Starting a business can be exciting and hectic, but thorough preparation can help you remember each crucial detail. Starting a business is literally difficult i must say, but you must do your reasearch concerning the type of business you want to venture into.
Why start your own business?
You may be looking for more flexible schedule or have an idea you really to see in action. There are many reasons of starting your own business but they are all categorized under three categories.
Work with your passion
Running your own business allows you to work with your passion, in the sense that it allows you to turn your passion into a profession. As a young entrepreneur, you can prioritize whatever you are investing in.
Unique work environment
Starting your own business can allow you greater schedule flexibility and ability to determine when to work and how to work. You can decide to work alone or employ people, depending on the type of business you are setting up.
Introduce a new product or solution
Starting your own business might be the best way of bringing our idea to life, or a solution to a particular problem in your locality.
Well in today’s article we are looking factors to consider when starting a business.
And the factors are listed below,
Need : One of the major factors to consider when starting a business is, need. Before you start a business, you must consider what is needed most by the people. By so doing, you will be amazed how your business will grow very quick because you have solved a problem, or solving a problem.
Uniqueness : To be able to start a sucessful business, one major factor you must consider is uniqueness, how unique is what you are bringing on board, how does it differ from what is already on the market?
Specific Audience: You must consider a specific audience or audience in general before setting up a business. example, you cannot set up an oil (petrol and diesel ) business in a community where you hardly see cars, or an area where vehicles barely pass.
Startup cost: Startup capital is one of the major, if i may say main factor to consider when starting a business, because after getting all the neede resources you must get a capital to start everything, or to bring everthing to life.
Competitors: Before you set up business, it is very important for you to know your competitors, do not start a business that has a very massive competition on the market, just search for low competitive ones and push harder.
Location: This article would have been incomplete article, if i did not list a location as one of the factors to consider. I must say, location must be the second or first factor to consider, after considering the start up capital. Location of business plays a vital role in the sucess or growth of an enterprise.
Distribution: Another factor one must take into consideration when venturing into a business has to do with distribution, that is how your goods are going to be distributed.
