Might you be your Own Chief?
Let's do together a few reflections on the title of this article.
Insurance that one day hemosfantaseado about our own company. Every year, million new business begins close deun, but more than 85 % closes inside loc five years following his birth.
Discouraging?
There happen some key characteristics that they indicate who would be more efficient like proprietor of a company. Let's analyze the following questions to determine if we have the impetus, the discipline and the resources "to be your own chief".
Am I a dynamic person?
It will depend on you, not another person to develop business, to organize the projects, to handle your time and to take up to the end the details.
Can I "play" with the uncertain financial risk?
Cadanegocio tienensus cycles, flows and ebbs of profitability. It is necessary to bear in mind that a vezempezado a business, will have operational expenses and of personnel that must be covered before be paying if the same.
Do I have good skills managerial?
Logically it is necessary to attract clients. The new clients and the assiduous clients are the engine delnegocio. I must know or learn on accounting, planning, operations, sales, marketing and service for queel business survives the client and be successful.
Do I have the energy to lead a business?
To have your own company is a lot of work. Are you ready to work 12 hours a day, from 6 until 7 days of the week, every week?
Do the small achievements or successes motivate me?
To many businessmen it makes happy very much the daily "victories" that they obtain of carrying on business. They see it like a competition and an agreeable way of carrying out his instincts to achieve something. They entertain to do it.
These persons take a passion as what they do and have this impetus of being the first ones. They are enterprising persons and they want to harvest the fruits of his work and effort. It is improbable that they exhaust physics and mentally for taking all the responsibility of his business on his shoulders. Am I motivated?
Can I take good decisions?
The proprietors of the business we must take decisions constantly, quickly, under the pressure and independently. Do I investigate and examine all the options when it is a question of important decisions to minimize the risks, and then do I decide what I am going to do and go forward?
Am I a capable demanejar different personalities?
The companies proprietors we need to develop labor relations with a variety of persons like clients, providers, personnel, bankers and such professionals like lawyers, advisers, etc.
The aptitude to treat successfully with demanding clients, informal providers or bad-tempered personnel to benefit your business will catapult you straight towards the success.
This would be "to have left hand"
How will it affect the business to the family?
It is difficult to find a balance between the labor requirements and the family during the first years after beginning a new business.
Also, also there can be financial difficulties until the business is profitable, what podríaprolongrase months or years. Probabemente is necessary to adapt himself to a life standard more down or to put the assets of the family in risk. Can your family support the challenges that it presents to be the proprietor of a business?
Although many businessmen in the long run have considerable income, the “weak years" are a necessary part of the cycle of the evolution and growth of the business.
Tambiénhay that to consider equally the benefits of the full holidays to be used of a company - days I make ill, social coverages, etc. These benefits disappear when one is the proprietor of your own company. It is necessary to think about the subsequent costs of that one himself goes to be a person in charge.
How do you go asoportar the isolation?
Once one decides to work porcuenta proper, you will work only. Can we support to be isolated? Will we miss the status, elentorno and lasrelaciones social that we had while we were working for other?
Let's not underestimate this aspect, since this is the reason for which many consultants and owners of companies of services closed his propiosnegocios and returned to the world of the work for foreign account.
And finally
Will I be able to survive two or three years without income?
Very useful it is to do a list of the initial resources to buy / begin and administrarel proper business. Debit tenerseen counts the sales and the breakeven (dondeni segana it does not even get lost) as well as the projections in average and long term of the profit. Technically it is a question of preparing a plan of viability of the business to tackle.
It is necessary to be a conservative in the estimations, cautiously and far-sighted. Also ayudaráelaborar a family budget and one for the business with the quese puedamantener to you and to your family while the business begins prospering.
