10 Rules to Become A Successful Entrepreneur
Marshall Williams
President at Williams and Parker Holdings, Officer at Fetch A House Properties, Officer at Lion Investment Group, Angel Investor, Real Estate Investor
As an entrepreneur you are thirsty to become successful entrepreneur. Sometimes the process will be slow, but sometimes it can be really quickly.
I know that you want to become successful as quickly as possible, but there are two different and in the same time important questions for you:
How can I become successful entrepreneur?
How can I become successful entrepreneur as quickly as possible?
Before we start with the rules of success for you as an entrepreneur, as a first ask yourself one important question: What the success mean for me?
Different entrepreneurs have a different definition for their own success. Because of that we can’t make clear road map that can show us the right way that lead to the success. But, we can draw the basic rules that if you follow you can find your own success.
Let’s start with these rules of success for entrepreneurs.
Rule #1: Define your vision.
Your vision is something that will clearly define what is the success for you as an entrepreneur. You need to have a vision if you want to become successful. How you can expect to become successful entrepreneur if you don’t know what is the success for you.
Rule #2: Don’t do what you don’t like doing.
As an entrepreneur you need to like what you are doing in your business. Sometimes that will not be the same as you plan that will be. You need to be passionate about your business because the passion is one of the most important forces that will force you to the success.
Rule #3: Build strong community around your business.
The important thing about your business success is that you’l need people. You need customers. You need employees. You need persons with which you will talk and communicate. You need to start building your community as soon as possible.
Rule #4: Communicate with your community.
You don’t need to build community only to sell them. You need community with which you will communicate and in some cases build partner relationships. They have very big power to make your business a successful business.
Rule #5: Listen to your community.
You need to listen to your community and in the same time to learn from them. This knowledge that you will collect from listening is important to be used in your business through products and services that will satisfy the needs of your community.
Rule #6: Use mistakes as an improvement tool.
If you made a mistake and fail in something that you are doing, it doesn’t mean that you will not become a successful entrepreneur. You will become unsuccessful only if you don’t try something, made a mistake, learn from that mistake, and don’t improve yourself based on that mistakes. You need to know that mistakes can improve you and your business.
Rule #7: Change.
If you don’t want to change your business, your market will change and will leave you isolated. It’s better to become the leader than the follower. If you don’t have a clear path to become successful, you will need different manoeuvres. You need a change.
Rule #8: Find the ways to go beyond the limits.
If you are the person who doesn’t think about the limits you’l be reach everything that you want. If you see limits in everything around you instead of opportunities, you need to change your mindset and start to look beyond the limits.
Rule #9: Differentiate yourself.
You don’t need to look at what everyone else is doing. That’s not something that will make you successful. But, you will need to differentiate yourself and your business from everyone else. How do you differentiate yourself from your competition?
Rule #10: Celebrate and reward.
Your journey to become successful entrepreneur will not be a straight line. You will have many targets between where you are now and where you want to be in the future. If you want your journey to continue with success you will need to celebrate and reward yourself and your team for all accomplished targets.
About The Author:
Dragan Sutevski is a founder and CEO of Sutevski Consulting, creating small business excellence through innovative thinking and acting. You can find his products on Insider's Page. Or contact him about consulting services at info at sutevski dot mk.
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Product architect. Artist. International best-selling author. I help build stuff that makes people’s jobs better. I learn every day how to improve something. It’s always about learning.
2 年Hey?Marshall, thanks for sharing!