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Starting a Business in Glens Falls, New York
Thinking about starting a business in Glens Falls, New York? This step-by-step guide walks you through the major decisions you should consider before opening a new business in Glens Falls.
Are You Sure You Want to Do This?
Before you get too far along in the process, take inventory of your entrepreneurial instincts and capabilities.
To determine whether you have what it takes to run a business, we recommend these three steps to help you decide:
- Talk to other entrepreneurs in Glens Falls. Ask them candidly what it's like to run a business.
- We recommend reading Should You Become an Entrepreneur?. For aspiring new entrepreneurs, it's a must read article.
- Have a candid conversation with friends and family. The people who know you best are often in the best position to tell you bluntly whether you will be a good entrepreneur.
Choosing the Right Company to Start
An important decision is what kind of business you want to start. To help you decide on a business type, we encourage you to read Free Business Ideas.
For in-depth how-to guides on how to start specific businesses, browse our Good Businesses to Start section of our site. For example, you might be interested in our Starting a Monuments & Markers Lettering Business guide or our Opening a Monuments & Markers Manufacturing Equipment Business guide.
Don't forget that Glens Falls is the place where you are starting a business. If Glens Falls already has plenty of the kind of business you want to start, you might want to change your plans. Study Glens Falls demographics and do a competitive analysis as part of your startup planning process.
Glens Falls, New York Demographic Information
Glens Falls has an active business community that includes small businesses, mid-sized businesses and large businesses.
To give you a better feel for Glens Falls demographics for small businesses, we have tabulated the small business sizes, based on number of employees, for business in Glens Falls.
Businesses
As a new Glens Falls entrepreneur, you may also be interested in the table below. It shows how many businesses there are in Glens Falls for each business category. By looking at this chart, you can get a general sense for how much competition there is in the business niche that you are pursuing.
Businesses
Have You Considered Buying an Existing Glens Falls Business?
We've created a helpful website page for those who want to Buy a Business in New York. Follow that link and you can review several good businesses for sale in Glens Falls.
Before buying a business, be sure to read this article: How to Buy a Business.
Don't Skip the Business Plan
Having a business plan is vital to the health of your new business. Indeed, a business plan describes what you plan to do with the business and how you plan to do it. Not having a business plan makes you more prone to becoming a business failure statistic.
If writing a business plan is on your to-do list, be sure to read Business Plan Software. You can also get free counseling sessions provided by your local SCORE chapter in New York.
Letting the World Know You Exist
To grow your Glens Falls business, you need a solid marketing plan.
We have some helpful resources on this site for entrepreneurs who are working on marketing plans. Direct Mail Costs is a good read to get your marketing juices flowing. There are many more articles on marketing on our site. Visit our Small Business Marketing resource section to see them all.
The Art of Selling
Being able to sell is fundamental to your business success. Whether you are focused on selling local customers in Glens Falls or are selling to customers throughout New York, the United States or even the world, you have to be able to sell.
Clever sales techniques can transform any business from good to great. Fortunately, we've got plenty of good advice to help you improve your selling skills.
Closing Sales is a good article to read, one of dozens in the Selling for Entrepreneurs section of our site.
Next Steps
You have a dream -- starting a business in Glens Falls. To achieve your dream, you have to persevere, even when the odds are against you.
From this point on, you control your own destiny.
Our goal here is to promote the vitality and growth of small businesses in Glens Falls and throughout the United States . We have a wealth of experience in business start-ups, financing, marketing, sales and more...and we've made all of our knowledge available to you.
More Entrepreneurial Resources for Starting a Business in Glens Falls, New York
Here are more links that we believe will help you be successful in starting a business in Glens Falls.
- Resources for Glens Falls, New York Entrepreneurs - Browse a variety of resources we've collected to assist Glens Falls entrepreneurs.
- New York Entrepreneurial Resources - We've gathered state-level entrepreneurial resources to help new entrepreneurs who are based in New York.
- New York Small Business Development Center - The New York State Small Business Development Center delivers high quality business counseling and training to New Yorkers who want to start a business or improve the performance of an existing business.
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