Once your business is out in the open, there will be no shortage of people bombarding you with well-intentioned thoughts and ideas of how you can improve, expand or simply change your business model. The more public-focused your model, the more frequent this input will be, so if you are running a pub or cafe every third customer will want you to hear their input.
These ideas will, of course rage from outlandish, through varying degrees of impractical to useful and sometimes immediate action. The real challenge lies in managing your own though process and avoiding running off at tangents to the detriment of your core business.
One poster - very sensibly - suggested that it was remiss of me not to run courses in the summer as that is when teachers have most time on their hands. The temptation was to make a sudden and determined foray into this market offering, say 2 X 1/2 day courses. Fortunately I was saved by the sheer impracticality of targeting on-holiday teachers and will be concentrating on my original plan to start after the school holidays.
Meanwhile, on my little jotter there are currently 5 ideas for expansion. And the business hasn't started yet.
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