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How To Find A Good Investment
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If you’ve read my get money series, you’ll hopefully have some money at this point to invest. I’ve mentioned a couple of investment alternatives in the article grow your pile of money. Clearly, the best alternative is to invest in either your own business, or someone else’s business that you understand. So the question becomes, “How exactly do we go about finding a company with a good business plan?”
Well, we can use the guidelines from my coming up with business ideas article. Afterall, if it’s a good business idea, and someone else is already doing it, might as well just join them! Here are the things to look for:
Fills a Need – Make sure that the business actually does something that someone will always want. For example, a business dedicated to bringing you the best housing, or a business that supplies people with books, is a solid foundation. A business that tells you to send them a dollar and pass the letter on is not. Any sort of business which doesn’t fill an actual need like multi level marketing (MLM) schemes are bound to fail. The more the need being filled matters, the more solid your business foundation. For example, people are fine without MLM books; people aren’t fine without food.
Is Run Well – Does the CEO sound like he sits on his ass all day and drinks beer? Is management in it to make a quick buck for themselves, at YOUR expense? Find out about the people running the business. Make sure that they actually care about filling the need in part 1. Just remember, if the business isn’t filling the need, it’ll disappear.
Has a High Barrier of Entry – The business should be hard to replicate. If it ends up making a lot of money and it’s easy to duplicate, pretty soon, there will be thousands of businesses just like it! People aren’t dumb – if they’re making their 8% in bonds and they see you’re making 200% with your business, they’re gonna come. This is where the branding of the company, and quality of the product becomes of paramount importance (see how much money is integrity worth?). If people trust the company, and the product is working just fine for them, it’ll be awfully hard to get them to switch. This is an interesting situation which I like to call the gap concept.
Is Underpriced – Let’s face it. We want to make money, so we’re looking for something cheap. Now, that doesn’t mean we’re ripping the other people off. It’s cheap for a reason. For example, if it’s a private business, the owner may need money to expand, or if it’s public, people may perceive the company to be very risky or unsuccessful for whatever reason. In that case, by putting your money in, you’re actually giving it your vote of confidence and making it slightly more expensive.
Of course, the more promising you think the business is, the more you can pay for it. Just keep in mind though that there’s potential everywhere while good results are hard to come by.
While there are probably other things to look out for, these 4 are by far the most important. If you just follow these 4 tips, you should be well on your way to finding a good, safe business to invest in!
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Wonderful tips, GOOD points…But old fashion… I mean, who doesn’t want to get rich fast and easy in nowadays… But it’s hard to find an opportunity that satisfies all 4 criteria…
Think about NIKE, and FATHEAD, and all other products out there in the market..Say CoCa Cola…
They sell overpriced products, Yet successful…
There are other products…say bottled water…How ‘high’ is the barrier to entry? How much over priced they charge??? How conveniences to replace them by other alternatives (not talking about crisis here..) And Yet, they are making good profits…
Excuse me for being argumentative here…But I believe…Creativity, determination, adaptability and ability to act are the 4 most important qualities to a person… and an organization!
Well, water fills a need and their barrier to entry is their brand (see my other article on How Much Money Is Integrity Worth). “Overpriced” is a relative term I think. As long as people are willing to pay for it, it sounds fair to me.
Well, with those 4 traits you mentioned, you would end up with a lot of Hitlers. I agree that they are very important in the makeup of people and organizations, but you definiately need to act positively to fill some need in order to be successful in society (as in, you fill that need without pissing a lot of other people off).
Really? I doubt about it.. Have lots of living proof around me.
If you have some examples, I’d be happy to take a look.
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Hi Robby,
If you just add a link to the website at the end of your paper, that’d be much appreciated
Thanks!
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7th Avenue Off Zulma Street
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