“Get it Right the First Time” Is Not Your Friend.

“Get it Right the First Time” Is Not Your Friend. I agree with this statement but then what it reads to me is far greater than what meets the ordinary eye.

When they say be expansive about your dream is that, if you are a starting entrepreneur you need to create a vision, ie a variety of services and products and have the knowledge of steps that you need to take to making the business work.

let me use "Pancake Making" as an example to see the perspective i am coming from.

Half the time entrepreneurs have a thirst cos they had tasted the pancake in some ladies kitchen. They say i want to have this for breakfast every day; some decide that they want to marry the lady, some say they want to do it themselves. Ok are you willing to pay the lady to show you the tricks? A smart way is to have friends with benefits and no need to pay lol there are very naughty entrepreneurs out there but if you have the skill why not share? When you teach someone you become even more perfect at what you do.

Most entrepreneurs want what they want but have they asked themselves this question?

"can you really be having pancakes every morning?"

The human mind is such that to remain assertive it needs a variety. What i did is i took 7 businesses and push them all at once, so i call them monday, tuesday,........sunday. in pushing them i will find out what day i am best at and then i sell 4 out of 7 and stay with the menu that i like. Before i sell them off i make sure they are perfect for someone to buy.

So back to my breakfast menu : as an entrepreneur you need to have a menu of businesses but look at the type that has different methods but same ingredients this way you wouldn't need to load up your fridge. An entrepreneur needs to be a good chief, making a good soup out of leather after all all na kpomo.

Lets assume you dont have the time nor money to create a menu. The problem is that most entrepreneurs make a mix enough for one pancake even when they had bought the ingredients enough to feed a whole family.

the recipe states that

1 eggs, 50ml of milk, self raising flower 500g, butter/oil.

They also havnt found out how to mix and how to cook it. Now why wouldnt the first pancake work? Never give up until you get that mix and the baking right. Explain to me, how will our economy work if when the students who go to school dont learn business to either support the employer or support themselves? any way let me get to the pancake making business.

As a mom that makes pancakes i know that even with the amount of skills that i have that naughty first one will always stick to the pan. I fry it anyway, i eat it but i dont serve it. Actually that first one is often the sweetest and the rest perfect ones that follow still taste the same but cos my palet has tasted the first every other tastes the same the rest is just to give you energy.

Its always in that first taste, once you get that adrenalin rush you will always want more. Success is in the joy that you made your goal come through. The money comes when you become the master of your trade. When you make your family used to it and they can't stop asking for it because you added Jam or the Lemon Sugar mix, or mince meat filling, or syrup..............hmmmmm you get the taste now? Have i made you want pancakes? This is what promotion advertising is, making you hungry for the flavour.

Many marketers dont know what marketing is about, its about finding out what ingredients are available in the market to make your menu work. Sales is about purchasing what you need to make your mix, pr is about presenting the dish and receiving feedback on who wants to join in the kitchen, promotion is about making your market salivate. Business is fun for me, so i play with it and as for the Financial, Legal based type companies they can sit in their own NUT house, strapped in their white restraint jackets and develop hypertension, while i grove and have a life at the same time. They  tell me i wouldn't survive but hey arnt they having financial crises and asking government to loan them?. Have you seen how kindergartens look like? if it looked like hospitals don't you think our kids will say please take me away from that asylum? Who said that businesses should look like a prison yard? Have you been brainwashed out of creativity and uniqueness of what a brand stands for?

I saw a question posted "why are the paediatric centres in hospitals laid with colourful stuff and for the adults its just plain white/gray walls" i said cos no one likes adults? Never grow up or you will be subjected to a confined area. Remain small but expansive cos when everyone looks up to you they will put you in a straight jacket.

I love my first pancakes. they look like this :) a total mess for a write up but did you find something you enjoyed in it?