Thinking About Starting A New Business? - What To Look Out For!

With all the choices out there. How can you make sure that the company your considering to start with is viable?

There are three types of business in this world. One that sells products to other existing businesses. This is called B2B or business to business sales. They don't sell to households or individuals. This type of business is normally a service that is designed to increase another businesses sales or productivity.

Next is the business to consumer model. These make up all your health product mlms, or other consumer products like communication services etc. Sometimes they can sell to small individual business owners but for the most part can't compete with the corporate pricing that larger companies get.

The last is the business to consumer and business model. This one obviously has appeal to anyone no matter if they have a business or not. These products can be sold to anyone and generally have a use for both the consumer and the business owner. These are rare but they are extremely lucrative.

Finding a viable and long term company to partner with is crucial for success.

-The company must be well funded in the beginning so that when or if setbacks come, the company can get through those times with ease.

-The market that they are in must be something that is not already being used by the masses. If it is then the success of the company will be based upon if the companies product is less expensive, or more convenient for the end user.
For example: If you are a company that is launching a new search engine, then my first point is that you are late to the game, the users of search engines have made thier decision about what search engines they are going to use, second you are not going to convert many Google users over to using your search engine. So, you will have issues convincing business owners to pay money to be a part of a search engine that has no users. This type of business model is doomed unless the new search engine can get to the first 2 pages of Google for all of the information that is being requested on Google. If it can't then it will fail. Remember that 85 percent of all searches are done on Google, so they have the people already. If the users of Google weren't satisfied with the quality of information they receive when they searched for information or services then they would have left Google for another search engine and Google would not have the number domination that they do.

If you are going to play in the search engine game then you better be prepared to play on Googles home field!

My point is to think it through. Think like a local business owner and ask yourself if you would pay to be on this engine? Think like a consumer and ask yourself if you would use this engine to search for information or products you are looking for. I think in both cases if you are of meager smarts that the answer would be no. Don't get caught up in the hype of something. Test out your opportunity by going and asking some local business owners which one they would pick. "Would they rather show up on the first two pages of Google or would they like to be at the top of a search engine that has no visitors in their local area.

Eddie Holford
Your City Directory and Savings Website
Own Your City Today.

Test this system: Go to Google and search for "gym memberships in oregon city" or "oil change coupons in oregon city". Eventually whenever any resident in Oregon City, Oregon uses Google to find savings, discounts or coupons in this city on Google they will see this website. The advertisers are showing on the first page in most cases and as this site adds more advertisers the higher this site gets indexed.