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What If? and Why Not? : How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams.
Title:
What If? and Why Not? : How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams.
Author:
Groover, Jen.
ISBN:
9781935618201
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (179 pages)
Contents:
Praise -- Title Page -- Introduction -- 1 - "What if I have a great idea but don't know how to turn it into a business?" -- Ideas Are Cheap, but Great Ideas Are Priceless -- Fear Factor Isn't Just an Old Reality Show -- Lone Entrepreneur Syndrome -- How to Find Great Partners -- "What If?" and "Why Not? " Questions -- 2 - "What if everyone tells me I can't do it?" -- When They Call You Crazy, It May Be a Reason to Celebrate -- Agile Enough to Dodge the Fire Hose -- Surround Yourself with Other Musicians -- 3 - "What if I'm terrified of losing my job security?" -- Real Job Security -- 4 - "What if someone steals my idea?" -- Reason 1: You Cannot Take the Visionary Out of the Vision -- Reason 2: No Competitor Will Have the Same People You Do -- Reason 3: Everyone Thinks His or Her Own Ideas Are Better at First -- Reason 4 : Very Few Entrepreneurs Really Want to Create Something New -- Reason 5: There Is Room for Competitors in Any Market -- Prudent or Paranoid? -- 5 - "What if I don't have the money to start my company?" -- The Trouble with Venture Capital -- The Friends and Family Plan -- Entrepreneurs Create Money -- 6 - "What if I don't know anything about the industry I want to be in? " -- Don't Be Intimidated -- Cultivate Your Ignorance -- Become an Information Junkie -- Think Like a Kid -- The Mindful Entrepreneur -- I'll Stop Procrastinating Tomorrow -- 7 - "What if I don't know anything about branding and marketing? " -- What Is a Brand? -- You Can Do Branding and Marketing -- Resurrecting Brands -- Channel Surfing -- Be Your Own Publicist -- Web: Not for the Do-It-Yourselfer -- Authenticity Is Everything -- Make the Personal Connection -- Know Your Core Values -- You Are Your Brand -- 8 - "What if I'm terrified of selling and don't think I'm good at it?" -- Overcoming Sales Phobia -- It Has to Be You -- Start Slowly.

The Sale Is Just the Beginning -- What if You're a Natural Salesperson? -- What if People Will Actually Welcome You When You Call? -- Why Not Ultimately Outsource Your Sales? -- Why Not Build a Brand That Does 90 Percent of the Selling for You? -- 9 - "What if the business isn't immediately profitable?" -- Deficits Equal Motivation -- Give Your Business Enough Oxygen -- Control Your Costs -- Good Debt, Bad Debt -- Keep It Simple: Do It Yourself -- 10 - "What if I fail? " -- Failure Isn't Personal -- The Wrong Question -- Transforming Your Mind -- Stay in Touch! -- Jen Groover -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Starting your own business is hard. But the biggest obstacles often have less to do with time and money, and more to do with fear and doubt. In What If? and Why Not? serial entrepreneur and small business advocate Jen Groover—creator of the Butler Bag and creator and host of Launcher's Café, an online community for entrepreneurs—shows you how to transform your fears into action by rethinking the negative questions that can lead to failure before you even get started. Being an entrepreneur, Groover says, isn't just about selling a product. It's about personal growth—about taking your vision and bringing it to fruition, and about always pushing yourself to take that vision further. What gets in your way isn't the money you don't have, or what you don't know about the industry you want to get into—it's believing you can't do it, that you don't have the power or the resources you need to make your dream into a reality. Groover walks you step by step through ten negative “What If?" questions—What if I don't know what I'm doing? What if I don't have the money? What if I fail?—and how to turn them around by asking yourself: What if I can learn? What if I don't need much money? What if I succeed? She also asks “What Not?": Why not find a mentor or take a class? Why not ask for investors? Why not try? With dozens of personal stories from successful entrepreneurs in areas as diverse as dog walking and handbag-invention, plus practical advice for every step of your journey, What If? and Why Not? is the most complete guide available to help you you start the business of your dreams.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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