thetakeover
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Over the past 6 months something has become pretty clear to me from running my online business.. I don't know much about recognizing opportunity (or maybe I do an I'm underestimating myself).
Just a bit of background: In the field Im in I created a pretty unique service and I've sold it for roughly 2k per customer. I saw opportunity, recognized a void and took advantage of it.. this $2000 service has gotten a much better response than my products for a couple hundred simply based on it's value.
I'm not a fan of that business, I don't think it follows all of the rules of the fastlane, it's not something I see myself doing for long term and I feel very limited as an entrepreneur, almost like I'm not growing and learning all I can about growing a big business. However it has done a couple things for me: 1) Opened my eyes to what it really takes to succeed in business and 2) Allowed me to bank a bit money for my next venture.
Now that that's out of the way, I'm looking to get into a business where I can connect with successful business owners, this is my way of expanding my horizons and being able to recognize opportunity. Networking, asking questions and at the same time providing a lot of value with what I'm good at, online marketing and advertising.
The only reason I was able to recognize opportunity in the first business was because I was so heavily involved with it, I knew what people were looking for that wasn't offered. It seems like to do this again (with all of the fastlane principles aligned) I will have to get heavily involved with another market, ask questions, talk with business owners and evaluate things.
This is my current process for recognizing opportunities, and I'm wondering if any of you follow something similar or do you have a completely different way of going about it? It seems like a lot of very successful people simply stumble upon opportunities and jump all in with them but I think that's because we're fed by the media the "winning lottery ticket" mentality that anyone could be the lucky one.
In reality, I feel like most very successful people grind their asses off, look for voids in the markets they're involved with, ask questions to the right people and once they do decide to get in, adapt ideas based around the feedback they get.
To sum it up this is my view of recognizing opportunity. Just want to make sure I'm on the right track and if you have any thoughts or feedback just let me know.
Yes, this is my first post and very happy to be part of this community.
Just a bit of background: In the field Im in I created a pretty unique service and I've sold it for roughly 2k per customer. I saw opportunity, recognized a void and took advantage of it.. this $2000 service has gotten a much better response than my products for a couple hundred simply based on it's value.
I'm not a fan of that business, I don't think it follows all of the rules of the fastlane, it's not something I see myself doing for long term and I feel very limited as an entrepreneur, almost like I'm not growing and learning all I can about growing a big business. However it has done a couple things for me: 1) Opened my eyes to what it really takes to succeed in business and 2) Allowed me to bank a bit money for my next venture.
Now that that's out of the way, I'm looking to get into a business where I can connect with successful business owners, this is my way of expanding my horizons and being able to recognize opportunity. Networking, asking questions and at the same time providing a lot of value with what I'm good at, online marketing and advertising.
The only reason I was able to recognize opportunity in the first business was because I was so heavily involved with it, I knew what people were looking for that wasn't offered. It seems like to do this again (with all of the fastlane principles aligned) I will have to get heavily involved with another market, ask questions, talk with business owners and evaluate things.
This is my current process for recognizing opportunities, and I'm wondering if any of you follow something similar or do you have a completely different way of going about it? It seems like a lot of very successful people simply stumble upon opportunities and jump all in with them but I think that's because we're fed by the media the "winning lottery ticket" mentality that anyone could be the lucky one.
In reality, I feel like most very successful people grind their asses off, look for voids in the markets they're involved with, ask questions to the right people and once they do decide to get in, adapt ideas based around the feedback they get.
To sum it up this is my view of recognizing opportunity. Just want to make sure I'm on the right track and if you have any thoughts or feedback just let me know.
Yes, this is my first post and very happy to be part of this community.
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