So you want to build your business? journey to entrepreneurship often begins with the conception of the idea. It comes as a bolt with a promise that his life on an exciting journey beyond your wildest dreams. the feeling is very much the same for almost every entrepreneur. First, it begins to feel the excitement that often comes with the assumption that your idea is the first of its kind and has the potential to change the world. Following closely is the feeling of success that comes as a result of your daydreaming about the seemingly endless possibilities of the idea apparently is expected to sign into your life. This feeling is a lot like high on something, because it is a way of making the current situation completely irrelevant and focuses more on the future. Finally, there is a sense of urgency when nothing else seems to matter except the realization of ideas. It is no longer enough to day dream about the idea, now when you want it to happen all at once. But not all of these feelings actually make the idea work? Of course not. To make the idea work, requires much more than just swimming in your imagination. This requires that you face your biggest nightmare as an entrepreneur! - selling your idea to others
Once the idea is always the easy part! Once the idea is always the easy part! ...
Your idea is great, but your track record sucks! your biggest nightmare as an entrepreneur has to sell his big idea in the world. Every idea has to face criticism and to the ultimate test of being an entrepreneur. Your ability to fight for their ideas will determine the strength of your character, first as an individual. Whether or not your ideas will be accepted is a function of your past. What about your past gives us a clue that you can pull this idea? People buy you an entrepreneur at first before they buy into the idea. So if your life does not suggest to those trying to solicit their participation in making your ideas a reality that you're capable of, then your big idea is as good as anything.
How well you lead your life? As always, I said, work is not separate from his life as an entrepreneur, rather than work is a continuation of your life. Your job as an entrepreneur is a reflection of your face. Show me an individual and I can almost predict how and what his job would look like. True entrepreneurs first lead a great life, a little miracle build great companies. composition of his life as an entrepreneur is what will determine success or failure of your business travel. Entrepreneurship is about overcoming the varying degrees of difficulty in order to place something of value. It requires more than just a great idea, it requires a strong character is developed as a result of accumulated life experiences. This life experience serves as a foundation on which to build much needed credibility through which his idea has been brought to life.
People always want to know if you have what it takes to pull an idea through from conception to execution. task to convince them that you have all you need is the greatest nightmare of being an entrepreneur. Some of the people whose participation you need to get your idea off the ground include: investors, partners, colleagues, customers, suppliers, etc. - without these people who were on board, your idea at its best and still his idea. What does not become a common idea. Why? Since it takes more than one person (the entrepreneur) to build the business, which ultimately requires the participation of others.
Why on earth would anyone buy into your idea? Providing an answer to this question is, where is your biggest nightmare start as an entrepreneur. Your idea is great, it has the potential to change the world, but that nobody except you is willing to stick your neck out for it? How come all people ever do when you pitch your idea is to listen, nod and do nothing? Since you are not convincing. Allow me to quickly draw the line there is a big difference between sound convincing and actually be convincing . Probing the convincing presentation of the issue as conclusively the question of credibility. In other words, trust. Your credibility is what determines your ability to persuade others, and without that credibility, sell your idea to others may remain impossible.
So how do you develop credibility? credibility in its most basic sense, the ability to inspire confidence or belief. In other words, credibility refers to the ability of entrepreneurs to inspire or to earn the trust and the willingness of others to accept what he or she proposes as true. Credibility basically comes from four sources:
first Who are you (the character, life experience): There is hardly anything we have ever done on Earth that does not always require that we'll get back to basics - life. Life really is the foundation on which every other thing in the world is built. The first source is the credibility of your life. As I have always been known to ask: "What is commendable about your existence?" Believe it or not, in the first place people look to say, if you are capable of something or not your life. They want to know the kind of person you are, the substance of your character, and composition of your life experience. In other words, they want to know what makes you thick as a person. What drives you? What are your values or what you value? You might want to ask: "Why are all you need to determine the authenticity of those?" truth of the matter is this, in essence, business is all about relationships. We do not do business with things or animals, we work with human beings and the essence of every human interaction is trust. It is therefore necessary for you to have a credible life that is worthy of earning the confidence and inspiration of others. Selling your idea of getting the confidence and commitment to others, how else will it be achieved if there is nothing commendable about your life!
second What have you done (track record, past experience, performance or achievements): another source of credibility is your track record. Your track record is generally related to what you have done in the past or your past achievements. In other words, what victory you won? What territory you've won? Sad as it sounds May, people rarely want to give the rogue a chance at anything. People would rather risk their lives with someone with a commendable track record of results and achievements in relation to someone with no track record whatever. the quality of your past achievements to the extent that they are genuine indicators of your ability to make things happen. That is why people often clamor for experience as evidence of one's ability to perform. Thus, in selling your ideas, it is necessary to bring all your past victories at the bear and the impact of the fact that if you were able to achieve victory in the individual projects in the past, it is inevitable to have what it takes to repeat the process again.
third you know (knowledge, skills): As I have always believed and professed, our ability to do so is limited by what we know. So, what I know is another source of credibility. Due to the dynamic nature of life, it's almost impossible to see someone who has experienced almost everything in the past he / she wants to do in the future. Somehow, we still do not have any track record should affect our own souls, and this is where the impact on the experiences of others comes into play. As a result of knowledge and skills acquired from others, we are half as capable as they are in what we have learned from them. You can compensate for what I did with what you can do as a result of what you know. In selling your idea, then, people want to know how you learned about your idea. In other words, how do you know about where you're headed? Since that is not personally been down this road before, how you intend to make it through? Your goal is to show how much you know and learned about what it takes to make your ideas work. the quality of your knowledge about a certain thing or idea is proof that you not only have an idea, you also have a plan and the necessary skills to work.
4th who you know (Network Team, the Association): is the last source of credibility that you know. It is very closely related to what they know, but in his case, rather than knowledge or skills acquired from others, it's more like outsourcing jobs to those more capable than you. Surrounding yourself with people who have other forms of credibility of these is another way of attracting the credibility of your own self too. As the popular saying goes: "Show me your friend and I'll tell you who you really are." People can say that you are capable or not as a result of those people who are always in collaboration s. man in the company of fools who will surely be able to do crazy things, and one in the company of wise, will eventually end up doing wise things. Thus, in selling your ideas as an entrepreneur, try to surround myself with men and women who are more credible than him in certain areas related to making your ideas into reality.
Now over to you dear reader, in what other ways besides these four sources listed above are adopted in developing your credibility as they went about selling their ideas with others?