Be Prepared to Open Your Own Business

If you want to open own business, this is a great place to begin. Our goal is to provide you with all the advice and help you need to not only get you started, but to get you launched and making money.

In 2000, just after I started my first business, I was visiting ex colleagues at the multi billion dollar company I had been running. As I walked across the main square outside their HQ, a familiar voice behind me yelled “Rob, is that you?”. It was Scott, a consultant I’d worked with a couple of years back. “I heard you’ve quit corporate life and you’re starting your own business, that’s awesome” he continued.

I confirmed that he had heard correctly and we laughed about life inside a giant corporation. He was running his own consulting business and he said this….

“Welcome to a world of fun, challenges, amazing highs, laughter, stress, chaos, disasters and crisis – and that’s all before 9am every morning!”

I never forgot those few minutes with Scott. He was right. Running your own business is one of the best things anyone can do. But you need to be prepared to do it.

Open own business is a goal for many, yet it always shocks Angelique and I how many people set off on their journey completely unprepared.

We both love the outdoors. Hiking, climbing, mountain biking, wind surfing, you name it.

We encourage you to think of opening your own business as hiking a trail that people, like us have travelled before you. We took the time to chart our journey and learn from the mistakes we made. Then we hiked more trails. We did them again and again and each time we learned the short cuts, how to avoid the bad obstacles and danger.

You can develop this analogy much further. Before you start you need to be prepared, you may need a map or even a guide. You’ll need to think of how much water you’ll need for your journey. You’ll hear us liken cash to water. Run out of it, and you’re in trouble.

Lets be serious for a moment. Running your own business is a great goal to have and it’s totally doable, even if you’ve never run anything before. Take advantage of advice from people who have been there before you.

Use your spare time to learn as much as you can, not just about the technical stuff, but what it’s really like. We have found that if you have a step by step plan for what you’re going to do (and not just a business plan), your chances of success increase.

You’re thinking about the challenge of open own business. We want you to succeed from the beginning. Being prepared is a major part of it.

Happy trails!