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The Startup Stage

This is the point in your business journey where you’ve finished the Startup Stage and you have started your business. The business has gained some traction, but you don’t yet have a large number of clients, market share, or demand for your product or service. This is the stage in your business you might take on too much and end up working with everyone who is keen to work with you, even if they aren’t the right for your business; you say yes to everybody who expresses an interest in your business. This may seem worrying but it is a very normal component of the business procedure.

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The Expected Challenges

A Lot for Little

The Development Stage is one of the most difficult since you undertake a lot of minor things in the hopes of great impacts on the market. Trials and errors should be expected in this stage to grow your business into something long-term viable.

Keeping Structure

You may seem disorganized with your business objectives at this point since you’re trying to cover all bases with your business structure. Since you’re trying to appeal to as many individuals as possible, your marketing messages are often obscure.

Your Business Value

Because it’s tough to make enough money to maintain a thriving business, you may find yourself undervaluing your company because you can’t stand behind the value you provide. It makes it more difficult for you to persuade others to work with or buy from you.

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The Area of Focus

Customer Base

Establishing a customer base and market presence along with tracking and conserving cash flow. Making a profit while in the startup stage is not very likely because you are still trying to build your customer base and come up with a business model that works.

Target Audience

Marketing your business to your target audience by advertising the solutions and new benefits your firm provides should be a priority at this point as well.

Failure is Futile

At this point, failure is not an option, but rather a chance to enhance your company’s essential values. The more you fail early in your business, the easier it is to figure out what you need to do to succeed.

The Plain Truth

Many people believe the Entry Stage to be the most difficult stage of the Business Life Cycle since you are venturing into uncharted terrain, expect the unexpected. Your products or services will be put to the test to flex in response to customer wants and behaviour and the constantly altering market.

The Way Forward

Meeting people, inventing new methods to sell products or services, and constantly putting new ideas into action will take up a lot of your time. During this time expect to constantly adjust your business model to gain a better understanding of the market. The most important thing is that you learn from your mistakes to improve your service or product and get a presence in the market to ensure that you can expand from there.

Be careful not to fall into the trap of over-marketing and under-selling. There is a significant distinction between marketing and sales. Marketing activities are how you raise awareness and interest in your product or brand. The way you turn a prospect into a customer is through sales activity. Marketing is the process of disseminating a message to a large group of people, whereas a sale is an act of eliciting one specific action from one person at a time.

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The Next Step

When you’ve successfully matched a solution with a market and found a strategy to sell your products or service, you know you’ve advanced to the next stage. You are propelling from the Startup Stage to the Growth Stage.

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