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Article #139: Business Opportunity - becoming an Independent Contractor

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A business opportunity is your own and lifestyle.
special idea for a product or service you Age:
can sell successfully. In order to find The baby boomers are aging. In the 80s,
your own niche as an entrepreneur, there the baby boomers created a bulge in the
are a few important things to consider. population in the age category of 35 to
First, you should analyze the population 44. In the 90s, the baby boomers will be
changes and shifts in your local 45 to 54 years old. What impact will this
community that create market have on the market? Most baby boomers
opportunities. In addition, you should have already purchased the basics for
carefully consider your own interests, their home. In the 90s, if they buy
activities, and abilities. This last part anything for their home, they are looking
is especially important. Development of a for quality. In addition, the aging baby
product or service that will sell boomers will probably increase the demand
requires creativity and knowledge, so for health care service.
it's best to draw your ideas from that The baby boomers produced a shadow baby
which you know best. boom, which includes current middle
The people a business serves are its school students. In the 90s, the children
market. Your market, for example, might of the baby boomers ranged in age from
be your friends, neighbors, classmates at toddlers to college students. Although
school, or colleagues at your current these children represent a smaller hump
job. What might these people want to buy? in the population than the baby boomers,
No one knows the answer better than you many of them have more material
do. possessions than their parents did at the
You might not realize it yet, but you same age. For example, children of baby
have unique knowledge that will help you boomers have more technological equipment
to develop a business idea. Your everyday than their parents did.
life is constantly providing information There are more elderly in the population
about market opportunities: What do your than ever before. They need products and
friends like? What do your parents do on services that help them to live full
weekends? What are some problems in your lives. It is no wonder that the home
community? Answers to these questions health care industry and retirement
might lead you to a business opportunity. housing is booming.
The great thing about entrepreneurship is Lifestyles:
that your success is not limited by your With the increase in dual career
abilities or education. You should never families, time is very important. Dual
feel that you are not good enough, or career families are buying many products
creative enough, or smart enough to and services to help them save time
succeed. running the household. House cleaning
The goal of an entrepreneur is to figure services, day care centers, and lawn care
out what he or she can sell that services are all becoming more popular.
consumers need to buy. The most important So are fast-food restaurants,
thing an entrepreneur needs for success particularly those that prepare entire
is a vision of what consumers need. "home-style" meals for take-out. Think
Sometimes entrepreneurs can imagine, or about the young entrepreneur we mentioned
envision a need that other people don't above, who knows a lot about cooking and
see immediately. Think about some of the wants to start a catering business. She
things we take for granted today, like might decide to target her service to
televisions. The companies that invented working families, providing nutritional
and marketed the first televisions meals for them to share.
imagined an unprecedented home Americans are becoming increasingly
entertainment system. Before then, most concerned about the environment and the
families were happy with their radios, importance of recycling. Many products
and didn't feel a specific need for a new come with labels that indicate if they or
form of entertainment. But as you know, their packaging was produced in an
today most families have televisions - to environmentally-friendly manner. Other
the point where we almost feel like we trends we might observe include interest
"need" them. Another example: computer in health and fitness, and an interest in
entrepreneurs saw a future with computers the Internet and telecommunications.
in every family's home well before people You can turn into an entrepreneur by
could imagine using a computer regularly. turning everyday experiences into
Changes in the business environment business opportunities. Learn to look at
create opportunities for entrepreneurs. life differently: If something is
Successful new businesses are usually inconvenient or troublesome, imagine a
created to meet a specific need in the solution... and there's a business
society. So, what does society, or the opportunity. If you use a product in a
market, need? Let's start by looking at new way, you could redesign it ... and
shifts in the general population's age there's a business opportunity.






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