When Dreams Meet Goals, The Entrepreneur is Born.

What life qualities make up the personality of an entrepreneur?

What are the best degree programs to prepare for a life of successful entrepreneurship?

Most new businesses fail because their owners are poorly prepared. They dream, but don’t look far enough beyond their dreams.

Marketing is an essential degree for anyone who will create a business, promote it, and sell its products and/or services.

Revenue is your bottom line. If you can’t develop a revenue flow, nothing else matters. Many great business plans have failed because poor marketing failed the company.

Management is another powerful degree tool, with which to run your own business.

You can develop an amazing revenue flow, and squander it in failed management practices. Many good companies have been run into the ground by poor managers.

Before embarking on your degree of choice, ask yourself these questions, and answer them honestly:

• Will I follow through and earn a degree in marketing or management?
• Am I willing to study for my degree, and then work long hours each day to build my dream?
• Do I have skills in a profession, trade, or hobby that can be converted into a business?
• Does my idea for a business effectively exploit my skills and abilities?
• Am I a good manager, planner, and organizer; controlling my own time and tendencies?
• Can I make my own decisions, or am I more comfortable following the dictates of others?
• Am I willing to postpone my plans in order to get more education, beyond my basic degree, if necessary?
• Does my family support my goals, my dreams?
• Can I afford the financial and emotional risks if the business fails?

If you answer “No” more than once or twice, you may not be cut out for entrepreneurship. (You may simply not want to be stressed by working for others— that is not enough!)

Still, you may still be a great candidate for a marketing or management degree, if you would be more comfortable working for a larger company.

But remember, don’t imagine that you’d be more secure working for others. The risks are still there. The risk of launching your own entrepreneurship is great, but is definitely offset by the risk of job stability when employed by strangers.

Worldwide, significant opportunities for self-employment have long existed in professional specialty occupations. In the USA, the largest concentration of self-employed professionals is among writers, artists, entertainers, therapists, computer programmers and techs, and other highly-skilled operations research occupations.

Each of these professions still must manage its own venture, and each depends upon good marketing to thrive and survive.

Enlisting the aid of experts, especially those who have worked with other business owners, will help you analyze your capabilities. That knowledge should reveal gaps between your expectations and the reality of succeeding with a business idea, allowing you to rethink your plan before your livelihood depends on its success.

If you’re a budding entrepreneur, seek advice and guidance from your own government’s business-promotion offices. You’ll need a wealth of local and national information about starting a business.

In the USA, for instance, free information and resources from the U.S. Small Business Administration might help turn your entrepreneurial dream into a successful reality. To find a regional or local Small Business Association office, call toll free, 1(800)827–5722, or visit www.sba.gov/localresources/index.html.

Wherever you live on this great globe of ours, entrepreneurship— with all its personal downsides of uncertainty and stress— can liberate you from a life of dependence, layoffs, and a host of equally terrifying economic unknowns.

PLAN PLAN PLAN.

LEARN LEARN LEARN.

Get the degree that empowers you for success, and begin to create your life adventure!

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