Earlier this evening, I met with a local business consultant. He gave me some interesting questions to think about in regards to starting and building my business and I thought I would share. Some of these questions may be elsewhere but I wanted to share.

1. What is the purpose of your business?
2. What is the key message or phrase to describe your business in one sentence?
3. What is your reason for starting your own business?
4. What are the services that you offer?
5. Can you list three unique benefits that you can provide?
6. Do you have a website, business cards, flyers and other marketing materials for your business?
7. Who are your target customers?
8. Who is your competition?
9. How is your service different than that of your competitor?
10. What is the pricing of your service versus your competition?
11. Will you be making any special offers?
12. How do you plan on advertising or promoting your company?
13. How will you finance company growth?
14. Do you have the management skills/team growth to achieve your goals?

Laura

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Laura Kelly-Pifer