Start Small & Grow Big

By Armand Sylvain

It’s step by step roadmap on how to migrate from employee to successful business builder. It teaches how you can start a business with a little capital and achieve financial success. The little money you are getting right now can turn you to a multi-millionaire. It’s just for you to know how to make it happen.

There is no better way for your money to work for you than investing it. One of the best ways of investing and creating wealth is to create your own business. Though being your “own boss” doesn’t guarantee your financial success, if it does many business owners would have been successful and wealthy. Having your own business is just a starting point of creating wealth. But managing it successfully is what leads to financial success.

The reason I wrote this book is to help creating business with small capital and turn it to money making machine.
I know that there are many frustrated and unhappy employees that are tired of their present job and want to start their own business but they are afraid to start because of lack of capital. They think that they need big capital before starting. That is an illusion. Added to that, they don’t know where to start from. Let me tell you right away: You have better chance to grow your business when you start it small if you invest in a business that is right for you. So on chapter II of this book, you will learn how to identify the right business that will give you more success in life.

There are also many salary earners that want to start their own business but they are afraid of failing. They don’t know what the future holds and live in the incertitude. That mental monster is what keeps many hostages as salary earners. I believe in you as I also know that you have the potentials to succeed as business person if that’s your heart desire. In chapter V of the book, you will learn how to get rid of that mental monster to achieve your dreams.

As a first-time business owner. You will need to compete with millions others to be able to stand out and survive. How to make your products or services different from others in the way to satisfy and penetrate your target market is revealed in chapter VII of this book.

No matter how good or unique your products or services could be, your business can’t grow if you don’t sell on daily basis. But you can’t sell considerably if you are not known. How to attract customers and generate constant income is one of the hardest tasks in managing a business. This is discussed in chapter VIII of this book.

There are much more to learn from this book. The reason I wrote this book is to make the transition easy for any salary earner that aspires to become a business builder. All you need to know to achieve financial success while starting a business with a little capital is described in this book. That success won’t come overnight. Instead, it will come in small increments over time as you learn to adopt, implement and refine the recommendations I share in this book.
If you are already in business for yourself, but things are not going as well as you had hoped for and need some assistance to take your business to higher level, then this book is also for you. It will walk you through the complete process of running your business, from the point it is now to its growth with easy and understanding step-by-step instructions.

To your success

Armand SYLVAIN

• Language: English
• Publisher: Armand Sylvain
• Release date: Nov 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005576561

Armand Sylvain

I’m author, business consultant, personal development coach, numerologist and business builder.HOW DO I GET THERE? BELOW IS MY LIFE STORYTwo (02) years after been graduated with master in accounting, I was so fortunate to get a job in a bank. After getting the job, I thought that everything would be rosy and that all my dreams would be fulfilled. At a point, I said to myself that “money would never be my problem again”. I was so young and immature at that point. I didn’t know that every day and every situation has and brings its own problems.Though money wasn’t really my problem then, but deep in me, I knew that I wanted to do something else for myself. As days were passing by, the pressure of starting my own business intensified. At the end after working for 6 years in that bank, I started my own micro-finance bank at age of 28. That was my first step into the world of business.After 04 years of operation, my company crashed. After that I learned one of the biggest lessons in business world: “Starting a business with a big capital doesn’t guarantee its success”. In fact, I started the company with a capital up to $40,000. But I terribly failed despite all my experience in the banking system.After that failure I started exploring ways to figure out what went wrong. I knew that lack of money was not really the cause. To get answers to my questions, I started studying some esoteric sciences like numerology and astrology.While I was studying those esoteric sciences and fighting to get myself back from that failure, surprisingly, I got a new job as Personal Assistant to the First Lady of my country 3 years after my first business collapsed.In that job also, money was not really my problem but I wasn’t happy enjoying my work. The job was not giving me joy. I felt that the job wasn’t right for me. I felt that it was not the place I should real be. Having some knowledge in numerology and astrology then, helped me understand that only jobs or businesses that are aligned with my life purpose can really help having a fulfilled life. From that moment I started identifying my life purpose, my true passion and business that would fit me best while of course doing the Personal Assistance Job.At my great surprise, I discovered that “helping people solving their problems to achieve their life’s goals and be happy” aligns perfectly well with my life purpose. To be sure, I started using my numerological skills after being accredited, to help people around me solving their marital problems, find love, get married, get jobs, etc......... Initially I did all these free of charge. More I helped people around me solve their life’s problems, happier I felt. That’s how my career as numerologist and personal development coach started as part-time while I was doing my job of Personal Assistant.After stepping down from power, I dropped my job and started giving full time to my numerological career which has been giving me more joy, happiness and pleasure.Three (03) years later, I created another company called SYLARM BUSINESS & SERVICES while continuing with my numerological career. To not allow my past mistake repeats itself, I decided to learn more about my new business. At that point, I’ve gone to all business seminars I could. I started mingling with successful business men to learn from them. I read all books related to business and life success. I did researches upon researches on internet about the business I was about to start and the business world overall. Even up till date, I’ve kept going to business seminars, reading business books, doing researches, getting mentors, etc....... Those are the things that opened the eyes of my spirit to understand the world of business; to know what works in that world and what doesn’t. It also helped me know all the steps that leaded all the successful people around us to where they are today.As I always feel a great joy and happiness helping people solving their life’s problems to succeed as well, I started sharing with small businesses owners all that I have acquired in the world of business to help them succeed as well. That’s how my career as business consultant started.Now, I think it will be cool to reveal the same secrets through book writing to help more young people start their own business and run it successfully as well as impacting those that are struggling in their business by revealing all the secrets behind the success of businesspeople that are around us.

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Start Small and Grow Big

By Armand Sylvain

Copyright 2020 Armand Sylvain

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DEDICATION

To God Almighty for his inspiration and guidance

To my mother who raised me with the belief that anything is possible and encouraged me to chase my dreams

To my lovely wife SYLVAIN Obianuju ONYEJIJI for her love, words of encouragement and motivation. Without your unwavering support, sacrifice and belief in me, this work would not be possible.

To my friends Kenneth OMORUYI & Abdul ALIMI for all their moral and financial supports

INTRODUCTION

If you want to create wealth and have financial freedom, you should think of creating your own business. No one creates wealth by remaining employee. This means that if you really want to create wealth you have to be your "own boss". Look at all the successful and rich people around you. They are all businessmen. None of them is an employee. They don’t work to earn salary. Instead they all have their own businesses. There are all business builders. None of them is salaried. So, no matter how much you earn as salary, do never rely on that if you want to create wealth. Earning an important salary doesn’t guarantee financial security in the future.

The good thing of being entrepreneur is that there is no limit to how much you can make daily, weekly, monthly. Your income in fact becomes "unlimited" if you manage your business properly. Meanwhile you have "limited income" if you are a salaried. Even though you earn more than a million monthly (incentive, allowance included), you wouldn’t be able to create wealth if you don’t create your own business or if you don’t invest a part of that salary to generate more income.

Think of those who earned considerable salary in the past but who are struggling financially today. I have a friend in such situation. At the time he lost his job, he didn’t invest in a business that would have being generating more income for him.

Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not saying that being salaried is bad. At least, it helps cover some needs and take care of your love ones. But if you dream of creating wealth, you should think of creating your own business.

Now here is the question most first-timers entrepreneurs ask. What type of business is profitable for me to start with when I have a LIMITED CAPITAL?

Let’s me tell you right away. Every business is profitable but not all will make you successful or rich. In every business there are those that succeed perfectly well while there are those that struggle a lot. You will know why as well as the type of businesses in which you will perfectly succeed even though you have a very little capital to start with. But first let me tell you that you have two options to choose from:

If you passionately love your present job (whether you are entrepreneur or salaried), your best option is to create a business that will generate passive income; a business that won’t need your daily attention (a business in which you won’t be in day-to-day activities).

The second option is a case whereby you are not happy in your profession; a case whereby you are always frustrated, stressed and even afraid to go to your occupation. If that’s your case I advise you to sincerely start thinking about your reconversion by creation a business in which you can be happy and have financial freedom as well. Even though you have a very little capital, there are businesses that you can create and succeed perfectly well.

In fact the book is for those that belong to the 2nd category. I mean it’s for those that aspire creating their own business with a LITTLE CAPITAL.

CHAPTER I: DO NOT BE AFRAID

I-DON’T BE AFRAID OF STARTING

The major reason many people like to remain salaried or an employee for life is because of the FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN and FEAR OF FAILURES. Those two feelings are the greatest enemies of those living in poverty. Without conquering those fears, it’s practically impossible to take the bold steps that will lead you to where you want to be in your life. What crosses their mind most times are the below questions they constantly ask themselves.

Will I really succeed if I start my own business

What will happen if I don’t succeed?

Wouldn’t people laugh at me if I fail?

Etc.…..

Let’s me tell you the truth. Everybody including the richest people of this world was once in your shoes. We all had the same feelings and asked the same questions from the very first time we decided to embark on the entrepreneurship’s journey.

But the difference is that those who create and succeed in their businesses do not allow their fear of failures conquer them. Get this in mind: "WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN THIS LIFE ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR". Let’s me explain this quote through the book written by Spencer Johnson titled "WHO REMOVED MY CHEESE ". It's a book I strongly recommend because it pictures how fear of unknown and fear of failures keeps people in poverty and suffering as well as how to get rid of it. The book is about four amusing characters divided into two categories of people.

The first category is named the Mice formed by sniff and scurry. The name of the second is little people formed by Hem & Haw. Every day the two set of people went inside maze where there were many rooms, corridors, darkness, etc..... to find cheese. The maze in the story represents where they went to get their daily bread.

Every day they all wore their shoes, cloths, entered the maze to look for cheese. Sometimes, they got a little. Other times, they didn't get any and returned back home frustrated, unhappy and hungry. This had been going on till they found a room named station C, filled up with cheese that could sustain them for years to come. They were very happy to find what they had being looking for. So every day, they went there, enjoyed their cheese and returned back home with joy and happiness. One day they went there and surprisingly, there wasn't cheese anymore.

The Mice were not too surprised because they were sensing the change and noticed that the cheese had drastically reduced. So instead of starting arguing over the sudden disappearance of the cheese they moved on looking for new cheese. Meanwhile the little people stood in the station C frustrated, unhappy and angry blaming each other of the situation without knowing what else to do. In the midst of their confusion, Haw started seeing himself finding and enjoying new cheese. The more he saw himself leaving the station C, The more excited he was.

Let's go! He exclaimed, all of sudden.

No Hem quickly responded. I like it here. It's comfortable here. It's what I know. Besides it's dangerous out there.

No it isn't, Haw argued. We've run through many parts of the maze before, and we can do it again.

I'm getting too old for that, Hem said. And I'm afraid; I'm not interested in getting lost and making fool of myself. Are you?

After that conversation, Haw's fear of failing returned and his hope of finding new cheese faded. So, every day,