Business Entrepreneurship

In recent days, how to ease the employment problem as representatives of two members to participate in a common topic of concern. Counterparts in the relevant provinces and municipalities with the assistance of party newspaper, I interviewed a number of delegates, their common approach to expanding employment, pointing to a virtual network that the “network of employment,” the time has come. Blind students on-line business In Shanghai, the delegation, I heard the story of a business:
As of January 10, blind students from the five Shanghai Taobao shop founded by “intention create the world” more than 70 transactions completed, the credit rating to a “three hearts”, which means that their shops had been broken The island business successfully survive. This is the world’s first completely blind to create a successful online store, founded in September last year. Blind students using the software to read out the contents of the computer screen to complete the product Management , Customer communication and online Marketing , Is really “hearing” to business. To this end, they overcome a lot of difficulties, such as ordinary people a simple click Login, they need seven or eight steps in the operation of the keyboard. For consumers, this is only tens of millions of home Taobao, a general store. They do not rely on to win the sympathy of others to complete the transaction, because across the computer screen, most of the customers and their transactions do not know the owner is a special group of people who like Other Like chat, bargain, to complete the transaction. National People’s Congress Standing Committee Deputy Director of Hangzhou Huida to the author about such a case: Xuzhou sand town, used to be a lack of resources, existing industry just “Shou Polan” place, but Internet business boom, driven by market town now has more than 1,200 sand Online Shop, 33 furniture factories, products are sold to major cities, courier companies, computer stores, carton plant, Adhesive Tape Factory, Hardware Accessories factory peripheral industries are also developing, at present, the town up to 6 million yuan in courier fees. “Network is virtual, but the job is real. As a viable channel in employment, the importance of the network is increasingly apparent.” Network of long-term in the NPC, vice president of Qingdao University, Shao Fengjing introduction, the study said: the end of 2009, Taobao direct jobs created over more than 80 million, will drive about 2.28 million indirect jobs. Electronics Business Unlimited Potential 2010 years of government work report, the first proposed “strengthening the commercial circulation system and other infrastructure, and actively developing e-commerce.” Reason for the development of e-commerce, an important reason why it has become an important way to increase employment. National People’s Congress, China Mobile Guangdong Xu Long, General Manager introduced e-commerce transaction costs reduce the role of society, many consumers have by way of online shopping has personal experience. Asia’s largest network of retail platform Taobao, for example, in 2009 the trade volume of over 200 billion yuan. As of the end of 2009, Taobao has created 808,800 direct jobs, lead logistics, payment, marketing and other industry chain to 2,305,100 jobs. In addition, B2B features of the Alibaba Group has become a global influence e-commerce businesses, as of the third quarter of last year, Alibaba B2B platform for registered users reached 45.3 million, with 6.1 million enterprise shops. Which only engage in foreign trade business of international trading market to reach 10.5 million users, 10 million mark for the first time.

Can there really be a silver lining to being laid off or caught in a reduction in force? While many are facing tough realities in the wake of the economic downturn, there are signs that the entrepreneurial spirit that fuels business innovation is alive and well. Fact of the matter is that the explosive growth in start-up businesses isn’t surprising.

While large corporations are reducing their workforce, they haven’t reduced their need for skilled work. Often, this work is being done by the same former-employees who are now consultants.
First off, how do you decide if you should look for another job or start your own business instead?

While each person’s situation is different, there are a few key questions to ask yourself:

1. Do I have marketable skills?
2. Would I prefer to fail or succeed based on my own efforts?
3. Am I willing to shoulder some risk for a bigger payoff and more freedom?
4. Do I have a passion for my field or industry?
If you answered yes, to three out of the four questions above, entrepreneurship may just be an option for you to consider.

But what are the pros and cons of working for yourself?
In speaking with many of our clients who are themselves entrepreneurs, there are a few common reasons why they love working for themselves. They love being at the helm and having success based on their own efforts. They are free to do the work they want to do and choose which clients they work for. Surprisingly, lower down on the scale is the increase in personal control of their office and schedules. 

However, there are some drawbacks to working for yourself if you aren’t careful. While you may be an expert in your field, for many there is a learning curve associated with gaining all of the skills to successfully run a business. As a start-up business owner, you are not only responsible for doing work for your clients, but you will need to handle the finance, HR, marketing, and all of the other components necessary to grow a business. In addition to needing additional skills, many people starting off find that they work longer hours than they did in their previous job because they not only do the work carried out by the business but all of the other administrative tasks.

How do you avoid the pitfalls?

- Check in your area and you will most likely find there are a number of organizations to help you both with education on how to run your business, and some will even help you find funding. Check out the Small Business Administration, government agencies, and local non-profit groups.

- Network as much as possible. One of our clients who went from bootstrap startup to one of the most profitable companies in Silicon Valley found that often times he could tap his network to solve problems and take work off of his hands.  As of today, much of his admin work is handled by the office network in our center – his corporate council is the attorney who works down the hall … same with his accountant.

- Tap services out there to help. There are many hosted office space and virtual office businesses out there like ours that can provide you with both the image to compete and the resources and expert support that allow you to focus on growing your business instead of being bogged down with administrative tasks. Instead of managing your office space – outsource it!