I always hear that starting a business is easy but growing a business is hard. In order to start a business, you just choose what kind of business you want to start and then follow the correct steps to start it. Generally all the steps are fixed for different kind of business.

However story will be different after starting a business. You have to grow your business and make it become successful and profitable. This is the hardest part for your business and there are a lot of unknown factors appear around your business. This is also where most people give up and fail.

10 Things You can do to Build a Successful Business

If you read those business magazines or books, you will find that there are a lot of information and strategies to make a business become profitable. Maybe each strategy is different, but the main theory is still the same. Below are the main theories that you can follow to make your business succeed:

Network is very important in business. How big of your network will determine how big your business can grow and of course, it will affect your wealth too. This is why there are many experts encourage business owners to build network for their business because network equals to money.

Social Networking really appears at the right time and makes networking become easier. Social networking is a new trend that appears on the internet. It is a system that let you find and keep in touch with people who have some kind of interdependency with you such as your interest, business, expertise and so on. What does it mean? It means you can build a network that targeted on particular topics or for your business.

Leelefever really did a great job to create a video explaining what social network is in plain English. Let watch it below:

If you still don’t get any ideas how the social network can help you in business, then following video is the right one for you to watch where those co-founders of social networking sites discussing What’s So Great about Social Networking?

There are really a lot of advantages you can get from social networking. However, before we become active users, let us find out which type of social networking user that matches our personality. Below is a great video clip that I get from Dailyidea.tv which talk about What Type of Social Networking User are You?

Ok that’s all for the videos. So are you going to active in social networking?

Are you running a business or going to start one soon? Let me ask you a question: are you willing to put in the time and effort you might need to build a profitable business?

Starting a business is easy but the story is different if you want to make it become profitable enough to give a good lifestyle for you. Do you know why starting a business is risky for most people? Because there are many businesses fail miserable.

Maybe you see a lot of successful entrepreneurs are making a lot of money, having a good lifestyle that you dream about. However do you know how much he/she has done behind the screen that brings those achievements for them? They simply fail more time than others.

Those successful entrepreneurs never give up and keep trying even though they failed. They keep trying until they succeed. This is the most significant factor that differ them from those who had failed.

The Requirement to Succeed

It is not easy to succeed in business. If it is easy to achieve success, then more and more people will live in the rich and wealthy life because of their businesses. However, please remember that everyone has the chance to succeed even though it is not easy. Success requires the willingness to work hard, a plan to be discipline and desire to success. These are the 3 requirements that you have to fulfill in order to succeed.

This is another post about what I have learnt lately. I’m following the advice from Dr. Steven Covey where we can remember, apply and learn well if we share our new knowledge with others after learning it.

In fact, this is a continuous post for my previous article about The Selling Theories that I learn from Anthony Robbins. It was talking about how we can leverage on the theory of pain and pleasure and attack the “wants” of our customers and make sales. It is more about the theory. Now, in this article, I’m going to share with you the 7 steps of selling that Anthony Robbins teaches us in his tape, The Power to Influence.

7 Steps to Sell Successfully

Step 1: Set a state for your mind

Before you meet your customers, 3 things you must clear with: Clear with what this about for you, what you want to accomplish in this appointment and who is your target. First you must know what this appointment is about. Maybe it is just a relationship building with your customers or maybe it is an appointment that will show your expertise and help customers to solve problem. You must set a goal for your meeting and focus on it. I think the most important thing is your target. You must clear who is your target or someone who can make decision to say “I buy this”. It is sad and tired spending the whole day talking to the wrong person who cannot make decision to buy.

Before this I wrote a post about the first decision whether we should start our part time business around something that we have passion in or simply follow the market’s hot trend. I have discussed the pros and cons for each decision but if you confuse with it, I also suggested that you can follow my advice and start something you have passion first to gain experiences.

You are advised to start a business around your passion because of the motivation. You will have a strong desire and passion on your business if you are doing something that you love. You will enjoy your business and feel happy with it. With this state of mind, your learning potential will be fully maximized and this is the time you can learn everything very fast. You can gain a lot of experience from here. Business experience is a treasure for you and it can let you to start multiple businesses in future. With the skills and experience you have, you will have high possibilities to succeed.

Steps to Start a Part Time Business around your passion

Now you know the main reason to start a business around your passion. So our next question is how to start a part time business around your passion. Here are some simple steps that you can take at this moment to prepare for your part time business: