Do You Need A Degree To Make Millions?

The short answer is – definitely not.
For the last 30 years or so, young people have been aggressively pushed onto an academic path leading to university degree and entrepreneurship has been ignored. In the 1960s, the percentage of young people going to university was five per cent. Today that figure is closer to 45 per cent, and rising fast. And the government’s target had been for 50 per cent of school leavers to go to university.

Why do we think getting a degree is so great? Because we are told that people with degrees have far better prospects. They get better jobs, better wives and husbands, adapt healthier habits and are generally more successful. Whereas people who don’t get degrees are poorer and get stuck in crummy, dead-end jobs. As a nation, we worship at the altar of higher education because we think it will enable people to become effective system users.

Unfortunately, it’s pretty much an open secret now that many degrees are useless when it comes to getting a good job, and graduates are the first to admit it. With the tuition fees rising soon, what else they are to do? Learning doesn’t just take place in the classroom or lecture room. The point is that anybody can become an entrepreneur – with or without a degree. And there is no secret in saying that you can start your business and get rich - without going to university. Whatever you are doing now, you can do it. I believe that everybody can become a successful entrepreneur.

When you feel that what you’ve got is somehow, not enough and when you ask yourself constantly: Is this it? Forget about getting a degree, if you don’t already have one. Get back to where the real action is. Get back to having a good time. Get back to where your potential matches up to the growing reality and start running a business.

Are You An Entrepreneur? Have You Got What It Takes?

Here are some basic questions you can ask yourself:

1. Are you basically self-motivated in at least a few constructive pursuits, like music, a job, or a hobby of some kind?
2. Do you like having money?
3. Do you have a realistic perception of money?
4. Do you sort of know and take an interest in what is going on around you?
5. If you hit a brick wall do you give up or do you persevere?
6. Do you look after yourself or do you need to be nagged?
7. Do you mix OK with people?
8. Do you try new things and learn from them?
9. Can you take criticism?
10. Are you a sincere and honest person?
11. Do you enjoy dealing with the public?
12. Are you an organized individual?

If you answered ‘yes’ or ‘sort of’ to at least six of these questions, then congratulations!
The truth is, it’s not that hard to set up a good business

How To Run Your Business Without Making Those 3 Basic Mistakes?

When you decide to run your own business you should not do the following things:

· You should not re-mortgage your house or go to the bank or venture capitalists for a start-up loan.
Usually when people start out in business they have a very specific picture of how it will look. There is an office, a receptionist, carpets, desks, computers, headed stationery, cool business cards, a nice marketing budget ... and so on. The most important question is not: “Where will I find the start up capital?” The most important question is how are you going to get, and satisfy, your first 100 customers? Filing cabinets and pictures on the wall do not make you money. Customers make you money. If you have chosen your business well – narrow, cheap, unoriginal and early – you should need much money to get your first 100 customers.

· You should not invite your mate or spouse to join you as a partner.
If you have a good business idea, keep it to yourself. Why? Two reasons: You need 100% ownership, always and forever and nothing less will do.
Going into business with a friend or spouse will not only kill the business, it will probably kill the friendship or marriage as well, so you are left doubly bereaved.
This is one of the most common reasons for business failure. It happens time and time again. For one thing, being mates is a whole different game from being business partners. If you want to be rich, you have to embrace this mindset. And it will ruin your friendship (or marriage). Although you are totally equal as partners, however, inequalities show up very quickly in the harsh and unforgiving light of business. By all means, you can employ them and pay them well. You don’t need to make them joint owners of your wealth machine.

· You should not spend weeks writing up a detailed business plan
The only reason you would do this is if you went to the bank for a loan and we decided that it is not on. But some people do it anyway. They seem to feel it will help clearing things, work out in advance strategies for dealing with unforeseen circumstances etc. It is a waste of time. Why? Because analysing the market and the competition, projecting sales, cash flow, and profit and loss, is all guesswork. It is imagined response to imagined events. Your business plan should be five words long. Ready? “Get and keep more customers.”

How To Market Your Business For Free?

You don’t need to spend money on advertising. You don’t need focus groups or expensive brand awareness campaigns. All you need to do is put few sentences together in plain English and be able to create a web page.

If you can’t do it yourself, ask your friend to do it for you or pay a little money for a proper web designer to create your page. Then just write stuff and make web pages. You know that information is King. People are searching for information all the time and this phase is important because it is part of the buying cycle.

The first thing anybody does now when they want to buy something is Google it. The internet has been with us for years now, and we all feel like old hands t it, but the truth is that very few companies know how to use it properly for marketing.

The internet is amazing. For next to nothing, for pennies, it allows you to reach people all over the world who might have an interest in what you have to offer. It is the single most ground-shifting invention in media terms since the printing press. And yet hardly anyone out there has grasped how to use it.

So what is the answer?

Very simple. Just start talking to people. There is a bit of a trick to this, but not a huge one. You have to begin to think like your potential customers. You have to understand them and start giving them what they want, which is information. If you don’t know what they want – ask them. Talk to them. Pay attention to what they say. Make a list of the questions they are asking. Use the words they use.

Then you write simple articles that answer those questions and you publish them as separate pages on your website.

There it is, the big secret weapon.

Set the pages up so that Google can find it easily for people who are searching and write good articles.

What Kind Of Business Should I Run From Home?

There are many businesses you can run from home. But given all the available information you should only consider a business which has all of the following characteristics:

1. Unlimited income potential

You can grow this business as big as you want – for example, from £90,000 in a first year to £400,000 within a couple of years to millions later. It is not too demanding and complicated.

2. It can bring you money within a short time, for example within two weeks

You need a business which allows you to get some customers right away, get some cash flowing and grow from there. A service is generally a lot less expensive to launch than a product, especially if it is something you already know how to do or can learn quickly. Gardening, cleaning and selling comes to mind as well as cutting hair, walking dogs, chatting with old people, growing vegetables or painting houses.

3. You can start on a shoestring budget, no massive overheads

There are many businesses run from home you can start for well under £200, for example a domestic cleaning agency.

4. No experience required

You can learn from other people’s mistakes by reading books and manuals available out there.

5. You can be your own boss

It’s absolutely my favourite reason for starting my own business. Nothing quite compares to the pride and excitement of calling the shots and being in charge of your own destiny.

6. You can set your own hours

It is great to take days off when you want and as often as you can get away with. You can work part time or full time or start part time and when you make enough money to quit your job. You find that you work smarter instead of harder because you are able to tap into your natural sense of responsibility.

7. You can choose who you work with

If you discover you don’t exactly click with a client, you can replace them quickly. You can run your business by yourself or with a partner or delegate some duties to a helper.