We continue with the second part of the 30 Days to Start and Running a Business. In the previous part, we passed first 15 days for a start and running business. In that 15 days, we already make one big step forward to create new successful business. Let’s continue with the second half of 30 days to business startup.
Read the first part: 30 Days to Start and Running Business – Part 1: First 15 Days
Day 16: Build your website
Today we cannot imagine the business without the online presence. In this 16th day, you must decide about the type of web site that you will use for your business. Do you want to have a static web site with some information about products and services and contact details, or you want to have a dynamic web site in the form of blogs? You canchoose to them today, or you can hire a technical person will transfer your ideas about the web site the html files.
Here are some resources that you can use for accomplishment of the task today:
- Online Objectives for Marketing Your Business – Primary and secondary objectives for an online presence of your business.
- 10 Advantages of Using Blogs for Your Business – Help in choosing the type of web site that you want to implement for business purpose.
- 10 Blog Topics that You Can Blogging for Your Business – If you choose a blog as your web site, here are 10 blog topics that you can use for business purpose.
Day 17: Connect with most important social media
Today the task is to connect with most important social media that will help to spread out the word about your business. Now you must decide what social media you will use, make profiles on them and customize them.
You can choose different sites that compare popularity of different social media as Compete.com . Another source of quality information about popular social media is Alexa Top 500 Global Sites .
Day 18: Analyze and choose the business locations
Today task that must be accomplished is to find an ideal location where your business will be placed. Before a start searching first you should describe the location that will be ideal for your business and note all desirable criteria that location must comply. There is a difference for location criteria that was based on a type of business. Are customers come to the business or the business distributes the products to customers?
When you become a clear about needed location start searching and choose one. You must avoid these mistakes:
- Choose location because it is close to your home. The home is not important about location. Importance is about customers and all business operating needs.
- Choose location only about price. Location is an important element of your business that can impact on overall business potential energy.
- Choose location only because of you. Without complying desired criteria your location is not good for your business.
Day 19: Make agreement for the location
When you choose the location that will be ideal for your business this day is to contact the owner and make a legal agreement. If the location is a really ideal location for your business try to make long term agreement.
Day 20: Build the team
Who will work in your business? Who will be sales people? What about administrative tasks? Think about the ideal team that will make victory. You can have the best technology, the best products or services, the best marketing activities but without human resources your business will be nothing.
Today make a list of possible people that can work for your business and contact them to make an initial agreement.
Day 21: Talk with everyone about your business
Today start with initial promotion of your business before real startup. Go to your cousins and friends and talk about what you will work and what benefits the customers will have from your business. Talk with every person that you know and meet on the street or some events. The purpose of this day is to introduce your business to all people that you know and can be potential customers.
Day 22: Set up bank account
Today you must decide about bank where you will want to open a bank account. Think about services that you want to have from your bank. Select the best and go to open a business account.
Day 23: Legalize your new business
Now is time to make your business legal. Make a study for national legislation about needed documentation and activities that you must perform to legalize the business. Spend this day to accomplish this task.
Day 24: Make business cards
Business cards are an important promotional weapon for every startup business. Today your task is to make your business cards that will include a business logo, slogan, business contact details and your name and surname.
Day 25: Make promotional materials as brochures and flyers
When you finish with business cards start with initial promotional materials as brochures and flyers. These initial promo materials must introduce your new business to the market or community where it will operate. You must m really impersonal brochures and flyers. If you cannot make hire professional to make them for you.
Day 26: Plan opening day
Today task is to make a plan for the opening day. How much people you can invite? Who will be invited? What will be in the opening program? Answer these questions and make a plan with all tasks that you must have accomplished with the deadlines.
Day 27: Build buzz about your opening day
Today you must start building a buzz about opening day. Use social media that you choose and make profiles in day 17th. Talk with all people about that great day that will change their life’s. If you build great buzz around your business startup you will increase your business potential energy for the future.
Day 28: Make invitation for opening day
Today your task is to make impersonal invitations for opening day of your business. In the previous day, you build a buzz about your business startup that will make people starving to see how their life’s will be changed with your new business.
Day 29: Invite as much as more guest on opening party
You have a plan in which is noted how much people you can officially invite on official business startup. Give them invitations that you make a previous day. If you have more people it is a more probability that you will have more customers from that guests on opening day.
Day 30: Start selling
Now when everything was finished. Your business is started and running the most important thing in next months or years is selling. Sell, Sell and Sell.
That’s it! This is 30 days that is needed to start and running business.
Notes: Some days can be accomplished in one day, but some cannot be accomplished in one day. This depends on a business type as we mention earlier. However, if there is needing an additional day for some tasks to be accomplished better, give an additional day don’t limit yourself with one day.
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