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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 06 9:42 pm Post subject: Excellent articles on starting your own business

By our very own Penny - who knows of what she speaks, having been there and done that (indeed still doing it!).

Starting Your Own Business Part One

And to accompany it:

Starting in Business Checklist

And a guide to Happy Selling

This is something that will either affect or interest most people here, if you aren't already doing it, you're dreaming of it or will know a man/woman/child who does

I've learned a lot from them already and will definitely be reading them again and looking forward to part two!

Can you tell I'm really enthusiastic about this?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 06 1:11 pm Post subject:
Thanks for articles Penny, very useful and I liked the cat sale. One question that they've raised is have most of the successful businesses been based on firm ideas to start with or have any evolved from a general idea and then focusing on what areas are successful?

tahir

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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 06 1:14 pm Post subject:

There's different degrees of "firm" when you're talking ideas, in my own industry I've known people that have decided to go into the fashion industry, they've perhaps tried different price levels and product mixes till they've succeeded, sometimes taking the business and product range in completely different directions than anticipated. Then there are the ones that have very firm ideas on where they want to aim themselves in terms of product mix, image and pricing, these generally fail. You have to be flexible initially.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 06 1:27 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Thanks for articles Penny, very useful and I liked the cat sale.

One question that they've raised is have most of the successful businesses been based on firm ideas to start with or have any evolved from a general idea and then focusing on what areas are successful?

As Tahir said, it's pretty varied. I think the initial idea has to be firmed up, but one must be prepared to be very flexible, to respond to customer needs and feedback.

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