Ways of generating business ideas?

Looking for ways of generating business ideas easily and quickly and to suit you perfectly?

Rather than sitting down and staring blankly into space, here are some ways I think would benefit you by giving you a bit of structure to your thoughts.

There is an easy way to learn the process because there are only 5 categories you need to look to when you are considering brainstorming business ideas.

They were dreamed up by the one and only Dr Valerie Young, a renowned expert in The Impostor Syndrome.

Your idea will fall neatly under one of these categories, whether it is a product or service, or you might opt to choose both and you might even choose more than one category.

If you haven’t already done so, you might want to download the business idea template I offer here to help you process your thoughts in order and read more about the 5 categories.

You will have enough information to help you come up with at least one idea perfectly tailored to your strengths and weaknesses, your gifts and your talents and you will be able to use the basic formula as one of your best ways of generating business ideas.

The process is all about making connections.

Confucius had it completely right when he said...

Where your talents and the needs of the world meet lies your calling

So Where To Start?

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Happy New Year

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Welcome to this episode about writing a business plan, and answering the question, “do I need to be writing a plan at all? And if I do, what is the easiest way to do it without giving myself a nervous breakdown”

You might want to stop the recording now and go and get yourself a pen and paper because I have 2 quite different options for you

and you will no doubt want to take notes about how to organise the process so you can work with it for your particular business, whichever one you choose that suits you best.

And that is If you feel the need to be writing a business plan at all because I am not always sure you need to stress yourself with one at this very early stage. Especially if you are thinking of starting a micro business with just you, your smartphone a laptop, and the cat for company.

Option 1 is the new game in town, or new to me anyway…!

And it is called the Business Plan Canvas.

The business plan canvas has been invented in recent years by a Swiss entrepreneur called Alex Osterwalder who built a company called Strategyzer

He boldly states his company

"Offers practical tools to better help you understand customers, design better value propositions and find the right business model."

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And his highly popular Twitter account states he is a man who won't rest until

“Executives & entrepreneurs operate like surgeons”

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Quite a statement don’t you think?

But I see his point.

So

Rather than having a heart attack over summaries, detailed forecasting, and projections, because to be honest who needs that unless you are starting a company the size of Facebook, essentially the process is this and you can apply it to any business idea you have…

Read more on my website

Welcome to this episode about Service Business Ideas, the easiest way to start a business today and it is all about how to go about the right way to pick one that has a chance of working rather than the first thing you think of because it seems easy.

And one of the reasons I wanted to record this particular episode is because service business ideas are highly searched, and I wonder what inspiration people are expecting to strike when they land on one of these listicles I keep finding in the searches.

You know one of those posts that say “10 best service business ideas for no start-up cost” or “how to start a service business idea using a washing up bottle and a piece of string”

I am joking of course but I think you get the point…If I am struggling to find some decent information then probably so are you.

So, I want to help you step away from the listicles and come up with your very own list of personalised service business ideas and stop hoping one will magically appear in Google land.

I will ask you though, are you just looking to start just anything because you want to get out of your job, or you have been made redundant or are you truly searching for you want to start that is right for you?

Because, If you get this bit right, you will be able to instantly know if something is a good fit for you rather than just randomly having a go because it seems like a good idea at the time , you were in a hurry to get started on something and then failing.

A bit like Mr Smith and our holiday home management company disaster when we lived overseas.

We figuratively picked “it off a list” instead of applying some logic and asking ourselves the types of questions I am going to share with you.

I promise you it will save you lots of grief further down the road.

And you can read more about our train wreck of a business experience on my about me page on the website and the others I had a go at without thinking as well.

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Episode 13: Welcome to this episode and today I am going to talk about some of the most popular home business ideas you can start, what you might call evergreen topics, and by that I mean they never go out of style.

And why talk about this, you might be asking

Well, I recently discovered people in their droves are searching for this magic list of 10 home business ideas across the web, and I don’t really understand why?

I don’t understand the logic for searching for such a random list to help you locate a business idea.

I mean can you imagine Richard Branson doing a google search before he starts his next business and he searched under 10 home business ideas, I mean what would he expect to find?

Do you think he would have come up with the Virgin Atlantic, or the financial services one, the digital services and home internet one or his a train operator business?

I would understand more, if people were searching for home business ideas forcooking, or pets or something within a specific range of industries

Why would anyone think they can find their perfect idea using a random numbered search term?

But to play the game and offer something to the conversation I thought I would have a go at creating my own magic list of 10 home business ideas.

I have chosen areas of life we all need goods and services from and have to have.

Need rather than wants, essentially. I don’t think you can go wrong.

You just cannot get by without eating can you and everyone needs a haircut so I class them as an evergreen industry area.

So a good place to begin, I thought, if you are struggling to get off the business idea starting block.

There has never been a better time to come up with a home business idea.

People are busy, short of time and will happily pay for other people to do things for them

The rise of the internet through every device possible has opened many doors for the average soul to get on with something they have always longed to do and create their own side business and tap into this time poor economy.

Look how life has changed for all of us over the last 20 plus years.

We had eBay crash into people’s lives in the early 90’s and it spawned a home business revolution.

The early adopters could see way down the road and jumped on the band wagon.

I remember watching TV documentaries in the early days of eBay about people who stocked up their garage with figurines or children’s party wear, wedding stuff and car parts.

Any Joe or Jane Bloggs could be an accountant by day and business owner by night.

Read More... http://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/10-home-business-ideas.html

Starting a business? 11 Things To Consider:

Welcome to this episode and today I am talking about 11 things I think you might want to consider before you go headlong into the first business idea you fall in love with

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Do you want to create your perfect business idea around who you are and how you want to live your life?

Are you looking to design your own job because you have totally had enough of the one you have already?

Would you like to bring some choice into your work life?

I can offer you concrete advice and offer you a unique formula to create the work-life of your dreams...Create Your Perfect Business

Rapid Transformation Therapy

Welcome to this podcast episode, and this one is all about a topic I have recently been introduced to called rapid transformation coaching

And it is a medium that offers tools and techniques to help people lead their life with less stress and anxiety.

My guest today is Helen Hardware, a UK based rapid transformation coach and she helps people overcome struggles with issues related to stress & anxiety, weight problems, lack of confidence, insomnia, fears & phobias, the improvement of sports performance, performance anxiety or even exam nerves.

I thought her explanation about the tools and techniques involved, could be really useful for any of you, would be or newly started entrepreneurs listening, who are either stuck and can’t seem to move forward in your business OR who want to get going with a business idea but you find yourself with one foot stuck in treacle and you just can’t seem to take the first step and not sure why.

Helen can share some light on some possible answers to these problems.

We touch on the topic of why confidence is important for entrepreneurs and Helen goes on to thoroughly explain the 4 universally held fears that hold many people back from success, and they are probably familiar friends to you. They are…

· Fear of judgment and worrying about what other people think

· Fear of failure and why a lot of entrepreneurs fall into this trap before they even have begun

· Fear around visibility and how it links in with worrying about what people think

· And the fear of self-sabotage, fear of surprisingly, being successful.

We also touch on the topic of Imposter Syndrome.

A problem that can manifest itself right at moments when you should be celebrating your wins, but happens when people cannot internalise and own their success.

And as a final note, Helen very kindly shares a couple of books that have helped her both personally and professionally as she moves along her own journey of entrepreneurship and self-development.

Helens Website: EmpoweringTransformation.co.uk

Books mentioned

 Quote from her book:  "comparison is the thief of joy"

Welcome to Episode 10, a very short but profound one about Procrastination

If you feel overwhelmed today and decide you are going to postpone starting your business idea prep until things get better, easier, you have more money, you are less busy, the kids go back to school or there are 8 days in the week.

Then,

I would like to share a really apt paragraph from author Tim Ferris, who, in case you have no idea how famous he is, wrote the 4-hour workweek several years ago and it is still one of the world’s top 10 business books to this day

He really has a handle on how most of us think when we promise ourselves we are going to start that business on Monday or the weekend or when we get home from work.

And I recommend you copy these words down somewhere so you can see them every day at home and keep a copy on you somewhere for when you have weak moments and need a reminder of where you want to be.

These few words really rang true with me, so I wanted to share them with you

Here is the magic paragraph about procrastination

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The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either.

Conditions are never perfect

Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Pro and con lists are just as bad.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

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And that’s it in a nutshell, very simple really isn’t it…

What exactly is it you are procrastinating about?

To move forward, right now, promise yourself you will organise your thoughts then press the start button in your mind, even if only for 5 or 10 minutes or half an hour today and not wait for tomorrow or the weekend.

Give up that time watching TV or scrolling through your social media today just for those few minutes and work on your business idea instead.

Ridiculous as it sounds the minutes really start to add up.

If you do 10 minutes every day, that is over 1 hour you have found in a week where you have said, I just don't have any time spare, which can then become half a day a month.

If you don’t change you’re thinking you will regret you never started on the path towards your dream...

You can do anything you want to you know, you just have to want to!

And if you find yourself really struggling with procrastination, I will suggest you listen to my previous podcast or read up from my website, in the article section about the topic of Obstacle Analysis.

If you find you are dragging your feet but you can’t quite put a handle on why you will probably benefit from creating an obstacle analysis grid and giving yourself a name to your problem.

That way you will be able to do something about it instead of procrastinating!

I also answered a reader's question about this topic on my website 

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Welcome to episode 9 and this is more of a practical session around a book recommendation for you today about Obstacle Analysis. A simple way to understand what is blocking your move forward with your business idea and I am going to jump right into it with an exercise

I suggest you buy yourself a copy of this book because I think it will change your life regarding problem-solving for everything, forever.

But for now, you can take a piece of paper and a pen or however you would take notes and document things and create a grid with 9 boxes, 3 across the top, 3 in the middle and 3 below.

Label the boxes in whatever order you want to start with

This is your obstacle analysis grid.

I am going to take you through a very short 2 step exercise to determine what your problem might be and which box it fits in on the grid.

And don’t be surprised if you tick more than one or 2.

Tick as many as you need.

Now the reason I suggest you buy the book is that there is a third step which involves you read in detail about the problem or problems you ticked in your boxes.

It is the second half of the book, that is dedicated to The Obstacle Analysis GridTM and I highly recommend it to anyone who is struggling and suffering a bit with analysis paralysis, procrastination or you are just plain stuck and unable to move forward with your business idea? And perhaps you have no idea why?

Alternatively, though, it could be

I thought this tool was so useful I wanted to share the concept of the obstacle analysis grid so you could put a handle on your problem quickly and stop yourself going round in circles, and getting really frustrated with yourself.

There is always an answer; you just need to know to frame it to your particular situation.

Now, this brilliant grid tool is from the number one bestseller book called You Can Have What You Want by Michael Neill, a very famous success coach for some very famous successful people such as Paul McKenna so I am very inclined to listen to what he has to say about the subject of success.

Read more here: http://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/obstacle-analysis-grid.html

Book mentioned:

And they call her Resistance.

And she is stopping you from getting going and moving forward with your business idea.

I think Freud expressed it perfectly when he talked about the big elephant in the room to what is stopping you.

He called it a death wish and if you sit back and think about it, he was right

He said

“That destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough long term course of action that might do for us or others something that is actually good”

And I completely agree, it is a very destructive force and one that needs to be overcome.

I come across people on a regular basis, who, with great conviction, say how much they want to write a book, start a business or pursue a passion.

This is then closely followed by a laundry list of reasons why whatever they say they want to do hasn’t happened yet.

I find it very, very sad; so many people are trapped in this world of resistance.

They are trapped right in that space between the full-on and real desire to do something and then moving themselves to actually doing it.

Many people live here, on Resistance Street, sad and frustrated and like that other very famous quote dismally says “living lives of quiet desperation with their song still inside of them”

So, would I be talking about you when I ask?

If so you then you might be facing your own spell of resistance.

Read more here about resistance on my website

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