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    Before You Launch Your Business: How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you
    Before You Launch Your Business: How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you
    Before You Launch Your Business: How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you
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    Before You Launch Your Business: How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you

    By Ruchira Agrawal

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    "Before You Launch Your Business" offers entrepreneurial wisdom to aspiring business owners and those at a career crossroads, helping them make an informed decision about entering the world of business and being self-employed.

    The eBook attempts to provide valuable insight into how to come up with a business idea that is passion and purpose based, what the differences are between working for somebody else and being self-employed, what mindset, traits, lifestyle and other necessary things one should keep in mind and prepare for, if one is considering going down this route. There is even an entrepreneurial quiz to help you determine if you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and to recognize what may need further work and planning.

    Now if you have read business books on this subject you may have read about how most talk about having a marketing and a business plan, but not many address the need for having a personal plan. In our experience, one cannot be successful professionally, if their personal and financial life aren't aligned with what they are about to undertake. Starting and being in business successfully requires more than just numbers and figures, it requires a lot of your personal life components such as the state of your finances, whether your family is on board with you or not, what you want out of your own life and so on to come together as well. Is your personal life ready to handle this career you’re about to undertake? This eBook provides you with all the information you need to have in place.
    Another area where the author takes a realistic view of things is by clarifying that passion albeit an important ingredient in being successful is not enough, one needs more than that. The book attempts to bring forth some crucial things that you must do ahead of time, if you want to do this well, thereby saving you time, costly mistakes and headache that one would go through if they were to jump in unprepared.

    One can consider this ebook as a first step before they get into the mechanicals of setting up a business.

    It is written in a down to earth, practical manner making it easy to understand. For anyone who is unemployed, stuck in a wrong profession or interested in starting a business for any other reason, this book is a must read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuchira Agrawal
    Release dateMar 21, 2011
    ISBN9780986839009
    Before You Launch Your Business: How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you
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    Ruchira Agrawal

    Ruchira Agrawal is a sales and marketing professional with extensive insight into business and people. In her 20 year career, she has helped build revenue and relationships for SMB's and startups in Ecommerce tech, Hospitality, Technical staffing and Coaching industries. She also ventured into entrepreneurship and executive coaching for a few years where she worked with professionals to help discover their story and create fulfilling careers/lives. Currently she provides sales and marketing consulting services to Ecommerce tech/B2B SaaS companies - https://www.rightaudiencemarketing.comRuchira shares her thoughts on digital commerce, sales and marketing strategies as well as leadership on her blog - www.rightaudiencemarketing.com/blog. Her previously published articles have appeared on websites and media outlets such as - Nydailynews.com, Yahoo.com, Examiner.com, Monster.com and Womenpoweringbusiness.com.Ruchira has an MBA from India and additional certifications in digital marketing - growth, go to market, abm, content, inbound, email and product marketing. She is also certified in inspiring leadership through emotional intelligence, coaching and hypnotherapy.

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      Before You Launch Your Business - Ruchira Agrawal

      Before You Launch Your Business:

      How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you

      by

      Ruchira Agrawal MBA Cht.

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Ruchira Agrawal on Smashwords

      Before You Launch Your Business:

      How to decide if being an Entrepreneur is for you

      Copyright © 2011 Ruchira Agrawal MBA Cht.

      Smashwords Edition License Statement

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      *****

      Table of Contents

      Who will benefit from this book?

      Acknowledgement

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Who is an Entrepreneur?

      Defining an Entrepreneur

      Do you have an idea or a dream?

      Your Passion is key; but is it enough to run a business successfully?

      Chapter 2: Unmasking the world of entrepreneurship

      Ten myths about being an Entrepreneur

      What kind of a life does an Entrepreneur have?

      Seven great things about being an Entrepreneur

      Chapter 3: The guidance tool you never knew you had

      Your Intuition is your best friend

      Chapter 4: First things first

      Eight questions to ask yourself before becoming an Entrepreneur

      Chapter 5: Discover your Entrepreneurial side

      Entrepreneurial Quiz

      Nine traits of successful Entrepreneurs

      Successful entrepreneurial mindset

      Chapter 6: Discovering you: Part 1

      Why do you want to be an Entrepreneur?

      Your Purpose, Passion and Business Idea

      Chapter 7: Discovering you: Part II

      Personal Vision and Plan

      What size of business are you looking to build?

      Your Family, Network and Resources available to you

      Your health—how is it?

      Chapter 8: Leap of faith

      What could hold you back?

      What comes next?

      Resources

      About the Author

      Who will benefit from this book?

      If you are an aspiring Entrepreneur, this book will provide you with the information to help you determine if entrepreneurship is really your cup of tea.

      If you’re not sure what business idea to pursue, this book will help you come up with a custom business idea that is suited to you.

      If you are a prospective Entrepreneur and are contemplating a heart-centered, creative or spiritual service business, this book will prepare you to start thinking like a business person.

      If you are a wannabe Entrepreneur, this book will help you plan and avoid mistakes that jumping in too early often bring.

      If you’re ready to trade your corporate job for entrepreneurship, this book will help you figure out if you’re really ready to make that transition.

      This is an easy read, written in a matter-of-fact, point-by-point manner to help aspiring Entrepreneurs make informed decisions about entering the world of business.

      Acknowledgement

      There are so many people to thank: my family, clients, the Universe and my own personal and professional experiences for making my journey special and enriched in many different ways.

      Thank you to my family for their support and their presence in my life. That means a lot.

      Working with my clients has been rewarding in two directions: not only have they benefited from my services, but I too have been enriched. By being a part of their personal and professional journeys, I have had the opportunity to observe life and business from a very special vantage point. This has increased my own understanding of things and has formed the basis for some of what I share in this book. So, Thank You for the opportunity. Without some of your insights, this book may not have been possible.

      I am eternally grateful to the Universe for allowing me the opportunity to create a life and business based on Purpose. I call it a Purpose-Rich business. Thank You for blessing my life in the way that you have.

      My own personal and professional experiences (and there have been many)—some good, others extremely challenging—have helped me grow, learn and get a better grasp on life and work. I am happy to be writing and sharing with you some of what I have learned as an Entrepreneur. I wish I’d had some of this Wisdom prior to starting my own business, but I was more of an Accidental Entrepreneur, I suppose. That is, one who really didn’t plan on being a business owner but discovered it to be the way that would really allow me to follow my Life’s Purpose. And soon I found myself in the shoes of an Entrepreneur. It has been an amazing journey so far and I am much indebted to every experience, big or small.

      Introduction

      Becoming an Entrepreneur is a big decision and an important one for anyone contemplating a career shift or starting a business. If you are working at a corporate job right now and are considering quitting because you want to be self-employed or you are fresh out of college and this is your first career, the prospects of having a business of your own can be both thrilling and daunting at the same time.

      The

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