Day 6: OPERATION: Create Your Own Path
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Jenny Theuerkauf
Little Bean Designs
Jenny Theuerkauf
Little Bean Designs
The weekend has arrived and with it, day six of Operation: Create Your Own Path!
As part of this event, we have asked all of our featured military spouse business owners to share their best advice to anyone who might be considering starting their own business. And we've combined their words of wisdsom with a little bit of great advice from a small business expert.
Today's advice...be passionate!
Lareece Long
Life Within
"Passion pays off!
Do you have passion? Are you truly passionate about the business you are pursuing? The passion is all you will have left when you encounter hurdles, road blocks, and doubt. It is the passion that will help you against all odds. If the business is truly your passion, you could engage in the business all day every day, my advice is to “Never Quit” on yourself."
Marc Alberto
Hiscox USA
Starting a small business is a risky venture. It takes resource, time and energy to nurture your startup into a viable and profitable venture. It’s not a nine-to-five job. You live and breath your startup and it’s on your mind both day and night. Everywhere you turn you’re looking for ideas on how to improve your business and planning your next steps. That’s why it’s important to follow your passion.
When I look back on the path that led me to Hiscox, there’s a common theme that’s always been there – it’s entrepreneurship. One of my most vivid memories from high school was my entrepreneurship class. At that time music was a big part of my life, especially playing guitar. I remember creating a business plan for a guitar shop for my final project. I modeled it after the local music shop, but added features to cater to the specific needs of guitarists.
Following my entrepreneurship class, I launched Ball of Fire Ska Zine with two of my high school friends. We focused on a small niche within the music industry and created content by interviewing bands at concerts, reviewing CDs and keeping up on industry trends. We worked with small record labels to advertise in our magazine which was distributed for free at local concerts. It was a ton of work and we were never able to sell enough advertisements to fully cover our publishing costs, but our passion for music pushed us to carry on.
The one trait small business owners seem to have in common is that they’re passionate about what they do. It’s that passion that drives them towards success and helps them overcome the daily obstacles they face as small business owners. When your business and your passion align great things happen. No longer is work ‘just a job’ and instead of the days dragging on, you find there’s never enough time in the day. Passion fuels the entrepreneurial fire and pushes you to greater heights. It’s passion that pushes the entrepreneur to success.
At Hiscox, we’re passionate about small business insurance. That’s why we’re reinventing the way small business owners purchase insurance by offering liability insurance such as professional liability and general liability direct and online.
Starting a small business is a risky venture. It takes resource, time and energy to nurture your startup into a viable and profitable venture. It’s not a nine-to-five job. You live and breath your startup and it’s on your mind both day and night. Everywhere you turn you’re looking for ideas on how to improve your business and planning your next steps. That’s why it’s important to follow your passion.
When I look back on the path that led me to Hiscox, there’s a common theme that’s always been there – it’s entrepreneurship. One of my most vivid memories from high school was my entrepreneurship class. At that time music was a big part of my life, especially playing guitar. I remember creating a business plan for a guitar shop for my final project. I modeled it after the local music shop, but added features to cater to the specific needs of guitarists.
Following my entrepreneurship class, I launched Ball of Fire Ska Zine with two of my high school friends. We focused on a small niche within the music industry and created content by interviewing bands at concerts, reviewing CDs and keeping up on industry trends. We worked with small record labels to advertise in our magazine which was distributed for free at local concerts. It was a ton of work and we were never able to sell enough advertisements to fully cover our publishing costs, but our passion for music pushed us to carry on.
The one trait small business owners seem to have in common is that they’re passionate about what they do. It’s that passion that drives them towards success and helps them overcome the daily obstacles they face as small business owners. When your business and your passion align great things happen. No longer is work ‘just a job’ and instead of the days dragging on, you find there’s never enough time in the day. Passion fuels the entrepreneurial fire and pushes you to greater heights. It’s passion that pushes the entrepreneur to success.
At Hiscox, we’re passionate about small business insurance. That’s why we’re reinventing the way small business owners purchase insurance by offering liability insurance such as professional liability and general liability direct and online.
- See more at: /blog/with-small-business-comes-passion/#sthash.2q6Bphgu.dpufStarting a small business is a risky venture. It takes resource, time and energy to nurture your startup into a viable and profitable venture. It’s not a nine-to-five job. You live and breath your startup and it’s on your mind both day and night. Everywhere you turn you’re looking for ideas on how to improve your business and planning your next steps. That’s why it’s important to follow your passion.
When I look back on the path that led me to Hiscox, there’s a common theme that’s always been there – it’s entrepreneurship. One of my most vivid memories from high school was my entrepreneurship class. At that time music was a big part of my life, especially playing guitar. I remember creating a business plan for a guitar shop for my final project. I modeled it after the local music shop, but added features to cater to the specific needs of guitarists.
Following my entrepreneurship class, I launched Ball of Fire Ska Zine with two of my high school friends. We focused on a small niche within the music industry and created content by interviewing bands at concerts, reviewing CDs and keeping up on industry trends. We worked with small record labels to advertise in our magazine which was distributed for free at local concerts. It was a ton of work and we were never able to sell enough advertisements to fully cover our publishing costs, but our passion for music pushed us to carry on.
The one trait small business owners seem to have in common is that they’re passionate about what they do. It’s that passion that drives them towards success and helps them overcome the daily obstacles they face as small business owners. When your business and your passion align great things happen. No longer is work ‘just a job’ and instead of the days dragging on, you find there’s never enough time in the day. Passion fuels the entrepreneurial fire and pushes you to greater heights. It’s passion that pushes the entrepreneur to success.
At Hiscox, we’re passionate about small business insurance. That’s why we’re reinventing the way small business owners purchase insurance by offering liability insurance such as professional liability and general liability direct and online.
- See more at: /blog/with-small-business-comes-passion/#sthash.2q6Bphgu.dpuf