Want To Know How To Make Money Fast? Whoa! Slow Down

Small Business Trends interviewed four entrepreneurs about startups and how best to get started.  No where in the article did they mention how to make money fast, because these entrepreneurs usually learned the hard way…

This successful group came up with some rules for a business’s first 3 years of existence:

• Be Particular - wasting your time and/or money on expenses, projects or employees you don’t need will only set you back.  So now’s the time to be picky.

• Act Like A Little Company - starting off, you want to connect with clients, so don’t scare them off with quirky marketing talk and don’t fuss over a fancy website right now.   Act like a human being and you’ll attract other human beings who want to do business.

• Make Every Cent Count - you may have a healthy budget to get started, but you never know how long it will take to start making money, so watch what you spend it on.  You may find that you become agile at doing big and little jobs within your business, so while you’re counting every cent, save as much as possible and DIY.

Perhaps you won’t make money fast right away so take it slow and focus on building a healthy business.  You’ll more readily see a good ROI in due time.