Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Coming Up With Innovative Ideas

Coming up with ideas is the main problem in entrepreneurship. It's easy to act upon an idea and set up the business, but you need that initial idea to start from. Ideas come from your everyday life. When you least expect it. It is very hard to force a good idea. Try thinking of a product or service to make life and everyday activities easier. Once you figure that out, find out if there's a market for it. Then find out if people will buy the product or sign up for the service. You have to see if there is an actual need for it.

I highly recommend buying a notepad. (a smaller sized one would be best, or a handheld device if you have one.) In this notepad you will write down EVERYTHING! Every idea you come up with, whether its a website, a food dish, a video game idea, movie plot, literally anything, WRITE IT DOWN. Record the date in every entry. You can even draw little sketches or ideas for titles or names. As you get more comfortable with writing down your ideas, you will notice they get more and more detailed and developed. You may come up with ten ideas one day or no ideas for two weeks. Creativity, for me at least, sometimes comes in spurts. I believe everyone has the capability to come up with incredibly innovative and successful ideas, they just have to be inspired. Once you feel you have enough good ideas that you're ready to chose which you will act upon, think of the one you are most passionate about. Choose the idea that you could work on initially with no pay. The idea where you work on it because you love what you're doing and you are happy when you are doing it. Of course all work is not fun and you will not love all of it, but if you are working on something you love it makes it all a lot easier to work on.

Thanks for reading guys, hopes this helps, more to come soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have to disagree with your suggestion of using a handheld device to take notes. Having invested a lot of money into a PDA that now collects dust (and was only used for less than a week), I can tell you that a pen and notepad are a much better method for keeping notes!

A-lax said...

Ill take it if you dont want it! :)
thanks for the comment!