The Business of Doing Your Business

This is your opportunity to find out the inside story about the business world you are getting into.The next step is completeing the following steps:

Go out to a different market area (example opening a business in Marquette, go to Escanaba).
Talk to business owners with the same business as the one you are working at starting
Find out what it really takes to run that business
How to protect yourself from the same mistakes they made
What the economy is like in that industry
What customers are looking for
Get an understanding of the business.

The more prepared you are the less stressful and more successful your business will be.

Click through the following links to get ideas of questions to ask business owners, what helped them become successful, what caused them to fail, and business planning tips. Click through the links below.

Business Question
Success Stories
Planning Tips

*Be sure to take very detailed notes because you never know what you will use.

Now click the Resources tab to the right