Business Jump School: Skills…no, DRILLS You Must Master Before Starting a Business
Business Jump School is a training program that’s been incorporated into my book that will be available in January 2011. It’s the understanding that entrepreneurs – whether starting their first business or their twenty-first – need a certain skill set to successfully navigate the world of business. After all, it’s a jungle out there! Too many entrepreneurs are starting businesses unprepared.
This book is about the skills you need to personally possess in order to succeed as an entrepreneur. It’s about who you need to be AND what you need to do in order to succeed.
These drills will allow you to become the person you need to be and actually start a business BEFORE you start your business. To increase your odds of success, you MUST have some business experience prior to starting your business. As you go through the book, you may say to yourself, “I could outsource that. I don’t need to know that.” You do so at your own peril. Well, not your own peril, but certainly the peril of your young business.
Frankly, you need to know this stuff! Every successful entrepreneur either mastered this information before starting the business or they learned it the hard way: while they were trying to grow their business. But learning the “basics” while dealing with the chaos, uncertainty, disappointment and craziness of the early days is not the best way to do it.
The skills in this book need to be subconscious and instinctive when in the “heat of the battle”. You’ll have more many more things to think about. Make no mistake about it, these skills are needed throughout the life of your business; not just at the beginning. You need to have these skills down cold when you are developing relationships with potential clients, when the money gets tight and when you’ve landed a “big fish”.
Let’s face it: business is tough! There is no other way around it.
This book will keep you ready for whatever comes your way and allow you to experience the exhilaration of taking the leap! We’ll touch on the two types of skills that will be learned in a future post. We’ll address the the so-called “hard skills” as well as the “soft skills”.
P.S. Go to www.businessjumpschool.com/book to find out how to get a free copy of the book.
Until next time…Go Boldly!
Dino Herbert
“Passionate about helping people reach their entrepreneurial potential”