It can be easy to let the excitment and energy of a new business opportunity take you away from the foundation of research and planning. But keep the focus on these core requirements and you will be better able to secure financial assistance and long-term success.

Strike while the iron is hot! Well, this isn’t necessarily the right way of going about starting a business. In fact, studies show that the number of businesses that have been built on strength of enthusiasm alone and bombed is a lot bigger, compared to those that were thought out properly and entered into conservatively.

A trusted networker, like a trusted leader, has a thick bankroll of crisp bills. Every time you act inconsistently with your professed values, or break a promise, you must spend some of those crisp bills - when the bankroll is gone, so is the trust.

Copyright (c) 2008 John Kenworthy

Trust is leader’s and a networker’s bankroll. With trust, he or she is solvent, without it, he or she is bankrupt.

We see endless lists of small business ideas and opportunities in articles over the internet and they all appear sensible, practical and practicable. The advertisements even make them seem fail-proof. Like you can never go wrong. Low or no capital at all. 

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