Volume 1 | 87 subscribers | 7 different countries | 24 January 2005 Welcome to the 87 people who subscribed to 'Up-Starts' over the past month!
Contents
Part 1 - Welcome! Part 2 - Special Offers Part 3 - Business Quote of the Month Part 4 - Feature Article - Create a business you love! Part 5 - About the 'Up-Starts' Newsletter
Part 1 - Welcome! Welcome to the very first edition of the 'Up-Starts' Newsletter!
'Up-Starts' has been created to help serve and support the entrepreneurially minded.
My goal for this newsletter is really simple. To help you create wealth through your business endeavours. And by wealth I not only mean financial wealth but also the personal and spiritual wealth you create when you operate a business that serves all stakeholders; shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers as well as the broader community.
The newsletter has three distinct target audiences;
1. Small business owners. 2. People looking to set up their own small business. 3. People looking to create entrepreneurial ideas.
Each audience has it's own set of challenges in reaching it's business aspirations. In the coming months I hope to provide you with lots of powerful ideas that will help you grow your business beyond anything you could have imagined. I want to help your business thrive. If I can achieve this, I know that my business will thrive as well.
As this is the first edition, I welcome any feedback that you may have as well as anything you would like to feature in coming editions. I would particularly love to hear of your own personal business stories and triumphs.
Hopefully over time with your assistance, readership and recommendation, I will be able to grow this newsletter into something very special indeed.
Take a chance 2day!
Damien Senn Life & Business Coach
I am offering all my Up-Starts newsletter subscribers the opportunity to develop critical action steps for their business for 2005 through a complimentary one hour coaching session. If you are serious about moving your business forward, then please get in touch. The sessions are very limited so it will be a matter of first in first served.
To register for your session please click here.
Part 3 - Business Quote of the Month
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson (IBM founder)
Part 4 - Featured Article - Create a business you love!
So you have entrepreneurial aspirations, but you’re stuck in a job working for someone else. You wake up, commute to work, work hard, pay your bills and then come home exhausted. You repeat the pattern for another four days, becoming increasingly tired as the week progresses. By the time Friday night comes around you are absolutely shattered requiring every second of your weekend just to recover! And just as you start to feel as if you have your life back, your alarm clock goes off on Monday morning, you drag your feet out of bed and you repeat the cycle. Does this scenario sound all too familiar? Is this the way you want to spend the rest of your working life?
Controlling your thoughts
So how do you start to break this monotonous existence? You do so with a single thought. It is said that each one of us has 60,000 thoughts a day, 55,000 of which were exactly the same thoughts as we had yesterday. So I am going to place a simple thought in your mind right now.
“ You have the potential to create a profitable business that you are truly passionate about, that fulfils you creatively and that delivers a lot of good in the world. “
If that message resonates with you, you may like to re-read it and hold the thought in your mind for a second time. Really try and experience the meaning in this message. Not just intellectually but emotionally as well. You may also like re-think this thought again tomorrow. And if it feels good tomorrow, you may like to add it to your habitual thoughts.
Give your new thought some support
Once you have held the thought of running your own business in your own mind and you are comfortable with it, you need to start expanding the dynamics of the thought. Ask yourself the following questions
- What sort
of business would you like to run?
- Would it be a full time business or just a part time one?
- What would you call it?
- How much time would you like to devote to it?
- Who would be your target market?
- Who can you get involved to help you get it started?
Take some action
Once you have a few answers for the questions above, you’ve got to take some action straight away! Start off small. Get some business cards printed up (vistaprint.co.uk will give you 250 colour business cards for free!) and you may also like to register a web site domain name (you can register web names from as little as £2.59 per year through 123-reg.com). Once you’ve got the ball rolling you can start thinking about the bigger action steps that you will need to take.
Seek out other business people
Take a look at your social network. If all your friends and family are employees, chance are any conversations about work will be about the 9-5 grind. If this is the case, start adding a few small business people to your social network. Buy them lunch, ask them questions about how they started out in business. I am sure that you will find plenty of inspiration as well as some words of advice about how to run a business. You may also like to consider joining up with groups so you can network with like minded individuals (Toastmasters is excellent start and for online Networking check out ecademy.com)
The most important consideration
One of the most important things to consider when setting up a business is to choose a business that you are passionate about. There are so many different ways you can make money so you might as well do something that excites you.
Part 5 - About the 'Up-Starts' Newsletter
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