4. Are you a “water-cooler person” at heart? When you become a business owner, your days of taking a long lunch or chatting with guys around water cooler are over. Can you make transition from “worker bee” to boss? It can be lonely.

On your own, you’ll be making countless decisions every day -- from mundane to critical. And, you alone must shoulder daily ups and downs that come with running a business. However, it can also have tremendous rewards in that you are building something from scratch. So, if you believe you can weather isolation and roll with punches, you might be a good candidate for owning your own business.

5. Can you create an organized environment? Where you work is certainly important. You’ll need an acceptable work space and right office tools in order to be creative and successful. Even more important, however, is how you work.

For example, you can have an incredible sales presentation with latest technology that will wow clients, but if you’re constantly late for meetings and lose important documents, you’ll probably also lose business. Ask yourself if you can flourish in an environment where creativity and operational systems are equally important? Many entrepreneurs make mistake of thinking company will simply “run itself” if they just come up with great ideas and business leads. They pay scant attention to details of building a business. Too often this is a recipe for failure.

To be a success, you must combine your fantastic ideas and business tools with solid planning and organization.

Success for any new business is never guaranteed. There are too many variables, and many factors will be totally out of your control. But you can avoid making a costly mistake by asking yourself, honestly -- before you take plunge: Do I have what it takes to run a business? The answer should tell you if new “American Dream” is right fit for you.

#3 The Ultimate Marketer using all these simple businesses tactics:

A small girl was selling lemonade for 30c and she was talk of neighborhood. She was selling more and charging more, how could that be? Here were her simple businesses tactics.

Her notice did not just say Lemonade 30c. It said “Freshly Squeezed Lemonade, Made Just For You”

She greeted all her customers personally. She took obvious pride in her wares and stand. Her stand was simply and nicely decorated and spotlessly clean.

However she did not stop here. She set up her stand next door to most popular Hot Dog/snack stand. This vender was well known throughout neighborhood for his great food and service. He had a great location near many offices on a busy street and he was not just seasonal he was there all year round so everybody knew him. He was perfect compliment to little girl’s lemonade stand. Plus he was a friendly fellow and always recommended his customers to have some delicious lemonade with their lunch/snacks. Of course she also returned favor.

Now we can all learn from simple businesses tactics that made this small entrepreneur talk of town. To recap:

She had market (thirsty people) The product: Great tasting lemonade She improved her ad copy, her notice was better than her competitors. She treated all her customers well, going out of her way to make them feel comfortable. Added value. Happy customers=repeat customers, good service = word of mouth marketing, a very powerful form of promotion. A clean, attractive and professional stand attracted more customers. Her strong link with a large popular seller helped her to sell more. Because of all these factors and added value of customer service she could charge premium price.

All these simple business tactics can be applied to your business and not only help you get ahead of competition but make more money with less fuss. No need for, time consuming think tanks, and board meetings. These simple principles are right under our noses, we just have to apply them. Think with simple business tactics of a child and your business will run more smoothly, be more efficient, and ultimately make you more money.

Article written by Cathy Qazalbash (Cathy Q) Publisher of the A-Y-B newsletter And A1-Newsletter Cathy is a successful Freelance writer, specializing in Ghostwriting, Web content, Copywriting and promotional articles

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