The First Real Steps!

By Chris Smith

Among the flood of how-to business books, this book offers the first real steps needed before starting down the road to building a small business. In this book there are methods on how to conduct basic research, finding practical business ideas and creating a simple and realistic business plan. This book is for anybody who wants to keep things simple, basic and effective so that they can focus on taking care of the critical items and not spending huge amounts of time reading "how-to" books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Smith
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463940921

Chris Smith

Dr Chris Smith is a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge as well as a microbiologist working at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Dave Ansell is the Naked Scientists' Kitchen Science specialist who now works full time promoting the public understanding of science.

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Chapter One

Starting at the beginning

Starting at the beginning

You do not need a business degree to start, own and successfully operate a small business. You do not need to be a super-smart business Guru or have some secret or magical business-sense or even an exotic system. The truth is that almost anybody can start and operate a business.

If you are for the most part organized and willing to do some work all you really need is some simple information to get moving in the right direction.

The fact is, every single day all over the world ordinary people start and successfully operate businesses!

In other words, do not let the lack of a professional degree or a stellar I.Q. prevent you from attaining your goals and starting your own business. Much of this is basic common-sense and almost anybody can do it.

Business at its core is very simple; Business is nothing more than an exchange of one thing of value for another. In our current system, it is usually selling a product or a service for money (yes it really is that