Start Two New Businesses Before 2006 Is Over
Rolling along with some heftier goals I’m aiming to start two new businesses before 2006 is over.
Truth be told both businesses are in their planning stages, with some initial groundwork in place, so maybe I’m cheating a bit with this goal…Still, there’s no guarantee either business will launch by Christmas, or ever for that matter. One might not make it past the planning stages, or both might be sunk in the near future. That’s the nature of starting businesses: we do the research, thinking, planning, brainstorming, more planning and then decide whether it’s a go or no-go.
I’m hoping they’ll both be quite active by the holidays though, and that’ll be very exciting. One’s a bit closer to launch and smaller in scale, so expect some form of announcement soon (or maybe in early 2007!)
In my efforts to get these two new businesses off the ground, I’m trying to follow my own advice. Not because my advice / ideas on entrepreneurship are the uber-master words of an ultra-ninja expert, but because I really do want to eat my own dog food (as much as I think that expression is stupid.)
To-date I’ve:
- Put loyalty on the table
- Started crafting benefit statements and bringing on early clients
- Avoided spending a lot of money
- Kept an eye on the competition but haven’t obsessed over what they’re doing
There’s more to starting a business than that, but those are some of the things I’m working on while I focus on my goal of starting 2 new businesses before 2007.
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Write a blog post (or more!) about your goals for the rest of the year and link back to Instigator Blog. Tag your posts (for Technorati), “post-thanksgiving goal writing project” and I’ll make sure to link back to you and try to connect you with others that can help you achieve your goals!
After the eating dog food thing, I seemed to get distracted on making a Yoda type statement. But good for you on being a practitioner of your own preaching.
Jim, thanks for stopping by and commenting. I’m probably 50-50 on practicing what I preach…maybe it’s time to make that an actual goal!
It’s easy to talk and tell people “do as I say not as I do,” but the most successful people out there have to be living what they’re saying.
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