Habits of employees for Startups
Every day is more common this tendency of making the hysteric of your chief dumped to begin to be “a your own chief” (phrase much used in business systems like networking or multilevel) and surely we all have the aspiration and the firm intention of happening from Andy Sachs to Miranda Priestly (the Devil wears Prada); the process in general does not turn out to be so glamorous, in fact The Castaway looks alike a little more to the movie; anyone that is your motivation, it is already the constant unemployment, that your chief takes the recognition of your insomnia or that you are tired of that your popes ask you that when et house anger, having the title of “entrepreneur“ is not a simple thing; in spite of it I have noticed that there are certain habits of the personnel that it is, what concerns me, the success of the big companies, with the variable that its proprietors do not realize these habits, but since like new entrepreneur you are a proprietor, an employee, messenger, book-keeper and the others, the following aspects you might work with your new business:
a) To have a schedule
In most of entrepreneurs that I meet, its biggest gratification is not the clients’ quantity that they invoiced last month, it is the delight of being able to get up when they want, to go out, to eat, to sleep and other plans that could appear in the way; the time freedom to do what takes revenge them in desire is its biggest award like entrepreneurs (although its pocket instead of having dollars, has chocolate coins). When I look at the big companies and see to the executive high places that gain 10 times the cost of the Iphone of my sleep, I see that its schedules, they begin about 6 a.m. am and end about 11:00 pm; this bears to that they have very few social life, the last holiday that they enjoyed was its first marriage and they do not remember with clarity if its parents are still alive; it is for it that to establish a schedule to devote yourself only and exclusively to your project is so important, not only so that you even are part of your genealogical tree of your family, but also so that you dedicate more approach time to the different current tendencies of reception of new clients and fidelización of those who are already with you, also, if we look at experiences of successful persons, we will be able to notice that these days 6am-11pm will be only for a short period of a few years, and the result and profit will be much major in the future.
b) keep a salary (for your project)
whether you’re employed or not, your project, like a newly born baby, need money, don’t need to sell your body to generate great income and be able to hold all the accessories available for your new baby, but if you must get revenue from somewhere to give you the nutrition you need to grow your idea and will become something bigger and stronger; understandable is that to the call you an entrepreneur all you look like Tony Stark (the version where it is only in the middle of the dunes and with a device attached to the chest which is what prevents to die) but it is obvious that you need money, therefore, if these employee, dedicate yourself to your project in time that are out of the office and invest what you earn on it you do not give up all the money that you receive when your idea is just beginning; and if you’re not working, offer!, if you can paint walls, do it!, and if you don’t do anything can look at tutorials whatever you want on youtube, practice them and promote yourself with your closest acquaintances, every penny counts, both for you and for your business.
C) The Friday night are not always party night
End of a week busy, late afternoon, you gave a huge project and five minutes before leaving, your manager asks you to get you to review what delivered, and is in that exact moment when you hate infinitely to that be called head by that you are not going to reach to reach the party this evening; unless you’re manager of performing artists or your business is related to the world of Latin entertainment, believe me that the leave on a Friday party with your amig@s will not earn you new customers; some time I was sufficiently innocent as to believe in this utopia , until I understood that in the holidays, the last thing Is thought to be in business and to make matters worse, those who were moderately interested in your offer, when dissipates the alcohol is also the interest shown, and let us not forget the economic expense which it entails; because in the best of cases that you invite the tragus, the transfer run for your account; that is why to be independent, you must be careful with the feasts to the that go, since economic expenditure and energy that you must invest in what eventually will give you money.
d) deliver weekly reports
we hate having to make blessed weekly reports, where we expose a fastidiosisima version of our tasks and objectives we do during the week, a feedback of what we have already been implemented every day; but this time this report is for ourselves; it is to sit down and see what were our objectives fulfilled, and which were pending with our project , this helps realize us if our profession of entrepreneurs is focused to go out with our friends or if the Alamo we are putting on our business; the weekly report gives us a detailed idea that we did well, we did poorly and that can be saved.
We must take into account that our project is like a big company in micro version, and since we still don’t have income to pay to each of our future employees, we must perform the functions of all departments in one only, if we skipped the Messenger, our customer service you will have problems and therefore we will have our first complaints and suggestions; if we leave aside the Secretariat we confuse our agenda and we will lose our potential customer, being an entrepreneur is not being free (still), you must start with the moorings of the routine of an employee (which you already know to do perfectly), with the difference that each gain will not be for a third party, if not for you
