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Title: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Rruchi man on June 28, 2024, 11:28:35 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bitterguy28 on June 29, 2024, 12:51:47 PM
Both have their own difficulties mate because like me that have had a business once  i happen to experience them both .


Start up -  the main problem in this part is how to lure costumers that i believe advertising is needed and of course the product you are selling needs to be authentic and legit
to make your costumers coming back and making them regular in your business.


Keep the business Going -  in this part you should maintain what is the quality over quantity , this will assure your costumer to continue ordering because same product from the beginning .
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Sim_card on June 29, 2024, 04:27:15 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Start up should be the most difficult because to get the customers is the first thing and you need to make your price look attractive. Also the area where the business is located matters alot too, because if it  is in a busy environment, definitely you will get the customers. Keeping them is easy to me, because you need to have a good customer relationship with them so that they will be the one to tell you where you are lacking behind for you to improve.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Dr.Bitcoin_Strange on June 29, 2024, 09:59:10 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Start up should be the most difficult because to get the customers is the first thing and you need to make your price look attractive. Also the area where the business is located matters alot too, because if it  is in a busy environment, definitely you will get the customers. Keeping them is easy to me, because you need to have a good customer relationship with them so that they will be the one to tell you where you are lacking behind for you to improve.

You are completely right, that is where majority of entrepreneurs are lacking, they think once they have the money to start up a business, they will start having customers and making sales, forgetting Rome wasn't built in a day, it takes time before they can actualizing their dreams on how the business will be, so just as you said, they will have to make things easier and affordable for people and to also attract more customers by not selling their goods costly and also location really matters in a business, it determines on how the business will turn out to be,. So choosing a right location for a particular business is also good but most people don't know that and some people find it hard to locate a good place suitable for a business to hold.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Rruchi man on June 29, 2024, 11:54:54 PM
You are completely right, that is where majority of entrepreneurs are lacking, they think once they have the money to start up a business, they will start having customers and making sales, forgetting Rome wasn't built in a day, it takes time before they can actualizing their dreams on how the business will be,
Don't you think getting customers for some entrepreneurs who are really starting up with some good amount of money and popularity may not be a problem because if they invest heavily in marketing they would have the proper customers that they want?

they will have to make things easier and affordable for people and to also attract more customers by not selling their goods costly
The target for some entrepreneurs are not people who are low income earners, so some entrepreneurs do not actually have to make things affordable for everyone because they have a specific income group that they focusing on. Some individuals will only buy expensive products and patronize expensive service because they consider it luxury.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bee on July 01, 2024, 11:14:36 AM
I think both are part of the same whole, the business must always run as if it were just starting out. Failure is more often due to slowly bad internal management while your business starts to grow. It can be from the company's finances (for example reducing the allocation of capital for personal finances), structural (trusted people who betray), product or service quality (reducing quality because of maintaining prices, competition), etc.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bisdak40 on July 14, 2024, 04:51:18 PM
I think it depends on the business and its situation. Starting a business can be difficult at first because you need the capital to start the business, and conduct a business plan to ensure the business is marketable. The marketing but for me the hardest part is keeping the business going because of the completion where others offer cheap and better products or services than you then you will lose your customers it is hard to maintain the customers if there are many competitors. You don't have an edge on your products or services to stand out.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bitterguy28 on July 18, 2024, 03:21:46 PM
I think both are part of the same whole, the business must always run as if it were just starting out. Failure is more often due to slowly bad internal management while your business starts to grow. It can be from the company's finances (for example reducing the allocation of capital for personal finances), structural (trusted people who betray), product or service quality (reducing quality because of maintaining prices, competition), etc.
This is the problem about other Business owners that they become confident when their business grows high ,
sometimes not even paying attention to upgrading and updating that causes the business eventually fall and ending to be closure , there are so many like this in my location that i observed suffers the same thing.
always provide new things and offers to your costumers to continue growing business.
I think it depends on the business and its situation. Starting a business can be difficult at first because you need the capital to start the business, and conduct a business plan to ensure the business is marketable. The marketing but for me the hardest part is keeping the business going because of the completion where others offer cheap and better products or services than you then you will lose your customers it is hard to maintain the customers if there are many competitors. You don't have an edge on your products or services to stand out.
Start up always the hard thing but also maintaining is same as hard of haw started.

costumers always looking for new , not unless this is about food business that costumers will love you for what you are providing like what it is started.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Sim_card on July 27, 2024, 06:53:30 PM
I think it depends on the business and its situation. Starting a business can be difficult at first because you need the capital to start the business, and conduct a business plan to ensure the business is marketable. The marketing but for me the hardest part is keeping the business going because of the completion where others offer cheap and better products or services than you then you will lose your customers it is hard to maintain the customers if there are many competitors. You don't have an edge on your products or services to stand out.
Keeping the business going should be the easiest because you don't need much to sacrifice and I don't see competition as a problem because you are in the market where competition is important for the improvement of your products or business. This is why you will come up with your own strategy that will keep you in the market and you should be flexible to tweak to whatever changes the business needs for a better customer service. Having good relationship with your customers will also determine how successful you will be. A lot of people have business ideas in them or will I say the skill of running a running business but they lack finance to start the business. Starting up a business is the hardest.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Crwth on July 27, 2024, 07:00:13 PM
I think, if you have a good product to sell and it’s worth people buying, It’s not going to be a problem to keep those customers. It’s harder to find new customers if that’s the case.

If you have a bad product it would be easier To find customers, but probably hard to retain one because of the poor product.

 It all depends in my opinion And it will be different for different industries, but as long as you put in the hard work, I think you could make it.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: DragonF on August 12, 2024, 03:28:36 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

I believe starting up is more difficult. One of the challenges in business is gaining the trust of customers. Remember that prior to the establishment of your business, these individuals were patronizing other business owners in the same line of business as you, so diverting them to your business will require a significant amount of effort.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bisdak40 on August 16, 2024, 03:52:16 PM
I think it depends on the business and its situation. Starting a business can be difficult at first because you need the capital to start the business, and conduct a business plan to ensure the business is marketable. The marketing but for me the hardest part is keeping the business going because of the completion where others offer cheap and better products or services than you then you will lose your customers it is hard to maintain the customers if there are many competitors. You don't have an edge on your products or services to stand out.
Keeping the business going should be the easiest because you don't need much to sacrifice and I don't see competition as a problem because you are in the market where competition is important for the improvement of your products or business. This is why you will come up with your own strategy that will keep you in the market and you should be flexible to tweak to whatever changes the business needs for a better customer service. Having good relationship with your customers will also determine how successful you will be. A lot of people have business ideas in them or will I say the skill of running a running business but they lack finance to start the business. Starting up a business is the hardest.
It depends on what business you will start because some businesses may need a larger initial outlay of funds or resources. At the same time, others can be managed with limited funds. The key is to adjust your plan according to the business and be prepared for the particular difficulties that that business faces.

Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Aanuoluwatofunmi on August 19, 2024, 05:54:51 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

The hardest to achieve is in maintain the running of a business, many will be eager and desperate to start a business but then they are not having the idea of how to effectively manage the business in other to keep it running, that is why today we discover that in the society, there are lots of failed attempts on business establishments because it is very easy to start doing something but to maintain it existence is the difficult task to do.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Emmanuel1 on October 01, 2024, 06:00:40 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
It depends on the entrepreneur’s strengths and the specific industry. For some, starting the business is harder due to the many unknowns and the difficulty of building from scratch. For others, scaling and managing growth post-startup is more challenging due to complexities in managing finances, operations, and human resources at a larger scale. But for me,starting a business is not really difficult,anyone can start up a business, but the difficult part of a business is after startup, is keeping the business to run at least for one or two years after starting the business.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: The transformer on October 02, 2024, 08:01:16 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Start up should be the most difficult because to get the customers is the first thing and you need to make your price look attractive. Also the area where the business is located matters alot too, because if it  is in a busy environment, definitely you will get the customers. Keeping them is easy to me, because you need to have a good customer relationship with them so that they will be the one to tell you where you are lacking behind for you to improve.

You are completely right, that is where majority of entrepreneurs are lacking, they think once they have the money to start up a business, they will start having customers and making sales, forgetting Rome wasn't built in a day, it takes time before they can actualizing their dreams on how the business will be, so just as you said, they will have to make things easier and affordable for people and to also attract more customers by not selling their goods costly and also location really matters in a business, it determines on how the business will turn out to be,. So choosing a right location for a particular business is also good but most people don't know that and some people find it hard to locate a good place suitable for a business to hold.


   conjunction to all the above. I think starting up a business in the first place is harder, in as much as both start-up and up keep is hard.
The stress behind starting up a business starts even before starting the business. Except proper planning is not done where a business is lunched anywhere. Doing all the possible business analysis, starting and then trying to get customers are all around startup which appears hardest than keeping the customers you have already.

Where keeping customers are usually a serious problem is in boom babies that started and business begin to flourish. By such,
Most business owners finally forget the importance of customers out of pride and arrogance. At times like this, some customers will only patronize based on monopoly.


Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: LogitechMouse on October 02, 2024, 11:37:29 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Both have difficulties, but I believe the start-up is way harder than keeping the business going.

What I believe is that, in starting up a business, you will experience lots of failures that could crush your confidence. You will experience lots of mistakes along the way and it's up to you if you will stop after experiencing it, or will learn from it and continue what you're doing. In keeping your business, what I believe is that, you already have some knowledge about business already therefore, it will be easier for you to keep the business afloat. You just need to be updated on the trend, and continue learning so you will not be left by other competitors.

I guess true business owners can answer this way better because they've experienced it first hand.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Dr.Bitcoin_Strange on October 04, 2024, 09:59:35 PM


   conjunction to all the above. I think starting up a business in the first place is harder, in as much as both start-up and up keep is hard.
The stress behind starting up a business starts even before starting the business. Except proper planning is not done where a business is lunched anywhere. Doing all the possible business analysis, starting and then trying to get customers are all around startup which appears hardest than keeping the customers you have already.

Where keeping customers are usually a serious problem is in boom babies that started and business begin to flourish. By such,
Most business owners finally forget the importance of customers out of pride and arrogance. At times like this, some customers will only patronize based on monopoly.
I totally agree with you, starting a business is the most challenging phase of the business, getting to know the best strategy to use for your business, deciding on the best location for the business, knowing the best audience to target for your business, this and more are the major things to first consider before even kickstarting the business. And yes, it’s quite unfortunate that when businesses begins to thrive, the business owners quickly forget about the fact that the business came to its current state due to how satisfied the customers were, and then they prioritize other things over customers’ satisfaction.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: _act_ on October 05, 2024, 06:12:33 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

The most easiest thing to do here is to start a business, once it has been started, then to maintain it and keep it running becomes a difficult task to do, many people have been wondering on how they would have started something and never consider the way forward for it to remain in operation, it is very important also that we make sure that we are aware of what we are doing, in other to help sustain the business we have started.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Asiska02 on October 05, 2024, 07:12:29 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?

Everything about business is difficult and for you to succeed in business you have to be very patient and hardworking. Many business fail not because they can’t get those customers or they don’t have the right location for the business but because that little more effort they need to put into the business was lacking and they don’t bother to give it in.

Starting a business is not something I would even want to try now because I know that effort needed cannot be fully gotten from me now. It is better I invest into an already existing and striving business and get a share in it, I feel those work better now than starting a new one up which require the affirmations in your post, getting the new customers and keeping up with the customers again after successfully setting up.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Chilwell on December 16, 2024, 05:13:17 AM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Starting a business can be more difficult and challenging than growing an existing one. Attracting initial customers is crucial, as they can make or break a new business. If your products or services lack quality or appeal, it can be difficult to retain customers.

However, if your offerings meet customer expectations, your business can establish a strong reputation and gain traction. Once you've built a loyal customer base, it becomes easier to manage and maintain your business. Customer satisfaction are essential for the growth, development and success of the business.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: rachael9385 on December 29, 2024, 11:43:29 PM
I think the both of them are very important but keeping the consistency in the business is the  most hard especially when your business is in a competitive area sometimes you can loose your profits just to impress your customers to keep them. So maintaining the growth of your business is not an easy thing.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Findingnemo on December 30, 2024, 04:21:24 PM
Comparing startup vs business, the latter is hard and I can give pretty good example, we can see everywhere a shop that has been running successfully for years and might have 5 to 10 employees which we can assume as startup but there's only one wallmart or any name that comes to your mind made it to bigger scale which explains why it's not possible for everyone even if they are successful in what they are doing.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Penlex_Writer on January 06, 2025, 05:59:56 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
the startup part is not difficult,when the funds is availaible your plans will be archieved.the hardest part is to still maintain that same standard,i have seen so many peole that involves in a business one to two months the structure of the business has gone down because they can't meet up anylonger to maintain it.so the starting points is always easy,while the maintainance is the difficult task.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: albon on January 25, 2025, 05:57:20 PM
If you can present the business organization beautifully by presenting the product to the product, you can easily get the customer quickly. Find out consumer problems that can be resolved by your product or service. Then, target the market that requires your product or service according to your assessment.

Acquiring faith, building a relationship and maintaining loyalty all depends on how well you understand and actively work on your customers. If the quality of your product is good, that customer will come back to you again. You should know that adoption of proven sales strategy is very important for your sales growth.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: DragonF on January 26, 2025, 02:02:05 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
the startup part is not difficult,when the funds is availaible your plans will be archieved.the hardest part is to still maintain that same standard,i have seen so many peole that involves in a business one to two months the structure of the business has gone down because they can't meet up anylonger to maintain it.so the starting points is always easy,while the maintainance is the difficult task.

Start-up is where the challenge lies because people may not want to leave the current dealers they patronize to patronize your new business, so how do you get them to patronize you? What type of promotion will you run, and who is your target audience? These questions may appear simple on the surface, but once you get started, you will realize that starting a business is about more than just money.

I have seen businesses start and have done numerous promotions, but the businesses did not receive the desired level of patronage. Building confidence is easier than maintaining it. You may have the standard at the beginning, but it takes initial patronage for a person to recognize the standard. 
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Didia Sofunichi on February 17, 2025, 01:31:55 PM
Start up is to me is the most difficult part part of doing a business. Looking for capital to start the business, running all inclusive advert. Buying furniture and recruiting staff.

At the starting point you recruit staff and pay them profit even without making profit. Starting up a business now requires so much capital, commitment, physical presence and resilience.

Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: bhadz on February 17, 2025, 04:08:05 PM
Both are hard and important but we often hear when it's about getting into a business, the hardest is always the beginning. We may have different experiences on how we run businesses but I think everyone who has got experience will agree that it's the first step that's the hardest. But of course, keeping it and continually running it is also hard but if those are the choices, choose what's your hard.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: robelneo on February 18, 2025, 05:47:13 PM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?
The start-up is the hardest in any business; you have to do a feasibility study, have funds to set up the business, do massive marketing, and hire the best people to run the business.

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In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
If the service or product and customer relationship is good, customers will come back, but you have to set up good product services and establish good customer support, and it begins on start-up.
Planning on start-up includes sustainability of the business, so start-up is what makes the business successful.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Agbe on February 19, 2025, 08:25:28 PM
The most hardest thing when it comes to is the starting up it is the most difficult side of running a business because the future of every business depends on the starting process a business with potential can die in the starting process if the right person is not there to handle the business because it is a very tasky period because there are days that as a new business there will be no customers and no sale but you have to endure and maintain the business so starting a business is the most hardest part of any business
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Dr.Bitcoin_Strange on February 22, 2025, 04:52:46 PM
From my previous experience as a businessman, I’d say building a new business is a lot more harder than maintaining and sustaining that business. Reasons because, it takes a lot more effort, time, commitment and resilience to create a business out of nothing and also reach out to your targeted customers, and it takes even much more longer time.

Now the only secret to sustaining a business is having an alternate source of income, because the more you take from a business, the more it goes down, but if you’re compounding whatever profit that comes out from that business and putting it back into that business, the business will surely grow.
Another important thing to note when you’ve successfully established a thriving business is never abandon that business or leave it at the mercy of someone else, whether a family member or an employee, you can have an employee or assistance from families but never abandon to business for them. This is because you’re the only one who knows how much effort it took you to get the business thriving and only you have that experience and that business would need that experience to continue thriving.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: JoyMarsha on February 27, 2025, 10:57:45 PM
I will say that starting a business feels more harder than the person who has an existing running business.

Someone who is starting a business will face with the challenge of securing funds for the business, how to get customer base that will patronize the business, the location suited for the business and the market uncertainty(the demands of the customers can depreciate)
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Chilwell on March 25, 2025, 04:43:49 PM
I will say that starting a business feels more harder than the person who has an existing running business.

Someone who is starting a business will face with the challenge of securing funds for the business, how to get customer base that will patronize the business, the location suited for the business and the market uncertainty(the demands of the customers can depreciate)
Indeed, Starting up a business is really harder than growing up a business and the challenges you've mentioned are the  key factors that contribute to the hardness of launching a business. If a business is being established, the growth and development of the business will not be a problem, you just have to abide by the rules and regulations that governed the business and foster innovative and manner of approaching the customers.
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Joeboy on March 27, 2025, 05:01:10 PM
I will say that starting a business feels more harder than the person who has an existing running business.

Someone who is starting a business will face with the challenge of securing funds for the business, how to get customer base that will patronize the business, the location suited for the business and the market uncertainty(the demands of the customers can depreciate)
If you tend to have workers around you who are hell bent on restricting your progress it will be very difficult to grow  and maintain that business. Imagine your workers who after every sales tends to pocket some amount of money for themselves to share afterwards. With this the business can never move forward, another is when there is a lot of debt been owed to the businessman.
With this said I would simply conclude by stating that it is more easier to start a business than to maintain it, personally I know of a lot of my friends who after starting up numerous business ended up closing it down because they later on lacked the finances to continue with the business because of the kind of employees they had
Title: Re: which is harder for a business.
Post by: Dr.Bitcoin_Strange on March 30, 2025, 10:16:25 AM
I was wondering, which side of a business do you consider the hardest—the start-up or keeping the business going?

In start-ups, you have no customers, and your first task is trying to win customers for your business. To keep the business going, you have to keep the customers you have. Which is more difficult?
Start up should be the most difficult because to get the customers is the first thing and you need to make your price look attractive. Also the area where the business is located matters alot too, because if it  is in a busy environment, definitely you will get the customers. Keeping them is easy to me, because you need to have a good customer relationship with them so that they will be the one to tell you where you are lacking behind for you to improve.

You are correct, running a business is really difficult in respective of maintaining good reputation, keeping your customers in check, create a good communication with your customers, also get a good site where you can start up your business just as you said, also know the kind of products people who live around there wants, because if you get what people want in their everyday lives can also makes you make a good sales but all the same doing all this things is not really easy but it’s worth it as far as money is coming out from it.