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I used to hate rules as a kid. As an entrepreneur, I love them: New Rules for Entrepreneurs Series

I always hated rules as a kid. Rules at school. Rules at home. Rules everywhere. Now that I am grown, I still hate rules but I love learning from other’s mistakes.

So I thought about what I might call it and ironically I came up with the name for this new series in 2009 as “Rules for Entrepreneurs”.

So if you don’t like the term “rules”, think of these as “lessons learned” or “suggested guidelines” that might make you avoid some of the mistakes that I made as an entrepreneur.

And boy did I make my share of mistakes as an entrepreneur. It will be 10 years for me next June as an entrepreneur and I have learned many things the hard way. For every entrepreneur, there is a passion to create something from nothing and see through on a vision that most people don’t believe in, can’t see or just want to kill because they can’t do it themselves.

Still this, umm.. stubbornness or what we will call “determination”, puts us at odds in listening to lots of people who think they know everything and what is best for you. I don’t know what is best for you but if you can see patterns or recognize things that you are doing that might be putting you on the road to mistake city, I ask you to take notice.

This series is for all the entrepreneurs out there that will read some of these rules or lessons and say “I remember doing the same thing” and if they are lucky, they will say “good advice, I am gonna avoid that”. It will cover things like hiring too fast, what not to do with your business card, what your web site should really be saying and managing expenses the right way to name a few.

I will be writing this series here and cross-posting over on our sister site, MySolutionSpot.com. I will be writing the core series in a rapid fire set of posts over the next few weeks and once a month there will be an evaluation of putting this kind of plan into practice and tuning it along the way. In this manner, I hope to engage all of our readers out there to contribute their lessons learned and advice on building a successful marketing plan.

I hope to hear from all of you on rules you have created and lessons you have learned so that all of us might learn something new that might be costly in the future.

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