It is a common fact that about 80 percent of small businesses will eventually fail within the first five years. There are many reasons why this could happen. As an example, people could run their businesses incompetently and they don’t know what it takes to gain success in the market. They don’t know how to proceed beyond the first dozens of customers and it’s difficult to establish a great foundation for their business. We need more than just a stack of business cards to establish a solid presence in the market. In order to prevent failure, it is important for them to sit down and devise a real business plan. It’s true that failing to plan is really about planning to fail. We need more than just a business plan, we need a really good plan to ensure success in the market. It’s quite likely that we walk into various deals and fail to get a closer look at it. But what do we do if much of our inventory sits in the storage and shelves for months and months. Even with various attractive deals that we offer, it appears that very little people express their interest in buying it.

Many new business owners need to operate on a shoestring budget and they need to keep it smart by reducing overhead to the very minimum. The basic rule is that we shouldn’t for anything that we can’t afford. In this case we may need to postpone and purchase things that we can afford initially. As an example, many small businesses don’t need the latest, fastest computer in the market. Basic entry-level desktop PCs are powerful enough for running Office suites and other productivity tools. Business owners should be aware that they may need to deal with unexpected expenses, a wheel of bills of the need to be paid and paychecks for employees. Although many professionals want to escape the rat race, improperly run business could actually become a new kind of rat race. In this case, we should make sure to spend properly during the first five years to make sure that we can achieve healthy profitability. In this case, it would be possible for us to become financially independent in the future.

Being organized is also crucial if we want to run a business successfully. In this case, we may struggle to find important contacts, references, paperwork and this could result in reduced profitability. In this case, we should avoid wasting energy and time. The organization should be maintained properly to make sure that we don’t re-invent the wheel. The modern technology offers plenty of opportunities that allow us to stay productive. In this case, small business owners who want to survive need to have a time-efficient business model and they should learn how to apply it. There are many technological tools that we can make and our lives can become easier and simple if we know how to use them for our purposes.