Great Ideas and Tips for Entrepreneurial Success

First Published:November  2005
Last Update: November 2005
Author:  Kanaga Siva

For ten years the world has been watching with Awe and  Admiration the Phenomenal success of Jeff Bezos the Founder  and CEO of Amazon.com.  The goal of each and every Entrepreneur be they Home Based  Business or not is to achieve success and rise to the top. 

Success does not come easily. It requires Hard Work,  Commitment and Dedication to reach the top as an  Entrepreneur. Attaining your goal is often easier if you can  follow the path already trodden by Brilliant Entrepreneurs.  Pick up some Great Ideas and Tips that rocketed them to Fame and Fortune and try to implement them. 

In this respect the Phenomenal success of Jeff Bezos, dubbed  by Time Magazine as the " King of Cybercommerce" comes to  mind. His spirit of Adventure, Imagination, Innovation and  Creativeness are some of the qualities that have made  Amazon.com what it is today. 

In 1994 he set up his Home Based Business in a two bed  roomed house in Seattle with extension leads running to his  garage. There was no turning back and the tremendous  progress he made is history. 

Today Amazon serves over 45 Million customers and well over  600,000 Associates. Amazon.com is the Internet's most  popular brand name. It is the largest Internet retailer in 
the world. Jeff Bezos the founder and CEO is a  multi-billionaire and one of the richest men in the world. 

A few quotes of Jeff Bezos will display the characteristic  thinking behind the success of this brilliant entrepreneur and the dominance of Amazon.com. 

1. "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person.  You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well." 

2. "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each  other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful". 

3. "There are two kinds of companies, those that work to  try to charge more and those that work to charge less. we  will be the second". 

4. "We see customers as invited guests to a party and we are  the hosts. It's our job everyday to make every important  aspect of the customer's experience a little better". 

5. "What we want to do is something completely new. There  is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming". 

About his vision Jeff Bezos says "Our vision is the world's  most customer-centric company. The place where people come  to find and discover anything they might want to buy on  line". 

To top it up he places great emphasis on the importance of  the six core values-he insists on. 
1. Customer obsession. 2. Ownership. 3. Bias for action. 4.  Frugality. 5. High hiring bar. 6. Innovation. 

Here are some very useful Ideas and Tips that all  Entrepreneurs including the Home Based Business Entrepreneur  can pick up from Jeff Bezos. 

You have to be:

1. A Dreamer and never give up your dream
2. An Optimist and be Confident in what you do.
3. A Strategist, ready to meet all situations and  circumstances. 
4. Prepared to tread into areas where others have never  trodden before. 
5. Customer focused more than Marketing focused.
7. Obsessed about customers not competitors.
8. Innovative and keep on innovating.
9. Always thinking Big.
10.Working hard and charge less.

Finally a tip from Jeff Bezos for all Entrepreneurs," Work  hard, have fun, make history". Yes,"The King of Cyberspace"  has done it with Amazon.com 

Copyright © 2005 Kanaga Siva

About the Author:

Kanaga Siva has a wealth of experience in  Marketing and also running his own Home Based Business. He  now operates his Internet Marketing Business. For Articles,  Resources, Ideas and Advise to start a Home Based Business  and for other recommended Programs, visit his website,  http://www.business-fromhome.com