Thinking of Your Own Business Start Up Are you the entrepreneurial type who searches the local paper looking for Businesses for Sale? Do you dream that one day you will make money on line? re you contemplating your own business start up?

You've achieved success

in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty (1937 - )

There are as many reasons to start a business

as there are entrepreneurs looking to start one

and now that the labour market is so bad there are thousands of good people out there who simply can't find a normal job but are determined not to while away their life on government handouts.

Perhaps the transition that people who were in safe employment and now find themselves 'unemployable' must make. Much depends on the scale of your start up. You may start off with a team around you and not have to become a 'jack-of-all-trades' yourself, but most business start ups are small, one or two people giving business a try. In this case you will have to be a salesman (or woman) a book-keeper, a fund raiser, and the one who delivers your goods and services.

Is there a key that guarantees success?

Well no, but there are several keys to failure:

• failure to plan properly
• failure to learn from others
• failure to comit.

And this is where a community like ours comes in

In a wiki site like ours people who have been through the mill can help those going through it.

We can also help you with your business plans and budgets and to consider franchising or buying an existing business.