How to start a new business with no experience?

Starting a new business doesn’t necessarily mean you need to have prior experience. It’s not the lack the experience that businesses fail. Businesses fail because of its failure to plan and prepare.

Starting a business is always challenging. Sure, having experience can help you in many scenarios, but still, it’s a complex process. So, we’ve come up with a few best practices that you can follow to help you in the initial struggling days.

Research the Market

Understand the market and before investing your money and time. Entrepreneurs should always consider entry barriers and not just startup costs. It is always best to stay away from industries that have regulatory hurdles.

It is a treacherous path for a business if you don’t understand the market. Spend some time with industry experts, contractors, read market reports and understand the difficulties you’d face. Research competitors to get an idea about the challenges and successes they have to ensure your business is viable.

Create a Plan

Creating a business plan can seem a little daunting, and rightly so. You have to create an outline of your intentions, target market, competitors, business growth time, marketing strategies, budget and more. A business without a plan is doomed to fail. You always need a contingency plan to rely on even if everything goes south.

Having a well thought-out plan helps you to keep track of everything and make sure it’s going as planned.

Start Small

The extensive research and plan will give you all the confidence you need. However, it’s not wise to go big from the get-go and bet everything on what you’ve read. Theory and practical and two complete opposite poles. So, try not to get overboard.

Starting small will help you test the water. It’ll help you gain knowledge on customer, market, and with the feedback, you can optimize the service/[roduct and try again. Even if you fail, it won’t be a devasting defeat. You will be able to recover quickly, improve the product and refine your methods. Failure is necessary to gain experience.

Use Free Tools

There are endless free and useful products online that can help you launch and build your startup. All you have to do is little research, and you can save yourself a fortune. Some of the tools that you can use:

• WordPress – to build websites
• Apptivo – to manage invoices, finances, help desk, inventory and more. All-in-One tool if you will.
• HootSuite – to manage your social media pages.

Ask for Help

Don’t hesitate to ask for help. You’re always better off giving your accounting to an accountant and legal issues to a lawyer. These are complicated and tiresome. It’s a no-brainer to entrust to someone who enjoys doing it, and who does it better than you.

Wearing multiple hats is okay. However, the critical thing is not to go overboard.
So, it’s okay to ask help from experts to help you with tasks that you can’t do yourself.