| Even during dark economic times people start new | | | | have available to personally give those lessons, recruit |
| businesses and thrive. All it really takes is a good plan | | | | your friends who love to play tennis as well. Create a |
| and determination to succeed. Getting started should | | | | service that makes tennis lessons available to a |
| be easy so let's look at the process for finding a | | | | greater number of people, provides income for your |
| successful business. When searching for successful | | | | friends and builds for you a source of residual income. |
| business ideas look, to what you love for inspiration. | | | | For some people this is a new way of thinking. If |
| The flip-side to this advice is that you probably | | | | you've been raised to believe that you have to work a |
| shouldn't build a business based on something you | | | | certain amount of effort to make a certain amount of |
| hate. After all, it's going to be you who create the | | | | money, then creating a business is going to require you |
| vision, and you who reap the rewards. As you work to | | | | to learn a new way of looking at things. |
| create sales and marketing materials, develop clients | | | | A successful businesses like a machine. It's driven by |
| and grow your business, it's going to be a lot easier if | | | | processes and operated by people. Something goes in |
| you're behind something you enjoy doing. | | | | one end and comes out different the other. In the case |
| Start with an inventory of your interests and your skills: | | | | of a tennis instruction school, new students go in one |
| Do you like to play a particular sport? | | | | end, are assigned to a trainer, and scheduled for |
| Are you good at creating teams? | | | | classes and given lessons, coming out better tennis |
| Do you like to teach? | | | | players on the other end. |
| Are you good organizing? | | | | Inside that cash machine is a series of simple |
| At this point you're just making an assessment, so | | | | processes to ensure that things go smoothly. These |
| leave no stone unturned. | | | | processes do not need to be difficult and they may |
| Many people will stop right here and embark on a | | | | involve something as simple as filling out a |
| venture that involves a lot of hard work until they no | | | | standardized form to make sure you have all of the |
| longer love what they do. Instead, seek to build a | | | | new student information. If someone needs to cover |
| business that works for you. Sure, in the beginning you | | | | for you or if you hire a dedicated sales person you |
| may need to put your back into it and provide extra | | | | can quickly show them your existing process which |
| effort to get the momentum going. But even at this | | | | makes it easier for everyone involved. |
| point you should be thinking about how to create a | | | | If you're thinking about building a business just |
| business which can operate on its own momentum. | | | | remember to look within first because that's where |
| Author Loral Langemeier refers to the concept of a | | | | you're going to find your most successful business |
| cash machine. Instead of simply giving tennis lessons to | | | | ideas. |
| people and being limited to the amount of time that you | | | | |