Don’t Get Bullied By Your Own Ideas!
September 29, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
Quite an interesting title, isn’t it? But this is the scenario today where thousands of individuals raise money for their businesses only to get bullied by their very own investors at the end because just that, idea didn’t work but I can understand you perfectly well, as an entrepreneur there are lots of ups and downs till you reach your final destination. A funded start up is always demanding from its deepest core since the time of inception to the growing process and the final delivery process, as much as investors are looking for profits from the venture, you try to achieve to the fullest that is possible from your end but what if the idea itself doesn’t work. This may happen because there was no proper marketing mix, probably the idea was out dated, or may be your customers were finding it costly, there can be N number of reasons you can state for your failure.
Some people think that if they rake in good number of investors in their company either from joint venture or selling the stakes in the companies, it is good sign of success. Then I think, they are highly mistaken for the fact, that most of take over happen because company is facing turbulent times, now there are again 2 possibilities, investor may come in due to his personal interest or simply want to help the company but the profit motive always remains. A person’s hard earned money is always the biggest risk individuals take while investing in risky businesses especially when it has no profits or shown downward spiral.
Sometimes, when you get investments coming to your company, you are easily excited about getting money and starting with few more ventures but you really miss to know, that it can really become hard for you in the future as most of the times even when its your idea of a particular business or marketing tactics to be used for product, there are investors who make major decisions of the company and that really bites your nerves. You have to do as per their wish only because they are the investors! Now that may or may not get consumed by many individuals, though you can always proceed towards achieving your goals tactfully even when they are against your decisions.

I had been attending so many conferences and workshops about entrepreneurship, take over, joint ventures and many more, the end point that they discussed was are investors really be allowed to take company decisions when they really don’t know anything of the process they have invested in, let some things be left to the individuals who are actually experts in it. The idea here is not to get bullied by your own people may it be your investors, your colleagues, your partners. If you are wrong, they can surely pin point anything. My advice to you is, use your ideas in a more receptive manner and make them understand if they don’t agree with you. Sometimes even the majority decision taken in a company fails due to improper project report or lack of judgment matter or due to peer pressure – juniors follow their seniors blindly without thinking logically.

An idea comes to a person only when he can think rationally, logically and practically. Although it fails sometimes but not always as, “Failures are stepping stone to success”, no one gets success without facing the failure and as time moves on you tend to learn by your own mistakes, you made as a young entrepreneur. Experience is all it wants, make proper study reports, presentations, market research, individual customer data and company financial data of a company – after analyzing all of these you can proceed ahead to fetch in investors and this will make sure that no investors ever bullies or surround you next time. Prepare yourself for all types of possible questions, give them the answers in a very quiet and dignified manner and you will never miss to win their hearts!
Are You Looking To Sell Your Online Business?
Today online businesses are selling like hot dogs, who doesn’t want to invest money in a money making machine which can manifold their income 3 fold in just one month? For some it may be real astonishment in the world of internet communication but internet businesses are the jewels and diamonds of your watch, that you ought to wear it when you leave your house next time to make money. You must be well knowing about the online business stores people are setting up to sell easy and earn easy, done with that lets come and discuss a few more things that will create an ever lasting fresh commitment to making money online just by sitting back at home. Even if you have the smallest of business, you can set up an online store and with google adsense on your site, nothing can stop you from making a good deal of money from your site.
Some people often have this confusion that only big companies can be sold and bought, I want to break upon that mind set of people and tell them to move on, forget those century old thoughts on business tactics, its time to move on and discover the real side on money making. If you have sharp business ideas than nothing can stop you from using that sharpness to tear upon your investor’s wallet, you can earn big money with big ideas even if it means you having a small online business store. In fact, if you research you would well know how small businesses are raking in good amount of money compared to bigger business which gets sold for less money and letting go off those hard efforts which nearly consumed your time, energy and resources. Smaller business may sound smaller but they can become real big with simplest of logics put in.
If you feel that you got to have real big money, influential people and lots of resources to sell your business, than I should warn you to stop that nightmarish thought. In my career, I have seen so many examples, even the smallest of the small business units have racked in good money if sold with proper reasoning and ability to conquer the thoughts of negation, creating a good positive vibes in your business can really do wonders not just for you but even beneficial to a great extent. You might have noticed and it always happens that for bigger companies buying a small business is no big deal, it can be bought in through their one day’s earnings, the idea is not this but to bring in a business of your level and than producing good worth out of it. Although buying or selling small companies might sound like a no big deal and it hardly makes any difference to the balance sheets of bigger multinational companies – they have their own importance, with the amount of money which we put to run those smaller companies might be nothing but their income might be something to you and those earnings one day can turn in to real big money and it will surely make a bigger difference in your balance sheets.
There are lots of misconceptions amongst people having small business, they think why a bigger company would buy their small business unit but there are number of good reasons why they might want to buy your company, some of them I have stated below:
- The bigger company might want to learn the technology you are using in your production system or want to learn some new method to be executed in their own business or just to grow their investments.
- They might want to hire the services the small company has to offer, the company may be wanting to learn which they lack in, suppose for example a small time company is good at affiliate marketing, they might want to join them to learn their affiliate marketing programs or hire the affiliate marketing services.
- In new business set ups, people always want to check and test if it is really going to work well with their business units.
- Big companies are always eyed and also face serious competition from other competitors as well, so while they acquire some small company, they can quietly launch their new product.
- Some companies, however big they maybe, they takeover small companies to increase their mailing list and get an impressive listing at Wall Street.
Other than the ones I stated above, there are many obvious reasons as to why the bigger companies might want to invest in small units. The common and the most obvious being good money involved in the small business, after proper analyses they may have found it to be a profitable unit. There have been so many conferences and workshops I attended to and especially the students who are pursuing business studies are taught the very rule of a business to make profits and be a go-getter. There are few of the things that might help you to prepare for a sale even if you haven’t joined a business school.

- Running a company is no easy task; make sure you have got everything ready before you actually market your company. Don’t let company be dependent on you; your company should be working even without your presence.
- Don’t be an enemy to your competitors, make friends with them you might never know when they might be useful to you and the other reason being that your competitors are the ones who are most likely to be your first buyers. Play a good role in being friendly and at the same time being professional.
- Know the people of the company; your company is working with even if that person is not at your managerial level. Some people even without your knowledge would be your potential buyers so don’t miss the opportunity.
- Even if you have ups and downs in business, don’t ever make the mistake of complaining in public that might send wrong signal to the people who are going to buy your company product.
- Always be proud of the work that you are doing, may it be smallest of targets your company has achieved, show your happiness to buyers, competitors, your shareholders, investors – these may sound like a welcoming sign for further endeavors with other companies, your buyers and your investors.
Selling is very important to grow your company, its not a difficult task but requires lots of planning and understanding your customer. Here are some of the things that you can assure your investors, who are interested in your company:

- Running a company needs patience but if you really want some huge gains in the business, you got to find some aggressive buyers. You may find them out through brokers, or your affiliates.
- After finding them out, get in touch with them, talk the deals and see how much money they can pay you for your company.
- You can take advice from your acquirers, talk to them if they have any queries, talk about the profits they had be making with your business and tell them for how much they are planning to close the deal.
There should have been loads of experiences in your life as an entrepreneur, sometimes even the worthiest of business units don’t get the worthy amount on its sale but you have to treat them as your experiences and as time moves on you will learn varied tactics to get a good amount for the sale of business units, the above tips are surely going to help you get a good buyer and a good bargain amount.
Is Blogging A Blessing To Your Business?
Online business is one of the best business these days and gradually all the business houses are converting into the online business. There are lots of shortcomings of the physical business that are overcome by the online business. The physical business are quite time consuming and also they are quite boring as you have to wait for the people for the communication and making business.
These are simple reasons which re more of the key factors for the online business. Advertisement is also the dominative factor these days. Without advertise, the global effect can never be created. There are so many companies who have a huge budget of advertisings in their total overall budget as they are not counted as the expenditure; they are the investments to sell the product. So, even if you go online, there are bright chances that you need to having proper advertisements and these advertisements can be the Blogs. Blogs are the most successful weapons on the internet for the business purposes.
Let’s check the necessity of the Blogs for the business growth.
Blogs are the best informative and invitees for the advertisement purposes, but still there are so many features that should be counted as important factors while going online for your business.
Blogging can be impressive for the Search Engine rakings
Blogging has a great impact on the search engines and if the business blogs are enriched with some of the fresh and more important details of the business, the search engines also are going to earn the attention and surfing of the particular business related queries. So, the engine will definitely give an upward stuff to the rankings of your business blog and the blog of yours can become one of the toppers in the engines and you can also remunerate some good amount by these rankings.
So, select the engine for the Blogging and launching for your website and put an informative and fresh content that can reveal all the facts and figures of not only your business but also of the industry of yours.
Blogging can be the best communicating media
You can never have the attention of millions of viewers if you are not online. But, you can definitely have the attention and approach of the people who by coming online. Online tool can give you a larger platform for the business opportunities and also it can be benefitted to you for the business approaches.
The readers on the Bloggers can ask you the queries and also they can approach directly to you. These can definitely increase the business opportunities and also the expansion can be done easily. There are also some of the people who just surf and read the Blogs for their knowledge, and if your Blog attracts them, they can be the prospective buyers of your business. So, Blogging can be the key factor for the widening of their wings.
Blogging can be the best platform for the new launching
Any of the product you are launching in your business can be delivered more attention by the Blogs as you can’t express all the good features in the short advertisements, but if you have a Blog of your own, you can invite the people to your website and by the media of Blog you can pass on the entire technical data and plus points of the products in detail. So, the Blogs can be the best selling agents of your products.
Blogging can create a community
Entire community can be created via Blogging and also they can be persuaded with the latest contents and the news of the industries to make them aware of the best possible ways. The entire community can be increased by the satisfaction of the existing attendees.
If you have the Blog power with you, you can have the mass of people with you. You can create the best motivating power with the help of sharing all the facts and figures.
Blogging can be a kick-start
Blogging can be your kick-start to the business and it can be the most powerful weapon to increase the remuneration and also to make an improved version for the business of yours.
So, have a kick-start to the business and make your business more powerful with the tonic of Blogging online.











