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Understanding the “Must Have” and “Nice to Have”
There is no single person who wanted greater financial condition than revenue expenditure. However, no single person can ensure that its financial condition would be fine. In fact, somebody who experienced an increase in income each year its financial condition will not necessarily be better. Why? Because the amount of increase in spending could be greater than the increase in revenue. Therefore, the key word to stabilize financial conditions, or even make it better, is the expenditure or cost.
Cost, can essentially be divided into two, namely the cost to finance something that is a must have and the costs that are nice to have. In reality, many people find it difficult to distinguish both these costs. For example, to meet the primary needs, like clothing, food, and shelter. At first glance, the fulfillment of these needs are all costs that are a must have. Though not the case.
Clothing, for example, that each person must cover his body with clothing is a necessity. However, what brand of clothing that will be purchased and at what price is not demand but desire, and it pertained nice to have. In summary, controlling the cost of actual expenditure is how to understand the characteristics of the costs which are the must have and nice to have. How concretely? Must have more function of an item. For example the vehicle, someone needs a vehicle as a means of transportation. However, whether such vehicles should be high-priced, European-made, shaped luxury sedans, and so forth, it is nice to have.
The next step, first, make sure all the costs you spend on a plan. If you want your financial condition is not included in the condition “greater than the pivot pole”, then the discipline in a plan and execute it is absolutely essential. Planning expenditures that could be annual, monthly, and weekly. Create a detailed needs of your spending. Then meditate on each item first, whether the spending plans were a necessity or simply the desire.
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Second, review the spending plan before implementation. Say all the spending plans already made is believed to be based on something that is must have. Is the problem over? Not yet. Check before implementation. That is, at the time of execution, may be items that would be funded were not a need anymore. What for example? In June, you’re planning to buy new shoes. Apparently, the shoes you have are still good. Purchase new shoes would no longer be required.
Third, innovate for costs to be issued. Innovation cost far more strategic than the two things mentioned above. How does that mean? A simple example, you allocate the funds to pay for transportation to the office, for example, to buy gasoline. This is indeed necessary.
However, do you ever think that the cost of petrol vehicles do not always have to be borne alone? How come? Very able. If you live in the complex, you can actually invite the neighbors to get together to ride your vehicle to the office. Then for the cost of petrol is borne along. Maybe you feel ashamed for doing it. However, try to use rationality. Or if you do not want to use these ways, can vote the opposite way, ie, you are riding your neighbor’s vehicle. If you do this three times a week, calculate how much savings that can be done in a year.
Innovation costs can also be done in other contexts, let alone the needs of secondary or tertiary in nature, such as travel. Currently, nearly all of the needs of tourism. However, not all people are able to plan and finance travel well. For example, buying a plane ticket before departure. Clearly, ticket prices will be very expensive. In fact, the plane ticket let alone the promo can be very cheap if bought in advance.
That innovation costs in the context set of expenditures. Even more sophisticated is that if innovation costs can be applied in all settings of your assets. One example is if you have unproductive assets. Do you have more than one house. Houses that do not you live in is the cost. Because you have to bear the cost of electricity, water, maintenance, and others. To be home is not a burden; it must be productive, such as rent, so he became a source of revenue.
In order condition is greater than the revenue expenditure can be avoided, then the entire expenditure plans items that have been made to do a review, whether there is room to apply the innovation in it. The simplest is your monthly spending plan, whether in monthly shopping frequency is more suitable and efficient than, for example, spending per bi-monthly, or shopping through the orders.
Thus, the true cost of innovation is not just in the context of items to be purchased, but also in terms of buying procedures. Another example, shopping at the time of season sale could be categorized as innovation costs, all items purchased is indeed a necessity. So it was not because of emotional factors. Good luck.
Six Steps to Start Food Business
1. Introduction and Assessment
Do the introduction and exploration of the environment on a small scale, such as the type of food / cake what will be offered and liked the environment, the current trend is a popular food because the seller usually follow the market taste. Many of the early steps starting from a wide range of food, until finally there was only one type of food at the market appetite enjoy doing, such as independent case, Amanda steamed brownies and so forth.
2. Must Delicious
After the market appetite we hold, the next step is the quality of taste. Do not hesitate to do some experiments in order to taste the food you keep awake, surely it can not be separated from good quality raw materials.
3. Interesting Views
Taste delicious and tasty but unattractive appearance also inhibits lho customer purchasing power. Remember, the customer before buying would be seen from the first appearance, no matter how tasty food if bad how the presentation would have been fatal.
4. Service
Customers are king. yes, it is not just a slogan only. Maybe between us never buy food / cake is delicious but bad service! Do not count on customers coming back. Therefore give the best service you have. Many ways, among others, the quality, taste, cleanliness, delivery on time, show a sympathetic attitude, a friendly greeting, a smile sincere. This is a business law in interacting with customers.
5. Do Campaign
To promote a wide variety of food / cake. Starting from disseminating brochures, business cards, giving free samples to try and one that is very influential
word of mouth promotion. Testimony was extremely effective. But if without the support of brochures, business cards and so forth do not necessarily reflect the professionalism of good business.
6. Finance
Income and expenditure in managing the business of food / cake can be done in various ways, ranging from the most conventional way is the note in the book / agenda and with the bookkeeping in a way that is sophisticated computer systems. The basic remain the same good record income and expenditure and do not mix personal finances with your business governance.
Entrepreneurial Character Must be Built Early
Persistence and the ability to see opportunity in an entrepreneurial character representing that need to be grown from the outset. Especially to adolescents, to be ready to enter the next era. Chance to continue higher education do not possess all of the young. Therefore, the spirit of entrepreneurship needs to be built since high school.
Entrepreneurs build not just talking about access to finance. Entrepreneurial spirit and character need to be built early, though later applications through a variety of ways besides being a businessperson or social entrepreneur, for example.
Have the tenacity, ready to face challenges, smart in the circumstances and opportunities, creatively, to think more open and less compartmentalized compartmentalized, or think out of the box, are some of the most prominent entrepreneurial character. Anyone can have an entrepreneurial character like this.
Education of entrepreneur which is part of the CSF program concept was built 20 years ago in America and adapted in each country. In Indonesia, activities that focus on education was held since eight years ago to build a robust entrepreneurial character.
Soul or character of entrepreneurship needed because the world continues to grow. In the era of globalization in the future, young children need to have the entrepreneurial spirit like this.