; repeatedly pushing tasks back until I simply don’t do them and forget about them for the time being. In the last week, all I [...]
I was reading a question posted on a forum which asked whether or not a particular business idea would be successful. To my surprise, many people were putting this person down, discouraging him by telling him that it was a stupid idea, that he’d never make any money doing that and that no one would ever pay [...]
Now I have already written a business plan myself for my current business but I wanted to cover my thoughts on writing one. With my last business we never wrote a formal plan. We had written some ideas on papers and some vague strategies of how we would go about things, but nothing was written in the [...]
When I was graduating Grade 8 they asked us what we wanted our future career to be. Typical answers were doctors, lawyers and teachers. My answer was far from typical. I told my teachers I wanted to start my own business. When I was 12 I was obsessed with the Idea of starting my own [...]
Today my journey to freedom begins. My name is Michael, I am currently 23 years old and am employed in Canada’s telecommunications industry where I have reluctantly found myself doing the same mundane job for the past 2 years. Needless to say I have had enough. I’m starting my own business! This is not the first [...]