Wanting to Start My Own Business - Ideas???

I was being overly-literal to press home a point. If I was on the receiving end of a comment like that I'd see it the same way. But a lot of people would do well to listen to what she says, which if people start to actual believe all she is doing is trolling and I'm sure there are few people with axes to grind willing to step in and add their weight to that suggestion, they won't take on-board something that would help them in the long run.

There's plenty of people where the sentiments she did share should be listened for their own benefit. It was a case of mistaken identity in this case.

Back on the theme of this thread, it is surprisingly hard to find the right thing to start your business, unless you already have a desire to build something that's more than just about making money but a brand and name for yourself as a real expert and authority in something. After years, I'm really only really getting clarity on the right to use my skills and the right products and services to sell. It's not as easy as it seems.

And on this place it's most the same old services attempting to be sold in a very crowded market that is increasing sophisticated and where the competition much stronger than many of the people here.

If I were you I'd become a business development consultant. That is, finding great joint ventures, jv's, partnerships, sponsors for business, and setting them up on their behalf. This is what lean start ups do in the tech-world to form mutually-beneficially relations that sky rocket their growth.

I need people like that myself like. I'd much rather hire a person to try to set up 10 ongoing alliances with big, complementary with major resources, lists and databases to tap into for massive growth, from 100 calls then hire someone to make a hundred straight sales calls.

Offer that to people looking for sales people, who are everywhere, and many people would be interested in someone who can help them find, approach, negotiate and execute a good partnership, but may not have considered it.

It's a growth hacking strategy, like the influencer strategy in social media, that makes perfect sense, gets way more exposure than the 1 to 1 selling or ppc advertising, that you would think would be the norm, but most still do things the other way, do the familiar. If you could specialize in helping people get exceptional growth through business development, and had a few successful case studies behind you in an area that is understocked with competition but something businesses owners would bite your hand of if you could help them achieve that.


Either way, I'd be thinking along the lines of what a potential customer would want most, and ways to come up with a way to get them that based on the skills you have.

Little niche services that make you a big fish in a small pond, but bring far more results than just the same standard marketing services everyone else is offering that do little for the business.

If you could become renowned for helping companies see spectacular growth and highly profitable partnerships by putting your existing skills to use in that way, which is as achievable as it is getting the customers you get now with the right proposition, you would have people falling over themselves do business with you.

That's what I'd do anyway. Very profitable with the right companies who deal in big numbers.