Entrepreneurship at its very basic is a challenging task and it combines challenges that grow you as a rugged businessman from a novice wannabe. But eventually, as an entrepreneur, you learn things and always try to avoid failure.
These are the five basic skills that every entrepreneur should know in order to succeed and keep doing that:
Creative Problem Solving
Find out what customers want without directly asking them.
-Steve Jobs
Successful entrepreneurs are much more likely to ask the customer what problems they have and then find or invent the product that solves the problems. This way the customers do not have to decide whether they need the product, the need has already been established.
Emotional Intelligence
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.
-Donald Trump
Having what is called a high emotional intelligence means that entrepreneurs will be able to read people very well. They seem to have an intuition about what is going to succeed and what is not by seeing how people react in the early stages of product planning and innovation.
A Good Monitoring System
Research, Follow-Up and Repeat.
Entrepreneurs will see when something in society has changed or customer demands are shifting. Generally, successful business people keep in touch with what is happening in the world and will know when the Government is going to create a new regulation. Effective entrepreneurs initiate products and services that respond to new trends and changing conditions.
Market Not Sell
Marketing is image building, selling is a mere part of it.
A successful entrepreneur always focuses on how to market his image and face-value to the customer and get the most in return. Selling happens in between. For an entrepreneur, an establishment should matter more than profits anytime.
Quick Learning
Failing for many different causes is enlightening but for the same one is just stupid.
An entrepreneur is naturally faced with obstacles but where there is a will, there is a way. So, he crosses that eventually. But, also he doesn’t forget to remember the challenge for future references.
