A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Your Business Up and Running
Before starting a business, you need to make sure you prepare thoroughly but also realize that things will almost certainly go awry. To run a successful business, you must adapt to changing situations. Whether it’s determining your business structure or crafting a detailed marketing strategy, the workload can quickly pile up.
Rather than spinning your wheels and guessing at where to start, as an expert in the field, AKCS Software Pro Ltd has written down a beginner’s guide to getting your business up and running. This will help give you a bit of a checklist of all of the details a start-up business needs to know.
Getting Started
Hiring a professional: Hiring a professional will save you time, money, and grief. By hiring a professional, you’ll be able to scale quickly without losing your ability to provide great products and excellent customer service.
Keep all documents ready: You will need to keep all important documents such as incorporation documents, bank account info, CRA corporate account information, insurance (property or commercial), lease agreements, WCB information, etc., in proper order. Doing so will ensure that you have them ready when asked for them.
Next Steps
Do the necessary groundwork: Talk to a lawyer and an accountant regarding how to best structure your business, once incorporated, set up bank accounts and credit cards, establish other requirements if your industry requires WCB coverage or insurance.
Persevere: Take each step one at a time and don’t try to do it all in an hour. You may need to plug along. What you get done by the end of the day is more than what you had done at the beginning. Keep plugging!
Advice From The Pros
Do not repeat mistakes: We all make mistakes, and we all think if we could have a do-over, here is what we would do differently. Mistakes cost time and money. Why repeat the same mistakes others have made. This is why it helps to read up about famous and well-established people in your industry.
Maintain good relationships: Surround yourself with trusted advisors, remove the negative people from the outer circle, look at the big picture, set goals, hold yourself accountable, review goals and have a plan that can pivot if need be. It is very rare for someone to plan 100% what will happen in a ten-year time span. However, it does help to be as prepared as you can.
Get a mentor or coach: A business mentor is someone with more entrepreneurial business experience than you who serves as a trusted confidante over an extended period of time, usually free of charge. Your mentor has no ulterior motive. That, combined with their experience and other qualities, creates a good foundation for trust. And as the relationship develops over time, that trust can grow even stronger.
If you are looking for an accounting software trainer and software implementation specialist in Leduc, AB, reach out to me at AKCS Software Pro Ltd. My name is Ann Kurlovich and my company has worked in the accounting industry for over ten years. I have over twenty years of business experience and have worked with businesses in many industries. My role is to help with the change process - whether it is changing software or training new staff.
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