You have come up with a great business idea that no one else seems to have thought of, but will it work? It’s hard to say, many businesses have come and gone on the strength of what the business owner thought was the best thing since sliced bread. You must be objective and critical of your own idea. Maybe you need a brisbane business coach?
The first thing you’re going to have to do, is research. Collect this information from wherever you can get it. For example, you may see a great idea for a business while travelling in another city or state or even overseas. The number of people that have travelled overseas, seen a great idea that nobody has yet thought of in Australia, and made a fortune by introducing it here is phenomenal.
Maybe the product or service already exists here, but nobody is doing it with flair and imagination. Look what McDonalds have done with hamburgers and chips! KFC have done with fried chicken and chips. Fairly ordinary concepts, but done with amazing flair. Let’s face it how exiting can hamburgers be? But McDonalds have made millions worldwide.
Sit down and have a think about businesses that you frequent from time to time. Is there something that could be improved that would revolutionise the business. How many times have you gone into a shop and said to yourself “if that company could get their act together they would make a fortune”?
Here’s your chance to do something about it! Have you been overseas and seen a great product that would sell like hotcakes over here. Make some enquiries with the manufacturer or distributor for gaining rights to import the items into Australia, or possibly the permission to manufacture the items here.
Why not think about buying a business that needs revamping and doing what’s required for the business to realise it’s full potential, or opening an opposing business, but with the flair and changes that the other company is not applying. It doesn’t have to be a multi million dollar purchase. It could be a small retail shop, restaurant, specialist retail store or small service business.
You should be striving to make your product or service different from all the others. Oppose concepts of doing everything the way others do it. For instance try having unusual brochures or window displays, be independent, original and innovative.
As you do your research, write down your ideas and gather as much information as possible, suppliers details, prices, impressions, productdescriptions etc. If you are starting a business that has local competition, check out the opposition first by visiting their premises, ringing them, getting prices or quotes, copies of their brochures, checking telephone directories, local newspapers etc.
When following through an idea on a new service or product, be prepared to change direction if it doesn’t appear to be working out as well as expected. You should remain flexible and ready to make adjustments to your plan as you go along. Having said that, you should be totally committed to your idea and be determined to see it through, there would be nothing worse than giving up on it only for someone else to make a fortune out of it in the future.
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