The best practice for small business begin with planning, yet most people fail in business because they don't plan adequately.
98% of small businesses fall, is in attracting traffic, the visitors who bring in income. Yet many start with the cash register!
Before you start home based business, you need to have a small business startup idea. You need to brainstorm a high-potential idea. Discover the best Site Concepts for you. Then narrow them down to the one with the most potential. Remember... it takes just as much time to build a low-potential business as a high-potential one. So invest the time now to maximize your returns later.
If you pick the wrong concept, if you develop the wrong topics, if you pick the wrong affiliate programs... - You'll get the wrong results
Guidline here is to identify the 3 most suitable Site Concepts for yourself.
How do you do that?
Find Your Passion. Passion makes work fun and easy… • What is it that you love to talk about? Read about? • What is your hobby? • What do you do for fun and games? • What are your natural talents? • What special body of knowledge have you learned from your job? • What do you do day after day, without even thinking about it (ex., child-rearing, taking care of sick parents, renovation contractor, customs inspector).
Think about what you do in a typical day, and what you’ve learnedfrom it…
• What sections of a bookstore or a magazine shop do you automatically gravitate toward?
• What kind of TV shows do you tend to like most? Movies?
What activities do you enjoy most about your current occupation?...
• Is it research?
• Helping customers achieve their goals?
• Managing other people?
• Teaching or explaining things to others?
• Talking/selling on the phone?
• Organizing things?
• Making a process easier?
• Discovering or creating new products or services?
• Marketing products?
Problems are also a good source for ideas because problems need solutions!…
• What bugs you?
• What’s tedious?
• What does not work?...
We all encounter obstacles, problems, and nasty people in the course of whatever it is that we do every day. What are the three biggest problems in your work place? What are your biggest pains as a parent, or as a stepparent, or as a gardener, etc.?
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (!), and it is not as easy as it sound, is to find a subject that you really know and like.
Advertising Aerospace Agriculture/farming Antiques and collectibles Apparel/clothing/fashi on Architecture/buildings Arts & Crafts Auctions Automotive Aviation Beverages Books Chemicals Children/parenting Cleaning Communications Computers Construction Consulting Conventions/Trade Shows
Design Disabilities Education Electronics Employment Energy Engineering Entertainment Environment Ergonomics Financial services Food Gambling Games Government Health Hobbies Home/garden/flowers/ plants Hospitality Information Jewelry Law
Manufacturing Minerals Music New age Office supplies Publishing Real Estate Religion/Spirituality Research and Development Retail management Science Security Sex Software Sports Telecommunications Toys Trade Transportation Travel Video Weather
Write down concepts as they hit you -- make the list as long as you can. Don’t censor yourself. Just write down ideas for Site Concepts as they occur.
Next, pick the three concepts that you love the most and that you think would have some appeal for others -- this is your “short list” of Site Concepts. Remember... if a concept really turns you on, you won’t be working. You’ll be playing. So focus on topics that you love.
