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      Evaluating Your Ideas

      Brad Sugars by Brad Sugars
      Oct 31, 2009
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      Thinking up a great idea is a first step; it’s critical that you take the time to thoroughly examine the idea that’s to become your future livelihood. As most business owners eventually learn, it’s not the person running the business, the marketing or the employees that make or break a company’s success; it’s the quality and profitability of the idea behind the company.

      When you go into business, you have to look at the idea or opportunity driving it from a different angle from what you might assume. Most people wrongly choose a business based on one of two personal biases:

      1. It’s a business they already know. The hairdresser opens a salon, the lawyer his or her own practice and so on. Generally, a huge mistake. They’re thinking about the job, not the business. Just because you’re a good chef doesn’t mean you know how to run a restaurant. More important, it doesn’t mean a restaurant would be successful in your market.
      2. It’s a product or service they’ve fallen in love with. Again, just because you love something doesn’t mean a profitable business will come of it. This is especially true for first-time entrepreneurs. Learning to run a business is hard enough; you don’t need to make it any harder by doing something you love rather than something customers love paying you a good profit for.

      How to take an idea to a profitable venture:

      How can you be sure your intriguing idea is also something from which you can truly make a profit? There are three essential considerations:

      1. Make sure the product or service has a repeat buy.

      This is by far the most important aspect of long-term business success. You have to have a product or service that people will keep buying. It’s better and more profitable, in my opinion, to have a pool cleaning company than a pool building company, for example. Put another way, a business owner should focus on getting a customer once, but making a profit from that person for a very long time.

      2. Be certain you have a high profit margin.

      There are very few companies that can compete long-term on a “we are cheaper”marketing platform. In any new business, you need to watch your cash flow – and if you’re trying to work with low profit margins and make gains in volume,you’ll need to have a high level of working capital to keep you running through the lean profits early on. Having a higher margin is extremely important when you’re growing a business so you can self-finance your growth.

      3. Build a strong support team because a good idea isn’t enough.

      The idea counts most, yet a quality idea must still have a great team of people behind it to give it wings. Time after time, when people bring me a business investment proposal or an idea they want to take to market, I ask them who’s on their team and they respond with something crazy like: “Oh, we haven’t hired anyone yet.” Get a board of advisors. Get a team of professional accountants, coaches, lawyers and bankers. A great team will greatly improve the chances of success for any business.

      Once you understand this, the question is,which industries are gold rushes right now? With an ageing population, health and leisure are growing industry segments. Professional advice is at an all-time high in many fields. Or, you may want to look at my old favourite: staple products and services, like paper or plumbing, that you can deliver just a little better than the competition.

      One last point: start with the end in mind.Look for an idea you can take national or, even better, global at some stage.It might be fun and a challenge to establish yourself locally right now, but eventually you’ll want to build something much bigger.


      Quick Tip

      What would I choose if I were going into business today? I would start with one premise and some hot industries. The premise is, you don’t make money panning for gold, you make money selling pans. Get in the way of a buying frenzy, and you’ll be a success. The fastest way to make a restaurant profitable is not by having a great chef and great décor; it’s by attracting a starving crowd with money.

      Brad Sugars

      Brad Sugars

      Brad Sugars is a startup expert and the writer of 14 business books including “The Business Coach”, “Instant Cashflow”, “Successful Franchising” and “Billionaire in Training”. He is the founder of ActionCOACH, a business coaching franchise.

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