When to Start Your Own Business? You Should Read This

The question, "when do I start my business? " has always lingered in the  minds of millions of people. When it comes to this question people come up with different designs (or swags) of excuses like no capital, no experience, timidity, no customers, government policies, poor power supply etc. And yet, amidst the challenges faced in entrepreneurship so many have succeeded.

Is the absence of challenges a sign from God that you can start?

Is the availability of capital capable to start your business?

Is having a huge market to tap into a sign as well?

“When do I start? Today, Tomorrow, When?  is the big question.

My recommendation comes from the success story of others as well as my own personal tough experience.

I will simply put, start your business when you are not ready, yes! I said so! - when you have little or no capital. Okay,  i know some people aren't gonna be happy :( about this, even, some experts will argue.

But for a minute, think about this questions: Was it easy when your mum gave birth to you? Was it easy getting into that good relationship? Will gold have higher value without passing through fire? Will your tea-bag make any sense if you don't dip it into hot water?  Did you know how to drive before you dared to learn touching the steering?

If  your answer to this questions are 'yes', then am speechless.

Entrepreneurship, to me, is not a description or a title, it’s a journey (an hybrid of fun and rough roads). The earlier you start the better. Sure, there will be lots of mistakes initially. Don’t worry, even Bill Gates still makes mistakes - its normal.  In the learning curve, its your previous process that shapes you. You learn by doing, not just reading or studying business lessons. By doing!

Studentship is a fantastic time to start a business. In fact, this is my favorite! School is a time to learn to live on your own, have a ton of fun, and even, perhaps, learn a little something.  Jessica Stillman in her article shares good insight on this.

 

I recommend starting out as early as possible because it takes quality time to build a great deal of a business!

Why should you do this?

- You will be motivated and disciplined early enough to learn from your mistakes as most of them will become costly later on.

- You will have less (or nothing) to loose. Because you are small.

- Challenges are powerful human developers; they are like the fire gold needs to pass through in order to become highly valuable.  Going through the challenges will teach you best how to do things. So many people go to business schools and come out with distinction, but yet fail woefully at business. Why? Experience is a powerful teacher.

- You are now in control of your time. (No arrogant boss to yell at you). You will learn early overtime how best to make good use of your time. Have time for friends, families, and loved ones. Awesome!

- It makes you value your money well. Have you seen how lavishly scammers spend their money, or perhaps, how most inherited businesses are mismanaged? people learn their money-lessons when they use it! You think am kidding? Ask your colleagues, or check out most people's new year resolution.

When I started Orangeville Systems, still in its early age, it was easy freelancing (but less productive) when I did everything alone, but challenging when I decided it should be a company, the team grew, I had to train others, motivate, coordinate etc. (whew!)

But most of our growth came from realizing that things were not as they seemed from outside (mostly in the business plan) – and that’s one reason I recommend starting out early. Don’t wait for the perfect time because it will never come.

kudos to my friends who are starting out, they are doing a great job. I also advice that they(mostly Nigerian Techies) rely less on VCs. Get on the field first and learn before entering in some deep mess with VCs. C'mon! its Nigeria not the US!

If you start early (like me :D ) you will soon, become an expert adviser. Not those consultants with little knowledge base of the internals of your own (unique)company.

Start soonest so you can be a positive impact to your society. Stop those excuses and start growing!

By the way, you should read this : How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur

(Create your) Good luck!

How To Put Your Face in a Facebook Emoticon

Emoticons have being widely used to express emotions. '<3' ':D'(my favorite) ' ;) ....so many of them - all used to express ourselves.

What if you wanted more due to the limitations of emoticons ? Well, briefly I will show you how to achieve more.

You see, the good news is that Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event as an emoticon.This opens up a whole new way to express complex emotions. Here’s how to do it:

 Go to any profile, official Page, or event that you want to use as an emoticon.

1. Look at the URL from the adressbar. Find the profile ID at the end of the URL such as “iso.samuel” from http://www.facebook.com/iso.samuel, “222476645460", or "mashable"
2. Place that name or number in double brackets like [[iso.samuel]]
3. Enter that into a Facebook Chat or Message field. When you send it, the bracketed number or letters will appear as that person, Page, or event’s current profile picture.

However, on mobile site they appear as their bracketed string. Similarly, you can’t use them in status updates, wall posts, or comments yet. 

Its fun as you can put your friend's profile picture in the emoticon.

Good luck with it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE

Hmmmmn its just a day to Xmas. Some are shopping, cooking, sleeping and other stuffs.
But on this day we have few people going through hell.

We are thankful that we are alive to this day.

Merry Christmas in advance :)

Christmas in NIgeria and Banger | KNOCK-OUTS (1)

It was a bright sunny day (December 2002) when I and some childhood friends where out to have some fun. Serious fun! Were we playing 'Catcher', 'Hide and ‘Seek', 'I-Call-On', 'Suwe', or 'Ten-Ten'? No! We were throwing knock-outs! Amongst us was this dude, Yemi, the eldest amongst us, whom just joined us to prove he is good at it. You know those awkward moments when the Big-Boyz makes you feel incompetent. Yeah, that was the feeling. I remember throwing a three-sound banger (a small fireworks that explodes three times), which blew only twice. Leaving one undone. Yemi, in a bid to impress us picked my failed three-sound banger and a charcoal (which my mum used in cooking jollof rice) so as to 'lit' the banger. He held the banger at his right hand and the charcoal at his left; then moved them up to his mouth to blow air. Bingo! The coal fire caught with the ‘gun-powder’ in the banger. It worked! but at the detriment of yemi’s finger. After the blast from the banger the next thing we saw was BLOOD! Yemi’s finger got hurt through the blast. He’s fine now. Last I checked he was abroad. I couldn’t stop laughing because to me it was just so funny, mostly the look on his face, which I will never forget. I had wished for such experience again to no avail, and that’s because the Christmas spirit in Nigeria is dying (for those who wants ‘my head’, at least from the Banger aspect of it) Back then we start hearing banger from September and everyone (mostly kids) gets all the sweat feeling of christmas. But why is it dead today? Is it because of the police? Or all kids are now grown-ups? Or lack of interest? I believe it has to do with the economic situation and money-pursuing mindset we have being facing in the country. The question is: How can we get the Christmas spirit from September(s)?

How Do the Search Engines Perform Their Rankings?

By David L Greene

Most companies are fairly open about a lot of the ways in which they conduct their business. However at a certain point you run into their "secret sauce" and that is not disclosed. This is what happened with the search engines and how they conduct a lot of their ranking. Google, Yahoo, and they are the top three search engines in the world and they keep a tight lid on the mechanisms in which they rank websites.

There appear to be some commonality and how each of the search engines rank websites, but it may be that the website rank very highly in one search engine and not in the other. It also may be that some rank highly for certain keywords in Google but not in Yahoo. They definitely have different algorithms and how they rank websites overall. Here are a few common threads for rankings that we know. We know that if a website is older and not brand-new that gets credibility in the eyes of the search engines. Kind of like an older wine, that "aging" is preferential as it means the domain is not a "fly by night" phenomenon. However, if the site is simply a domain name and that domain name is over five years old but there's really no website it does not get nearly as much credibility as it would have if there's been content and traffic over those five years. Google updates their algorithm over 300 times annually. Some of these updates are large while others are either minimal such as a foreign language issue in one of the foreign Google search engines in other countries and are not relevant to US business. This year Google came out with a major algorithm change called the "panda update". This update changed significantly a few things such as now Google really wants content to be flowing through websites that it ranks highly. It also ranks video much higher than it ever did before. Google bought YouTube years ago and now is pushing it more and more for site rankings. In addition, it is still important that websites have targeted keyword back linking to get credibility with search engines and that can lead to a high Page Rank on Google. There are certain components that we know help a website rank higher for targeted keywords such as the domain name itself. If the company is trying to rank highly for search terms such as Sacramento Plastic Surgery, and the name of the website that happen to be "Sacramentoplasticsurgery.com" that it can be really really helpful for search engine rankings. In order to rank highly in search engines for competitive keywords it takes a lot of time and effort and it would be best to hire a search engine marketing firm. That way, you can do what you do that and leave the Internet marketing up to the professionals. Before you know it, you will be benefiting from Internet with an excellent return on investment. David Greene, MD, is President of Go Crazy SEO. The Arizona SEO company specializes in Website Design, e-commerce sites, reputation mgmt, Social Media, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and SEO consulting. Go Crazy SEO works tirelessly to get you First Page Google Rankings. Our Arizona SEO firm focuses on Medical and Dental Internet Marketing Law Firms, Retail, Investing, and much more. Call today to speak with David directly at (602) 677-8981 or email him at davidg@gocrazyseo.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=David_L_Greene