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How To Use
Government Money Club To: Start/Expand
Your Business or Invention
Government Money Club To: Start/Expand
Your Business or Invention
Starting your business is a process that will take weeks, months or even years to complete depending on the kind
of business you want to start and the amount of resources you are starting with. But no matter what kind of business
you wish to start and how much money you have or don't have there are dozens of ways the government can help you.
Here are the videos and sources that are in the Government Money Club to help you fulfill your dream.
STEP 1.
Free Help In Thinking Thru Your Idea
Most people are wrong about their estimates on how much it will cost to start their business.
It is remarkable but your estimate is just as likely to be too high as much as it is too low.
I was talking to a small business start-up expert recently in Chicago who told me that the average
cost of starting a small business in Illinois is about $7,000.
If you have not started a business before YOU WILL NEED ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET, and you can get it FOR FREE. Sure, you can go on to the internet and search for topics like "small business consultants", "help preparing a business plan", or "accounting help" and you will wind up paying thousands of dollars for services and products that you can get for free. The differences between the free ones and the ones that charge a lot of money are:
The differences between the free ones and the ones that charge a lot of money are:
The ones that charge you money don't care how serious you are about your idea or how much
time you are willing to put into your project, they only care if you are prepared to give THEM a lot of money. As long
as they get their money, they have little other motive to ensure that you succeed, unless you are going to give them
more money But they can't count on that. That is why the only thing they count on is you giving them as much money as
soon as possible.
The free ones don't have to depend on your money. Government or non-profit organizations
give them money to perform these services for free. However their time is limited and if they spend a lot of time
trying to help you and you are not willing to put in the work necessary to start a business, that means that someone
else who is more willing to put in the work is deprived of their time.
So the bottom line for using these sources is:
You don't have to know exactly what you want to do, have a lot of money or even any money at all.
You don't even have to know how to spell the word "entrepreneur". But you do have to come in with a
willingness that you will put in the work to help yourself have a successful business.
No good coach wants to work with someone who does not have a strong desire to succeed unless you pay
them a lot of money.
Watch Videos Of Organizations That Offer Free Help For Starting A Business
Incubators Increase Success
Start a Business/Invention
Local Business Grants
Bring Your Business To
Help For Big/Small Businesses
Money To Live On
Review the following Club Sources to locate organizations in your area that will help you think
thru your business (or non-profit) idea:
STEP 2.
But Where Are The Grants?
OK, OK. I know. You want to know if there are grants for businesses. No matter what anyone tells you the real answer is definitely YES. They just may not be in the obvious places and sometimes they are not even called Grants. There are hundreds and even thousands of them scattered all around the country and they all have different requirements and applications. They are given out by federal and local governments, quasi-government organizations as well as non-profit organizations.
That is why the most important thing to do before you start looking for grants, or loans, loan guarantees, and venture capital, is before you start, have your idea developed as much as possible and have a good sense of what might be possible based on your idea and your skill level. STEP #1 will do this for you in the most important way and will save you countless hours in going in circles and missed opportunities.Once you start looking for money you will hear a lot of conflicting information from all different kinds of experts. Some will be right some will be wrong but all of them will be limited in their knowledge, and that includes us. The world of information is so big, the number of sources keeps changing so fast no one person knows everything. We are all carrying around just one piece of a big puzzle that you as an entrepreneur have to put together and discover what is best for you.
I have been studying money programs for over 30 years. What I've learned over this time is that, even though I probably know more than most anyone else in the world about government money programs, the number of opportunities out there is so large and changes happen so fast I struggle every day to ask the right questions to find out what is available.Watch Videos Of Organizations That Offer Money For Your Business.
Landfill Gas Developer Learns Grants
Green Bag Lunch Entrepreneurs
Non-Profit Sells Donated Materials
Money To Train Your Employees
Train Yourself/Employees
Green Roof for Money & Veggies
Help for Starting A Business In
From $200 To 72,000 Customers
How To Sell To Local Govt
Start Reviewing Club Sources for finding financing and other help for your business:
Start or Expand a Business
Money To Start Any Business
State Money And Help For Your Business
Money For Low Income and Bad Credit
Help For Women Entrepreneurs
City and County Money To Start A Business
Venture Capital
Banks Friendly To Small Business
Money To Start A Business If You Are A Minority
Federal Sources of Business Money
Free Business Help and Money For Disabled
Money and Help For Veterans to Start A Business
More Business Help For Women, Minorities, Disabled and Veterans
Grants For The IRS To Help Your Business
Sell Your Product or Service Overseas
Who Says There Are No Grants For Business
Non-Profits Have Money For Businesses
Money To Start Any Business
State Money And Help For Your Business
Money For Low Income and Bad Credit
Help For Women Entrepreneurs
City and County Money To Start A Business
Venture Capital
Banks Friendly To Small Business
Money To Start A Business If You Are A Minority
Federal Sources of Business Money
Free Business Help and Money For Disabled
Money and Help For Veterans to Start A Business
More Business Help For Women, Minorities, Disabled and Veterans
Grants For The IRS To Help Your Business
Sell Your Product or Service Overseas
Who Says There Are No Grants For Business
Non-Profits Have Money For Businesses
STEP 3.
More Than One Way To Implement Your Business Idea
No matter how good your idea is you will always run into road blocks and obstacles.
This happens in every aspect of life. Success in anything is determined by how you deal
with those obstacles.The easiest thing to do is to give up. Those who give up are the people
who don't do much. The people who do things in life are those that look at obstacles as simply
a challenge that you have to spend time figuring out "How To Go Around It", "Go Through It", or "Go Over It".
Here are a few ideas that may get you started on thinking of other ways to accomplishing your dreams.
See How Obama's Stimulus Package Can Help Your Business
What's In Obama's Stimulus Package For You
This $787 Billion package is the biggest opportunity that this country has to offer today.
In these tough economic times, the people who get this money will be the few people in America that will be spending money
on projects or ideas. Start leaning how you can tap into this opportunity to help you start a business, get a contact or
sub-contract or just get a job.
What Are The Best Opportunities In A Lousy Economy
If your idea is not gaining traction it may be a good time to start re-evaluating and try
to figure out how you can make your idea be a part of something that will be growing in the
world so that you will be part of the wave when it starts booming. A lot of success stories
are not because of brilliance or thoughtful planning but because someone was at the right place
at the right time. You can start positioning your business to be part of something that has a high
likelihood of booming in the near futures so that YOU can be in the right place at the right.
There is always a lot more room for new entrepreneurs in areas that are growing than in areas that are
static or shrinking. For example, it may be a bad place in time if you have an idea to sell a product to Wall
Street which is collapsing versus the Green Economy which seems to be getting ready to boom.
Great Opportunities In A Lousy Economy
When To Invest In Yourself
The Best Way To Get Sales For Your Business
Advertising Does Not Have To Cost A Lot Of Money
The reason a lot of new businesses fail is because they don't have customers
or they pay too much to get customers. Remember those Dot Com businesses in the 90s? They were paying $3 million
or more for Super Bowl ads and getting only $1 million in business from it. That's how you go out of business.
Advertising can be very risky, but our society has so much media now there are plenty of ways to get NO RISK advertising
or advertising at BIG DISCOUNTS.
See How You Can Do Your Business With A Lot Less Money
hook up with an existing business as a subsidiary instead of starting your own,
become a distributor of a product instead of a manufacturer
start on the web instead of a building or office
start selling a service instead of a product
The important thing in life is not having the perfect business to run right now but to continually take steps to go TOWARDS something you like and away from what you don't like.
Gov't Contracts Are Better Than Grants For Your Business
Sure there are grants for businesses, but they are going to take some work finding the right one and applying.
But the bigger problem with grants is that once you find one place to apply and you get it, you are going to have
to find another place to get another one. It is difficult for an organization to keep giving you a grant over
and over again. Most grants are there to get your started and not to sustain you. But what can sustain you,
and what you can live on over and over again is a contract. The government (federal, state and local) buys most
anything you can think of. Everything from broom handles to massage therapists. I even saw where the government
spent $30,000 on a freelance priest. My sister frames art for the government in her garage in the middle of
Virginia and does over $1 million worth of business with the government all through government contracts.
Getting A Government Contract
No Grants? Get A Contract!
"It is not going to be easy, but help is out there for those who really want to do something in life and contribute
to our society. Your job is to contribute as much, or more, of yourself to the process as you expect to get back."
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