| What's the Best Small Business to Start? | | | | - That you know and understand how the internet |
| Usually, the internet will furnish a solution to any | | | | works. Otherwise, it is like setting you loose in the |
| problem. There is no place I can send you on the | | | | jungle with a GPS that has no batteries. You'll be all |
| internet to answer this question and I am asked often. | | | | dressed up with no place to. |
| How can you place a performance figure on personal | | | | - Time. Time to plan, time to research and time to |
| desire? Life is short and you want a business that: | | | | learn. You will need time to experiment, to judge the |
| | | | results and to try again. This is just my way of |
| 1. Makes you happy. | | | | suggesting to you not to fall for the get rich quick |
| 2. You enjoy doing, reading about, getting good at and | | | | gurus. They have lovely web sites with plenty of |
| so on. | | | | pretty pictures of fancy cars and piles of cash. That's |
| 3. Is highly profitable. | | | | as close to any of those things as they will take you. |
| 4. Has a lot of potential for different products. If your | | | | - Work. Only one thing works on the internet and that |
| passion is tires, can you see yourself selling tire books, | | | | is work. If you enjoy what you are doing, then it is not |
| tire videos, tires, tire accessories and so on? Don't | | | | work, but perhaps an obsession and that's alright. |
| laugh. If it is your passion, you will find or create all of | | | | Can you see why it is impossible to say which is the |
| these and more to sell. | | | | best business to start? It doesn't matter what you go |
| The basic requirements are: | | | | into. You will make it profitable. Your passion will be |
| - That there be some demand on the search engines. | | | | contagious and will set the World Wide Web on fire. |
| Don't be put off if the numbers aren't there. Maybe | | | | - Build your list of small business ideas. |
| there is no demand for tire information, but maybe | | | | - Learn the internet ropes about opening a small |
| there is a big demand for chrome wheel information | | | | business. |
| and you could slide your passion for tires into that. | | | | Run with it. |