Who said you can’t start a business with no money down?
Intuit did a report looking at significant trends that will be impacting consumers and small businesses in the next decade.
Imagine a world where….
Trend #1 – small businesses can find significant opportunities in providing specialized products and services to meet the customized needs of their target market.
The more specific your niche, the greater your potential for opportunity.
Trend #2 – customers will have control over the relationship between them and the producer of a product or service due to educating themselves about the product or service before purchasing it.
Do you understand now why it is so important to create a product or service base on what on what our customer’s needs and wants are?
Trend #3 – lack of cash will not be a barrier to starting a business. According to Intuit, “the cost of starting and running a business will continue to decline as smaller, lighter, and smarter systems, components, and manufacturing emerge.”
We are in an “information” age economy. Are you using the internet, social media, and “smart” technology just as a consumer or are you thinking of ways to be a producer?
Trend #4 – As mid-size businesses get “gobbled” up by large firms, there will be either be small business or big business. Small businesses will have a competitive advantage due to their nimbleness and agility to adapt to an ever changing environment.
How are you going to eat your piece of the pie?
Trend #5 – Social networks will fuel collaboration between both businesses and their customers. It will be based on social commerce where using social networking to aggregate demand, share information about products and prices, and have a win-win business deal that benefits everyone.
How are you going to take advantage of these trends that are happening TODAY?
They should serve as a motivating force to let you know that starting a business is easier now than it has ever been in the past. No excuses!
You should be thinking about how and what type of business you can start to capitalize on these trends.
How?
I will be sharing with you how to do that. Look out for my ebook, How to Start a Business with No Money.
Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
Tags: Intuit, niche marketing, small business, small business trends