WHY DIDNT SOME ONE TELL ME?

OH MY GOD….Who knew starting your own business would be sooo much work.  I know they say anything worth having is worth working for, but no one told me I would have to put this much work into it.  I honestly came into this kind of naive.  I thought I would just throw some ideas out there and get started doing what I wanted to do.  Who lied to me???  This is a great deal of work.  Now, I am not complaining, by any means, because I know what I want and evidently I have to do what I have to, to get it.  So there is no complaining or whining from me at all.  I just wish someone would have shuck me and said, Child starting your own business isn’t easy.   Why couldn’t someone have done that for me?  In a sense though, I am happy no one did cause I think it would have made me think twice about doing this.  I guess I am happy that I just jumped right in.  I am learning first hand what the difficulties are.  Maybe that’s a good thing and then again, maybe not. 

I for one never really realized how much work actually goes into getting a business started.  Looking in from the outside, people made it seem so easy.  Not even up and running, just starting the wheels in motion has been a good deal of work.  I am currently working on my business plan.  For some reason I believed the stupid notion that as long as I knew what it is I wanted to do, in my head, there was no need for me to put it down on paper; create a business plan.   Some one actually told me that though.  That’s the crazy part.  I didn’t just make that up in my own little head.  Good thing I am surrounded with people who actually want to see me succeed and they told me the truth.  No matter what kind of business you want to start or get involved with, from what I have learned, your best plan is to start with a business plan.  For me, being able to put my ideas down on paper, will give me the space needed to tweak the numbers and ideas as need be.  This business plan thing is a difficult thing though.  Don’t let anyone tell you that it is a “piece of cake” cause it is not.   It is really time consuming and a lot of research.  I have been researching for a good while now and I am no where closed to being done.  You would never guess the information you need to know in order to have a good business plan.  You need to know you competition (of course), market share information, target groups, area statistics such as population and demographics.  Then you have to break those up by race, income, religion, and gender.  WHY!!!

Now you would think being that I technically only want to throw upscale parties for a living, I wouldn’t really need to do any of this business planning stuff.  But I do.   I really do.  And once I found out the whys behind doing it, it all made sense and became clear.  In order to determine if your business will be successful, you have to do the math.  In order to do the math and do it correctly, you have to do the research, no matter how many hours it may take, it has to get done.  And when it comes down to it, the research is the easier part of it all.  Putting it together is a whole other story…which I haven’t gotten to yet, but so I have been told.  I honestly just wished that my business plan would just magically appear….who am I kidding?

When I posted my first entry to this blog, someone asked me, “Why do you want to start this type of business with the way the economy is?”  That question really made me stop and think.  Why would I want to do this with things not looking so bright for the average American?  So I thought about it. 

Who doesn’t want to be entertained?  Who doesn’t want a night out where they could escape from all their worries of the everyday life?  Who doesn’t want to have a good night out, even if once a month, with their girls or their boys?  Who wouldn’t want to see the favorite artist perform in a not so crowded environment?  Who couldn’t enjoy a good a laugh and an opportunity to make new friends?  If you can tell me someone that these don’t apply to, I will rethink it.  But I honestly don’t think that there is anyone out there who wouldn’t want this.

And yes I know money may be tight for a lot of us, but if you think about it, you end up spending money to be entertained every week anyway.  You go to the movies, eat out, have drinks w/ the girls, go to the club, or maybe just go for a drive.  Either which way you look at it, you are spending money. 

So why not spend a little more and get what you pay for and exactly what you want; great entertainment, dinner, dancing, and good company all in one.  You really can’t beat that, now can you?

So I will continue on my journey to improve the nightlife in Orlando, no matter how much work I have to put into it.  From the comments that I have gotten so far, this is really needed.  And I am not going to get everyone all excited about what’s to come, and not go thru with it.  That would suck for all of us.  So it may be some time before I have my first event but make sure to stay tuned because it’s coming.  Just make sure that you are there because you would want to miss it.