| Avenue Girl, over at the Warrior Forum, asked a | | | | method? Well, by learning it all on your own and |
| very good question the other day. She asked | | | | having to go through the growing pains of figuring |
| new people if they would rather learn how to build | | | | out what works and what doesn't, IF you reach |
| a business on their own or would they rather be | | | | the point where you HAVE made it...you will |
| able to buy a business in a box that was all set | | | | actually KNOW what you are doing. And that is |
| for them to make money with. The answers | | | | VERY important when running a business, because |
| actually surprised me. Anyway, I'm going to share | | | | things happen that, if you are not prepared to |
| a shocking confession and then dive a little deeper | | | | handle, can bury you. On the downside, doing it all |
| into the pros and cons of each method. I think | | | | by yourself, there is always a greater chance of |
| you will find this quite interesting. | | | | failure simply because not everybody can learn |
| First of all, let's start out with the shocking | | | | how to run a business. |
| confession. Even though I learned everything from | | | | Now, if you take the business in a box route, |
| the ground floor up, and suffered a long time | | | | especially if it's an existing business that has |
| before making it, if I could start all over again, I'd | | | | proven to generate money, you don't have to |
| find myself an established business that was for | | | | worry so much about failure. There is no learning |
| sale and buy it. I would then hire people to run it | | | | curve. You just run it. Now, what if you have NO |
| and go off and live in my recording studio | | | | business smarts? Well, that becomes a problem if |
| cranking out hit tunes. But why? | | | | something unforeseen happens such as a new |
| Well, the answer is simple. If the end goal is to | | | | government regulation. If you don't know how to |
| provide for my family, and I can do this without | | | | make the changes you need to make, you're |
| the learning curve and without all the suffering, | | | | sunk. Sure, you can hire people to run your |
| why not take the easy route? There is no shame | | | | business. But what if you can't afford to at the |
| in admitting that you prefer not to have to kill | | | | beginning? Remember, buying an existing business |
| yourself to make a living. So if you can find | | | | takes money and that sometimes doesn't leave a |
| something that you can just slap your name on | | | | lot for administration. |
| and be done with it...why not take the | | | | So as you can see, there are pros and cons to |
| opportunity? The end result, either way, is the | | | | each. There is no perfect world no matter what |
| same...You make money. | | | | you decide to do. Ultimately, it comes down to |
| Okay, so what are the pros and cons of each | | | | what YOU are more comfortable with. |