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.

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Dwight

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