Business Startup Advice Royal Oak MI

We all get stuck in ruts – relationships, habits, jobs. In the work world, you may just be occupying space in a cubicle or a factory work station or behind a retail counter because it’s what you know, or where you feel safe, or where you feel you have to be.

But we’re here to encourage you to escape that rut – now! You've got what it takes to start a business ! It takes imagination, or daring, or sweat equity, or all three, but people who feed back to us tell us that becoming an entrepreneur has been the most extraordinary life change they can imagine!

And in many, many cases, breaking out of the workaday mold and starting a business has finally allowed them to follow a life plan, and lead a lifestyle, that is exactly suited to them.

Encouragement from people who’ve started a business

You work, you benefit: This is one of the simplest and most powerful motivations for starting a company. “I’m tired of making money for other people, working 40+ hours per week, just to get the chance of getting a 2-3% raise every year,” wrote DC in a follow-up to one of our blog entries . “No thanks.” DC was going on to start his own freelance-journalism business.

Live what you love: It really is possible! Bob and Mel Blanchard have even started a movement around the idea. The couple has always rejected the typical 9-to-5 job and followed their professional passions.

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