which is harder for a business.

[LogitechMouse]

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.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

   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.

[_act_]

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.

[Asiska02]

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.

[Chilwell]

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.

[rachael9385]

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.

[Findingnemo]

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.

[Penlex_Writer]

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.

[albon]

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.

[DragonF]

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. 

[Didia Sofunichi]

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.

[bhadz]

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.

[robelneo]

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.

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.

[Agbe]

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

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

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.