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Some advice about networking and elevator pitches

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I guess the question is why not. Most large company’s start backwards, they know their customers, know what they want, tested the message and basically done ther best to remove risk. If you’ve done the same, congratulations you’ve started backwards if not then it is time

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Today more than ever people like you are thinking about starting a business. Record layoffs, have forced very talented people to lose their only source of incomeand in many ways the loss of a job leaves them emotionally devastated. If you’ve been laid off all of the sudden not only have you lost your income but if you’ve worked for a number of years in your profession you may have lost your self worth. You may have taken the layoff personally.

Well if that is the case, remember a few things. You have skills, talents, interests and hobbies that may be easily converted into a business that can either tide you over until you find a new job or perhaps prevent you from ever having to find another job.

So,the question is how to you leverage your talents, skills and interests and create a business that can bring in some money and more importantly how do you minimize the startup risk. How do you know your business idea will work, resonate in the market and find customers that are willing to PAY for your new business. The answer is to Start a Business Backwards, with the end (of the startup in mind), the end being customers that are paying for your service. or products. Thats what starting backwards means. It means you find your market and customers first and (in some cases) get them to pay before you launch.

Next post. How to Start a Business Backwards

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In the next couple of weeks, I will be talking about starting backwards, how to find customers, how to test to success and more. Register for this very limited FREE seminar today Start A Business Backwards

To describe what Start A Business Backwards means I must first talk about words. You see, for me words have meanings and in order to understand the words you have to understand the meanings clearly. I also believe that words are things (they create things for sure) and that the more specific you are with your words the closer you get to your goal. So first lets get some definitions.

What is a business? The word business derives from the word “bisy-ness” Middle English (14th century) and the word means “a usually commercial or mercantile activity engaged in as a means of livelihood”. So a business is an entity that create profits. In order for a business to be a business it needs customers or clients, so lets define both of those words. The word customer means “one that purchases a commodity or service” and word client means “one that is under the protection of another”.

These definitions are important to our next post where will define the goal of a business and how a business with customers differs from a business with clients.