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BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Introduction Welcome to this Business Ideas Tool from Business Bulletpoints. This tool is designed to help you create, capture and refine business ideas based on combining your existing skills and interests. Share this tool – You are welcome to use, distribute, publish and share this tool; license terms are available on the last page
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Create a business idea based on your existing skills and interests
Steps to follow in this guide There are a number of steps to follow to get the most out of this guide: 1.
Think about and list your key skills
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Think about and list your main interests
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Prioritize what’s important to you
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Combine skills and interests to create business ideas
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Create a short list of ideas
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Summary of the first two steps You can see a summary of the first two steps in the picture below and over the next couple of pages.
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Step 1 – Think about and capture your skills Think about the skills that you use in everyday life Note them down in this tool (pages provided later)
Try to be precise in how you capture your skills
Examples of skill areas
Formal education and qualifications Vocational skills Career and business skills Soft skills Skills learned from hobbies and interests Life skills Other skills
An example of a skills list
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Step 2 – Think about and capture your interests Think about your interests and pastimes Note them down in this tool Try to be precise in how you capture your interests
Examples of interest areas
Work/Business Entertainment Technology Home Hobbies and pastimes Other
An example of an interest list
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Summary of the next two steps You can see a summary of the next two steps in the picture below and over the next couple of pages.
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Step 3 – Prioritize your skills and interests Go through each item on your lists and think about each one You’ll need to prioritize each item based on your experience, expertise, interest and enthusiasm for it Keep your prioritization simple, rate each one as High, Medium or Low Don’t feel that this section needs to be rushed
Step 4 – Combine your skills and interests to create ideas Take the first skill that you have rated as ‘H’ and put it with the first interest that you’ve rated as ‘H’ and write it down. Then, combine that first skill with the second interest you rated as H and so on until you’ve combined your first skill with all ‘H’ interests Next, go to your second ‘H’ skill and combine it with all ‘H’ interests and so on until you’ve combined all of your ‘H’ skills with all of your ‘H’ interests If, after completing this step, you don’t feel that you have quite enough combinations, you can repeat this with your ‘M’ skills and interests You can see an example of this on the next page
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
An example of combined skills and interests
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Steps 1 & 3 – Capture your skills below and prioritize them Skill Priority H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Steps 2 & 3 – Capture your interests below and prioritize them Skill Priority H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L H/M/L
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Step 4 – Combine your skills and interests to create ideas Combined Skill & Interest
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Step 5 – Review your ideas and create a shortlist Shortlist of Ideas
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Please find links to useful books below
Further Resources – Useful books Book Title The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living
Amazon US
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‘Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment.’
The Six-Figure Second Income
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‘If you're tired of the gimmicks and scepticism that anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype, no-nonsense advice you need.’
One Simple Idea for Startups and Entrepreneurs
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‘The author helps you live the entrepreneurial dream by delivering a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business.’
The 4-Hour Workweek
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‘Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.’
Other books on business ideas
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Other popular books on business ideas on Amazon. Please note that the book links above are affiliate links; this means we get a small commission when you visit and purchase from Amazon. This doesn’t cost you anything but helps us to maintain and produce our free guides.
BUSINESS BULLETPOINTS Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests
Please find links to other useful resources below
Further Resources – Useful links Business Bulletpoints Resources Build a business idea on solving difficulties and problems Four tools to help you find your business idea Free Business Software List
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