If you are a regular reader of Passnownow.com, you will be most familiar with our constant preachment of the need for young people to embrace entrepreneurship. Well we do that because we about the importance of entrepreneurship not just to teenagers, but to the overall development of our economy/country. We sincerely hope you’re taking everything we’ve been teaching about entrepreneurship into consideration and practice. Remember, there is never a right time to become entrepreneurial. There are so many teenage entrepreneurs around the world who are doing great stuff. But then before you can become a successful entrepreneur, you need to prepare yourself. The tips discussed below will show you how…
GET YOURSELF MENTORED:
To become a successful entrepreneur, it’s imperative to find the right mentor and role model. And mind you, whoever you choose to look up to must be someone who is at the top of their game. And the good thing is that entrepreneurs abound in our country today. And in this day and age of Information Technology, it is easy to contact some of these entrepreneurs. So contact them and make your desire to be mentored by them known. I’m sure they will willingly oblige your request.
YOU MUST SHARPEN YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
In business, communication is inevitable. As such, no aspiring entrepreneur can afford not to be good communicators. You cannot afford to lose out on important opportunity or even lose potential clients and partners just because you cannot speak, listen, write and literarily communicate well. So you cannot afford not possess the right communications skills. Acquire them today.
INNOVATE WHEN POSSIBLE:
Now just to be real, it’s very possible that there is nothing special about the business idea you have come up with; after all, there is nothing new under the sun as they say. And because of this possibility of there being people already doing the same thing you are proposing to do, it’s important for you to conduct business research about your competition and be very innovative in the way you intend to compete with them. The ability to be innovative in business is what gives any entrepreneur a competitive edge. Be innovative!
LEARN TO MANAGE YOUR STRESS:
Already, teenagers have lots of things causing them stress- homework, likely family problems and more. Adding entrepreneurship to the mix is more or less like complicating the problem. Indeed, entrepreneurship can cause a lot of stress. Therefore, it is important for any aspiring entrepreneur to learn to manage stress.
