Those who work and start a business at the same time are the ones who take the first step. What they want to do is a bold attempt to have both. Once successful, it is the best choice for both sides: it can not only gain benefits, but also avoid the risks brought by entrepreneurship, effectively combine the advantages of both working and entrepreneurship, and truly achieve both offensive and defensive. Once they fail, they will not only lose the economic losses caused by the failure of starting a business, but also face the threat of losing their once stable jobs, as well as their ambition and full confidence.
Is there such a beautiful thing as "you can't have your cake and eat it"? If so, part-time entrepreneurs should also be as cautious as possible.
Office workers need three things to start a business, but they don't want them.
Many office workers have great misunderstandings about "starting a business". 90% people think that the starting point should be very high, and it needs hundreds of thousands of millions of funds to start. In fact, in addition to the basic conditions, you can also give it a try as long as you pay attention to the following questions.
One: Plan your part-time career wholeheartedly as if you were preparing for a full-time career.
Second, it's best to start with those businesses that require flexible time and can be completed around the clock, such as online sales, virtual assistant, international agency, art design, writing and so on.
Third, build a personal network that can give you professional advice, and it is best to have a wife or shoulder to rely on.
One don't: don't take your career as a hobby. If you want it to bring you profits, you must be willing to spend time and money-the revolution is not a dinner party, even a part-time job.
Second, don't: work normally during the day, and you must always be right about the salary given to you by others.
Don't: Don't be discouraged when your own work and part-time business are overwhelming you and there seems to be no future. Remember that many people have come this way, and there is such darkness and hesitation behind most people's success stories.
Beginners need to know when they are on their way.
Entrepreneurship is not as easy as imagined, and part-time entrepreneurship is sometimes more complicated than independent entrepreneurship. In addition to hardware such as start-up capital, due to the long working hours for people, the way of thinking is often limited to the original level of working, which is difficult to change in a short time, leading to many people's first business failure. Moreover, not everyone is suitable for starting a business as a boss, and office workers encounter more difficulties in starting a business. First of all, one's time and energy are limited. It must be more tiring than working to take care of his own work and manage entrepreneurial projects.
"Novices on the road" often encounter the following problems:
Hasty project selection
The first problem encountered in starting a business is the choice of projects. Many people habitually start from their personal preferences, and often subjectively think that consumers of their favorite project products must also like them, lacking accurate investigation and rational analysis of the early market. In addition, they are too optimistic about the development prospect of the project, overestimate the sales volume and profit rate, and underestimate their own business ability, follow-up capital investment, investment risk and other factors.
Cost accounting is not in place.
Due to the lack of experience in starting a business for the first time, many new bosses tend to oversimplify cost accounting. First, there is a deviation in the understanding of the concept of "cost", which means the company's rent, employees' wages and the purchase cost of products; Second, many hidden costs may not be counted, such as depreciation and maintenance of fixed assets such as computers, time and energy consumed as leaders, etc. , leading to the actual profit situation is too different from the expected, the input and output in the promotion plan is unreasonable and other negative problems.
Unreasonable fund arrangement
The existing allocation of funds is not reasonable enough, and there is a lack of overall use planning of funds. When using funds, the integrity is basically ignored, whether there is any situation beyond the safe proportion, the supply chain of follow-up funds is not fully considered, and career development lacks the follow-up support of funds. Due to the allocation of funds, many new bosses are often severely constrained by funds, and the operation of funds is stretched, and they soon get into trouble.
Lack of emergency treatment
Open the door to do business, you should be able to deal with people from all walks of life, even if you can't please both sides, at least take care of them. It's not like working in a company, where all departments are responsible for handling accidents. Even if the adverse consequences are borne by the company, the employees themselves can't bear much suffering. Moreover, everything you buy and sell is your own, and once an accident happens, it may lead to the suspension and closure of business. Many new bosses have not changed their roles, and they are usually helpless, which often leads to the expansion of the situation because of their slow response.
Simple management mode
Management mode is not only internal operation management, but also involves customer management, employee management and motivation. Because of lack of experience, many new bosses often start from their usual thinking and do things according to their own temperament, so it is not surprising that internal employees often tear down the platform and customers defect.
These factors lead many experienced migrant workers to jump out directly to become bosses, and as a result, they "came on impulse and returned disappointed" and "lost their wives and lost their soldiers"! So for these entrepreneurs, blind venture capital will not only make the economy worse, but also lose confidence and courage.
When an office worker has rich project knowledge, sufficient working capital, good contacts, enough market research and enough management experience, why not be a boss for himself?