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The Basic Step of Making Money

In some places than others, it is simpler to make money. Consider the Ogden hardware store owner who made a fortune selling shovels during the California gold rush. He realized right once that a lot more shovels would be required when people flocked to the West and began excavating everywhere in search of gold. He then sent a letter back east and bought as many shovels as he could. The sales pitch was not deceptive. He only needed to promote the fact that he had shovels to sell, and the prospectors bought them from him at a premium.


There is no expertise involved in such type of merchandise. It also doesn't call for any understanding of business principles. The gold rush, however, is over. West has been colonized. Today, having a stock of goods is no longer enough to run a profitable firm. You must understand how to profitably market products. Today, nine out of 10 men who start businesses fail because they fall short of those standards, notably the last criterion.

Therefore, learning a little bit about it is the first step in starting your own business. You don't have to be fully informed. But you need to have some knowledge about it. Fortunately, you can find a lot of the information you need in books and industry publications. Most of the time, you can receive the information you need from the companies that make the tools you'll need to get started. Publications from the federal and state governments are useful to you. Even though you can get all of this experience for a very little price, it has already cost others a lot of time and money. Therefore, to benefit from the collective experience of others, study everything that has been written about the business you intend to launch. Then, pick up where those plans left off.

Many individuals would view the idea of learning how to make money through books to be absurd. They will inform you that trading action and aptitude are essential for business accomplishment. They will provide examples of men who never picked up a book in their lives but yet succeeded in business. Do not let these opinions sway you. No man has ever gone into business for himself without reading about what others had done to reduce the amount of time it required to establish himself. Reading a business book is similar to being invited into the author's home, where you may discuss your issues with him over a meal. Such a discussion of ideas is only silly to those who believe they already know everything there is to know and more. Why shell out hundreds of dollars to discover that a company idea or plan will fail when someone who has already attempted the idea explains why it is a bad idea in a book or magazine article? You can examine the references to books, pamphlets, and journals listed at the conclusion of this volume to learn more about certain business issues. Refer to those sources. They could spare you a lot of pain and loss.

But understand this: Reading alone won’t help you to succeed in business. Until someone uses the best money-making concept ever, it is completely worthless. You undoubtedly know a lot of intelligent people who have more business ideas than a dog has fleas, but who are never able to save up enough money to purchase a used car. Why do they need to be fixed? They resemble the inventor who never quits coming up with new ideas long enough to produce and market his creation. The smartest man in America can have a thousand ideas flying around in his head, but it only takes one solid idea to generate income.

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