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Choosing the Right Business

This chapter helps you determine whether you have chosen the right business for you one that you know, like, and will work hard for and that makes economic sense. Most experienced businesspeople complete several steps as a rough and ready template to decide whether to complete a plan. If your business passes all these steps with flying colors, it means it’s a good idea to write a full business plan (although it doesn’t guarantee success). On the other hand, if your proposal doesn’t pass, you’ll probably want to modify or change your plans altogether.

Be Sure You Like Your Business

Does the business you want to own require skills and talents you already possess? If you have the necessary skills, do you enjoy exercising them? Think about this for a good long time. The average small business owner spends more time with his venture than with his family. This being so, it makes sense to be at least as careful about choosing your endeavor as you are about picking your mate. A few of us are sufficiently blessed that we can meet someone on a blind date, settle down a week later, and have it work out wonderfully. However, in relationships, as in business, most of us make better decisions if we approach them with a little more care

Describe Your Business

What is your good idea? What business do you want to be in? It’s time to look at the specifics. Let’s say you want to open a restaurant. What will you serve? What will your sample menu look like? What equipment will you need? Note that including french fries means you’ll have to install french fryers, grease traps in the sewer line, hoods, and fire extinguishing systems.

On the other hand, by not serving fried foods you will save a lot of money in the kitchen, but maybe you’ll go broke when all the grease addicts go next door. Or suppose you want to sell DVDs, games, or digital cameras. Do you plan to have a service department? If so, will you make house calls, or only accept repairs at your store? What sort of security system will you install to protect your inventory? What about selling component sound systems or home entertainment centers?

Identify Your Type of Business

Find the business category listed below that most closely matches your business. You’ll use the description that follows as a reference when you describe your own business.

Problem Antoinette’s Dress Shop Will Solve

Professional working women like to buy fashionable, slightly conservative clothing at moderate prices. They prefer shopping at convenient times and patronizing stores that offer a wide selection of merchandise. These women like to talk to sales clerks who understand fashion and know their store’s merchandise; few clerks in the local department stores have this knowledge. At the present time, many of these women travel 45 miles to shop because no local store meets their needs or carries today’s most popular labels.

Business Description

Next, describe how your business will solve your customers’ problem. Take your time and do a thorough job. It’s very likely that the first time you attempt this task, questions will occur to you that you didn’t consider previously. If so, figure out a good answer and rewrite your description. The important thing is not how long it takes to do this, but that you end up with a realistic, well-thought-out business description. After all, it’s cheaper to answer questions and solve problems on paper than it is with real money.

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