Checklist Start A Business How To

How to Start a Business Checklist & Free Instructional Training Video!

1. Why are you opening the business? Is it your PASSION? You are trading 8 hours working
   for others for 16 hours working for yourself, will you LOVE it?
2. The 4 P’s: Passion, Profitability, Pitfalls & Planning.
3. How about a PARTNER?
4. Market Research: Is your idea viable? Have you charged some money for your services?
   Do people pay you and feel they got value?
5. Do you have enough money to last 3 month? CRITICAL
6. Create a Business & Marketing Plan – www.SBA.gov is a good resource
7. Seek Accounting & Legal Advice on setting up the structure & getting tax numbers (FEIN
   & Sales Tax etc..)
8. Find a location – What is a good location?
9. NEGOTIATE & Sign A Lease.
10. Cleaning & remodeling.
11. Contact Utility company and turn on the services (Electric & Gas).
12. Pick a Name for your New Business.
13. Get a great MOTO (Slogan).
14. Create a LOGO.
15. Get a Phone Number & Maybe Install a phone System (See this great video) .
16. Pick a Location.
17. Talk to the city and get permits.
18. Make a Sign using the LOGO.
19. Get a computer, printer, etc…
20. Don’t become a computer “guru” hire one.
21. Get a software to run your books & customer relationships & Inventory management.
22. Get Furniture, Fixtures, waiting room TV, Coffee Machine, magazines…
23. Join the local Chamber and go to functions.
24. Do you have a way to take money? Cash only is stupid…
25. Setup a bank account.
26. Make sure you take credit cards.
27. Get insurance.
28. Open Already! Do a soft opening until you get the kinks out, then
29. GRAND Opening (Full Video on this)
30. Decide on MARKET positioning (Critical, Critical, you must see this video)
31. The Competition: More than just positioning and Pricing concerns.. EVERYTHING!
32. Buying goods or services to sell, who will be your suppliers? Are you buying relevant
    goods? Hot items? how many sources?
33. Do you plan to offer credit to your customers? if so why? If they can’t afford it why are
    you selling it?
34. Should you buy a FRANCHISE?
35. Pricing your goods & Services
36. On Borrowing Money for Your Start-up
37. Creating a Web Strategy
38. Setting Up a Website
39. Hiring your first Employee
40. Firing Your First Employee
41. Advertising: Web, Email, Internet, Mailings, Fliers, Posters, Newspapers, Radio, TV, Web
    TV?
42. On Retention of customers. Most of the money is made from REPEAT business.
43. On Follow Up.
44. On staying and looking current.
45. On Getting and selling every lead you get…
46. Take Lots of VACATIONS. Seriously… This is my advice!
    Training Videos for how to start a new business and how to start, promote and operate a business from
    http://www.bossisme.com

My 25 years of running a successful 12 location business in Ohio which I started
with less than a $100 give me a good perspective and experience that I wish to
share with you. Please leave me a comment if you like what you see and hear.
May God Bless Your Venture and Help you Succeed
“If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me” 10 little words, all 2 letters. I live by this
rule & I 1. am sure you do too!
Rules: No Rules! You can Entrepreneur your way out of everything.
http://www.bossisme.com
I will guide your steps and pray that you create the Miracle called a business.
This will affect you, your family, your workers, your community and your country.
Go ahead and start a business and MAY GOD BLESS YOU and your new Business!
Are you starting a business? Advice for small businesses on what it takes to create a
business plan, including forming an outline, forecasting information, and establishing a
marketing strategy.
Here is the “How to Start a Business Checklist”: (I created training videos about most of
these subjects) see them at http://www.bossisme.com
This list is NOT everything, but I cover a lot. feel free to add items I may have
missed and I will use them as suggestions for next video.

Youtube’s Transcript

This morning I got up and I wanted to search the web for a checklist to try to compare notes. I’ve already gotten about six of these videos put in the can, three of them already up on the YouTube channel and I’m trying to think of additional ideas. What am I missing? Let me see what other people think about when they want to open the business.

I have my own preconceived checklist and I go through it.

In the checklist yes this is useful, no this is not, is my brain thinking and to my surprise the first like couple of pages that come up are all government sites and they give us a list of the mechanical ways you need to open a place.

Register a name, get a phone number, etc. those are all mechanicals and I wanted to make this series from a perspective of someone who has done it, and a perspective of someone who’s here to answer any question for you if you have a business and you’re going to ask me questions.

BELOW UNEDITED includes uh and um

I’m going to give you one of three answers: either the right answer, or I don’t know, or I don’t want to answer. There’ll be a lot of “I don’t want to answer that one,” and sometimes just “I don’t have the time to give you the right answer in depth.” I may, I’m in the process of shooting this series, so you guys forgive the craziness sometimes; birds, bugs, and stuff. Anyway, that’s the perspective I’m doing; the background that I have, you’ll hear me mention this repeatedly throughout the series. What we do is we take these videos and we send them worldwide, individually, so I have to tag every one of them. Please forgive me and put up with them as your way of giving me a gift. Would you be gracious and agree to let me have that? Because they honestly get on my nerves too. I’d like to say our name at the opening of this whole conversation, I’d like to say it at the end, but I also like the idea that when we syndicate our videos, they need to have a way back into us. Anyway, I’m trying to build something very special, and I hope you’ll start building your own very special something.

In another video, I talk about, you know, the four Ps. I just shot that this morning: the four Ps of profit, passion, pitfalls, profitability, and planning. And I joke around that I wasn’t much of a planner, and I was, you’re going to like that video. I’m not going to say too much about it, but we had a good 25-year run at the height of my business. Most people are happy to be agents of the year for their brand; we were agents of the decade for the entire state of Ohio. I enjoyed every minute of what I do, so I hope I can convey that joy. I give it all to God first for giving it to me, and to entrepreneurship. So, I’m biased; you’ll hear me say that. If there were two people in the room, and I had to choose one, and one is an entrepreneur, I’m probably going to lean towards the entrepreneur because this is someone that believes that we can do it. We’re the ones that, when everyone else is saying it can’t be done, we’re interrupting them while we’re doing it. So, I’m partial to entrepreneurship, and I’m very thankful God guided me in that way. It’s been a 30-some-year life at the time of recording this. I came here at age 16, I was officially in business by age 18, and honestly, the reason was, people like me with my kind of last name are not very employable. So, you’ll end up seeing us in that grocery store; we don’t open your grocery stores and your Main Street businesses because we want to; we actually prefer to have gotten a job for 20 bucks an hour back then, and we would be very content with that, but we normally didn’t get hired. And you know, it wasn’t just the fact that you’re a foreigner and have a weird name but also the fact that your English is going to be weaker, that your customs are going to be stranger, that you do things differently, you say things differently, you think differently. So, you know, overall, the chemistry people feel like might be a challenge. But I got to tell you, you can ask anybody that deals with us: we came to America because we are Americans at heart, and we’re all about entrepreneurship. Any entrepreneur born anywhere in the world is an American. So, if you’re hearing me this and you have an entrepreneurial spirit, if you have a spirit of knowing no matter what, God has given me the strength to overcome it, that’s you. That’s all that’s what an entrepreneur is, not necessarily someone who makes money. An entrepreneur is someone who could think his way out of a paper bag. I don’t mean to ramble a lot about this, but it is really important. We all have that person inside of us, and it’s my job to make the appeal to bring the entrepreneur out. So, if you’ve hung with me this far, you must like what you’re hearing. Thanks. I’m long-winded sometimes, but I’m extremely passionate about what I do. And you know, if I’m intense and passionate, that means I’m going to get it done. And, God willing, I have a mission, and I’m not going to hide it from you: it’s to make every one of us an entrepreneur. You can argue any which way you want, but I would take a one-man entrepreneur any day over any other multiple giant corporation. You know, you can at least talk to this guy. With a corporation, you talk to a rule book. I’d like to humanize everything we do with each other, and I think the easiest way to do it is just make everyone of us an entrepreneur, make us all accountable for our actions and activities, not just how smart we are on the paperwork. Anyway, there I go, I told you I ramble sometimes. I have a passion for what I’m doing. My father was an entrepreneur; he used to be a building contractor in Syria, and I learned a lot watching him. He was a good man. Forgive me, sorry about that.

Anyway, well, my search came up with all kinds of different ways to get this list looked at, and I’m going to actually course through all of them and try to get the best ideas from all of them. But what I did notice is that the majority of the first two pages were from IRS.gov, .gov, .gov. I was like, “Wow, we matter so much; we are a subject of conversation for all government,” and yet, reality is, whatever we want to try to do to bring back America is going to have to be self-initiated, and every one of us needs to pitch in. This series is designed to motivate you; it’s designed to inspire you, but most importantly, it’s designed to get you off your you-know-what and let’s get to work. If you ever wanted to own your own business, this free series is going to tell you A to Z, and I’ll be available, and I’ll make a host of people available to you to have a discussion. Don’t get carried away; we’re not here to discuss political viewpoints; we’re not here to discuss baseball; we’re here to discuss one thing: entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and what’s working. You know, let’s nag less, get done more, let’s share what’s working. And you know, over these series, which will come randomly, I’m going to actually say, “Hey, I forgot to bring something about this subject out,” so I’m going to come out with a much more enhanced version. It is my goal to keep writing these videos until I run out of ideas; then I go on to something else and write about it or work passionately about it. But you know, I had passion for the other business for 25 years, but it was an automotive business. We started it when we were kids; every boy wanted to be next to the car his whole life. I did; I owned Autoaccents, and it was, I made it into a love brand in my community. To this day, it still gets 5,000 visits a month, and the phone calls go to two competitors; one of them is my brother. Well, yeah, he was my competitor back then, and I love him dearly; it’s my youngest brother.

Back to the list: I got a list, and I’m going to be picking from the list, and I’m not going to bore you. This isn’t about the list today. This is about what I found. I was going for the list.

You know, the government wants us to succeed, depends on us to succeed, and we need to be strong so we can have a good government, and the more of us that are accountable to one another, the better. I don’t want to royal about anything political; I’m not running for anything political, so you know, this isn’t about that. I’m not doing anything with politics; I’m just saying what’s on my mind and trying to give back to a community that has done fabulous for me. So, with that, this is kind of an extended forward.

On to the next video; I’m going to try to have all of them done here, but that’s going to be impossible because otherwise, then I won’t keep going. But I will try to have them all in a nice setting so you can count on always having a nice setting, whether it’s the front of a store that looks really artsy or the beautiful setting of a natural park where birds get mad at you and they start chirping, thinking you’re going to hurt them, or the bees or the ants, or whatever. But I’ll try to bring you these regularly.

I hope you’ll like them; they’re intended to be real, and I’ll try to do as little editing as possible. I think if you watch this series, you’re going to see, or you’re going to hear a lot that I love first takes. Sometimes I watch a first take, and I really screw it up at a point, and I’m just almost want to cry because, yes, that opening was so good, but the fashion of the first take will not be there on the second one. That’s kind of how I think. Anyway, God bless you. Let’s go get them. You can do it. You know, I said on the video a little bit earlier, those of us that are doing it are generally interrupting those who are saying it can’t be done, and if it is to be, it’s up to me. Ten little words, two letters each, let all live by them. God bless you. Oh, please subscribe; you know, this is the commercial. Please subscribe, or go to kaboompages.com and give back by forwarding this to a few people.

Thank you.