May 24, 2012

8 Ways to Reduce Your Risks When Starting a Business

Risks and entrepreneurship are like two peas in a pod: they go hand-in-hand together. The key is for the small business owner to anticipate the risks and understand what could possibly go wrong. It’s not always easy to do, but only by anticipating the things that could go wrong could the business owner properly plan for it.


So what could go wrong? Plenty! The toy you’ve designed may prove to be choking hazard, and your packaging did not properly state this resulting in a lawsuit from a customer.

It could be an employee stealing from your restaurant’s cash register. The workers of your landscaping business may have hit on the client’s underground water pipe, resulting in water damage to the property. Or horrors, your home office or store may catch fire, along with it all your inventory, equipment, supplies and data.

And then, there’s the mother of all risks: the business could fail. Despite your best efforts, the market may be too small or you simply do not have the resources needed to make the business work.

Watch the video to get ideas on how to reduce your risks when starting a business. Read the article How to Reduce Your Risks When Starting a Business

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About Isabel Isidro

Isabel Isidro is the co-founder of PowerHomeBiz.com. A mom of three boys, avid vintage postcard collector, frustrated scrapbooker, she also manages WomenHomeBusiness.com and LearningfromBigBoys.com. Follow her on Twitter and connect with her on Google +


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  1. Online Transcription Services says:

    Really Excellent Article..

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  2. Transcription Services says:

    business is highway road we have to move fast at the same have to move very very safely …. Excellent Article ..

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  3. Risk is always there in a business. Only thing required is how to minimize it and maximize growth potentials.Risk can be of any types. So we must be careful always to prevent it. Nice post.

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  4. Krishika says:

    Hi,

    I have been working to start an fashion accessories export business (www.krishikafashion.com)! I have set up a site and read about SEO and believe it is SEO compliant! But for the last 3 months I have seen zero organic traffic!

    I have a full-time day job and can’t do sales in the traditional way of going out to look for customers! My model was around generating leads online.

    I would appreciate any tips that you can provide to help me generating organic traffic!

    Thanks,
    Krishika

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  5. This is a good reminder to all of us, as I believe that starting a new business requires capital to be invested, then we should take into a consideration on how to reduce risks when starting and running a business. Thanks a lot for sharing. I guess I need to watch the video :)

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  6. Your heading states 8 ways to reduce risk when starting a business while in the blog post itself you only mentioned three.

    Maybe i need to watch your video, having a hard time opening it, i guess network problem.

    Well, the mother of all risk is something a lot of young people are scared. Last year i wrote a hub about it and from the response i got, i became dawn on me that its even more terrible than i think.

    Just want to tell every body, life itself is risk, not taking risk itself is riskier.

    John Benjamin

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