Business Advice

Today some business advice as so many people are destined to do business but not finding the right way to start -

1. First of all, your business must be related to the work which you love to do. It is because any business will take sometime to settle and will give you good returns only after a few years. Like, I started this business in 2015 and I started getting regular clients from 2017 only. Now, to survive this dry period, it is important that your work is something which you love to do. Then that work itself will give you happiness and you won't take much load of not getting proper rewards and returns.

2. This leads to another connected advice that if you are starting your own business then give yourself at least 2 years time in that business. Any business takes about this much time to establish and give you returns. So, you must have your plan ready for at least 2 years. And it is impossible that you put your best efforts for 2 years and none takes notice of it. Returns are bound to come when you are showing hard work and perseverance.

3. In this day and age, we can easily utilize social media for our benefits to advertise our business and enhance our reach. There is no need to pay for advertisements if you can utilize social media.

4. This one is for those who are switching from Job to Business. Biggest mistake we can do is to compare your income of business in initial days with our income of job setup which we have just quit. This will only make us feel that we have made a mistake. We can't even compare our business income with someone else's business income. Only valid or meaningful comparison can be our own business with our own business. For ex, if 4 new people approached me this week and then if 6 new people approached me next week then it means that my business is growing and my reach is expanding.

5. Don't think about the family tradition that none in your family did business. We all have done many things in our lives which none in our families did before us. So, I don't think we are in that much love for traditions.

6. Also, don't think that you never thought about business. It is not that you never thought about business but you were never allowed to think about business. It is conspiracy of societies which condition our mind from school/college days by saying that "how you are going to survive without a job"? It is a conspiracy to keep major part of humanity enslaved in job setup because if you do business then who will do their jobs? And all this conditioning is going on despite knowing fully well that business provides the best wealth to anyone. So, it is just the result of conditioning of societies and if anything can be conditioned then it can be de-conditioned too.

7. Business advice from Buddha.After Enlightenment, Buddha wanted to share his experience with everyone in the world. He expressed this desire to Sujata and a few kids who used to visit him daily. One kid asked, but this world is vast and you are alone. How you will reach to everyone in the world?

Buddha asked back, what are you doing right now?

Kid replied, I am throwing pebbles in the river.

Buddha asked again, and what it is doing?

Kid replied, it is creating ripples in the water.

Buddha said, I need to do the same. I need to throw one pebble. I need to convince only one person that what I am saying is correct and then he will go and convince others. Like this, everyone will come to know.

Any Business also prospers the same way. Your clients are your best advertisements.

8. Last but not the least, never provide any service for free of cost. It will lose its value and you will also be not valued.

Hope this helps. Thanks,

Swami Premanand Bharti