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I realized I had a passion for cleaning, for making my customers smile and seeing how rewarding it was to help those who needed it. I knew I could streamline my cleaning process where it benefited the customer and my team. Now, we can share our proven businessmodel with people everywhere. Our focus has never changed.
What these plans lack is information gained from dealing with actual customers. Entrepreneurs need to spend much less time at their computer imagining their new business and more time out engaging with real, live customers. Use real customers to test the assumptions of your businessmodel.
In the first, entrepreneurs learn about their customers and what they want. This can be thought of as a series of experiments with real customers. It eventually leads to a businessmodel that can be used to build a sustainable venture. Continue to experiment with customers. Be patient.
There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s businessmodel and the needs of a startup. Tracking such revenue can be a challenge but is possible to approximate the revenue impact of PR activities via the use of unique URLs, customer surveys, etc. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your businessmodel.
The problem is that many of these entrepreneurs have gotten the design of their businessmodels backwards. Expenses just keep piling up as the entrepreneur tries to find a target market with customers who need the product. It may be something as simple as a market that has not been given good customer service.
For some businesses it is getting the one big customer. If the big break is what pushes your business forward to success. Or it can fundamentally change your business in ways you never planned for. One local coffee shop here it Nashville has had the opportunity to scale up in a big way through franchising.
I received a very timely e-mail this morning from a Belmont alum, who is trying to start a business here in Nashville. Let satisfied customers fund your growth and life is much easier than when you rely on bankers and investors. Growth takes time with this approach to building a business. It is due out in early 2011.
While we survived this double whammy, many small businesses did not. Ever since then I have tried to warn small business owners about the need to prepare for disasters. businesses assuming a very static businessmodel. It literally took them years to undo this model and adjust to the new reality that they faced.
I am excited about the new year and plan to treat myself as well as I treat my best customers. Capitalism works in the music business. Boutique companies are winning in the music business right now — we are seeing David beat Goliath on a regular occasion. It can also help us acquire new customers in the US.
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