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Business is an activity which carried out by a person and groups of people (organizations) that creates value (create value) through the creation of goods and services (create of good and services) in order to meet the needs of the community and make a profit through the transaction. The meaning of Business Environment is all factors that are beyond the reach of the company that could lead to an opportunity or a threat.

Business Environment Factors: Micro Business Environment is the actors that are directly related to the environment, which affect the company. Macro Environment (General Environment) is the forces that arise and are beyond the reach and usually separated from the operational situation of the company.

Macro environment consists of: Economic Factors, which needs to be analyzed: economic cycle, inflation and deflation tendencies, monetary policy and payments balance. Demographic factors, which consisting of: population changes will affect on demand, age structure changes will affect the product distribution according to the age changes. Income distribution and unemployment rates, Geographical factors are also important to be notice by the strategy planners in order to determine opportunities and threats.

Technological factors: Technological change had an influence on the company’s development. Governmental factors, policy changes may represent an opportunity as well as can also be barriers / threats to the company. Social Factors are the habits and values of the community, especially customers and employees.

Doubt or anxiety is an attitude that sometimes can lose our best opportunity in life. And sometimes that opportunity only came once. There is nothing wrong to be act carefully when we got something that is unusual. But should we always be tied in hesitant for taking big important decisions? Do we have to always cancel the challenge which is basically become a certain way that we have to go through? Our steps to move forward often stalled only because too many people comment negatively.

In fact, most of them can only provide comment. It is true that learn from other people’s failure is a “standard formula” for success. But you should remember that many failures are also caused by inability to be a patience person. A wise step to do is certainly looking for information about how to become a successful person as much as possible.

So that it becomes a powerful energy and prevent negative attitudes that make us hesitate to move on. Avoid for keeping many unreasonable skeptical and suspicious feelings. Be optimist; make sure that we are on a good and right track, goodness and success.

Idea is the earliest and fun part of a business process, especially if the idea is unique. Every day new ideas are emerge. To get it, try to exchange ideas and think out of the box. There are always something for the potential of a new product, a new way to sell and a new way of serving the customer.

Always prepare a media to write down the ideas that you get, from a piece of paper, mobile phones or PDA because you never know when the best ideas will emerge. Look at the problems around you, open your ears and eyes. When you hear people complain, do not just agree with them, ask yourself instead, can you provide a solution with a product or service? This may be the beginning of your small business or continuance for your larger business.

One way to make money in good or bad times is to discover something that people like or dislike and do something about this for them. Ideas can be seen as crystal clear for us and clear as a mud for others. It can be something fun as well as can be frustrated.

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Some of the things below are meant to assess whether your business idea is worth enough to be realize. Having an idea alone is not enough, there are many entrepreneurs who are afraid to expose their creative business idea to the others because they are afraid that someone could steal the idea. Many of them are also told that their creative business idea was stolen.

Actually, it is okay that someone do not tell his idea. But you must remember that creative business idea is only an idea, nothing more. Creative business idea is not a business. I have a friend that always have plenty of creative business ideas. But it does not mean that he can do it all. The key is implementation.

Building a business needs a hard work, patience and good financial management. Do not get too focused on a new business idea to become succeed. Sometimes good and profitable business comes from a small and simple business idea. Maybe it’s true that Bill Gates is the one who create and popularize the windows operating system that is user friendly.

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