Don't over estimate potential customers enthusiasm for your product. I did a lot of market research and got hundreds of points of positive feedback for my $20 product. After we manufactured about 100 units we had one order that was placed. People love to say they'll buy something and then not buy it. If you're in a business that applies to this, be careful not to over estimate your market. I wish I had waited to release my product until there was overwhelming demand.
Luckily my business is not product manufacturing/sales so there is a low level of initial capital required to provide my service especially seeing as I already have a lot of the tools I'll require. That said a lot of the interest received just promised interest, both in the form of "I'll definitely call on you in the future! " as well as being booked for a future date to do a job. The first of those I try not let myself consider as potential work until it comes to fruition, although I might follow up with them if I feel like it's appropriate/not imposing to do so. The second of the two I consider a little more promising as I have actively had to set aside a date for the job, I just have to hope they don't cancel.
It is a good point you make though, and I definitely think I need to keep my hopes and excitement in check to a point to protect myself from disappointment but not to an extent that it hurts my enthusiasm and as a result my work ethic because I do believe that my passion for my work adds to the clients opinion of my service. I also, at least at the moment, have active jobs already in progress.
Don't over estimate potential customers enthusiasm for your product. I did a lot of market research and got hundreds of points of positive feedback for my $20 product. After we manufactured about 100 units we had one order that was placed. People love to say they'll buy something and then not buy it. If you're in a business that applies to this, be careful not to over estimate your market. I wish I had waited to release my product until there was overwhelming demand.
Thanks for taking the time to respond :)
Luckily my business is not product manufacturing/sales so there is a low level of initial capital required to provide my service especially seeing as I already have a lot of the tools I'll require. That said a lot of the interest received just promised interest, both in the form of "I'll definitely call on you in the future! " as well as being booked for a future date to do a job. The first of those I try not let myself consider as potential work until it comes to fruition, although I might follow up with them if I feel like it's appropriate/not imposing to do so. The second of the two I consider a little more promising as I have actively had to set aside a date for the job, I just have to hope they don't cancel.
It is a good point you make though, and I definitely think I need to keep my hopes and excitement in check to a point to protect myself from disappointment but not to an extent that it hurts my enthusiasm and as a result my work ethic because I do believe that my passion for my work adds to the clients opinion of my service. I also, at least at the moment, have active jobs already in progress.
No problem. Services can go the same way btw, you build a certain server to handle certain traffic and that traffic never comes.
"Oh man if someone made Facebook 2 I'd leave the old one in a second!"
Easy to say, hard to follow through.
Anyways wish you best of luck! When you are successful come back and let us know what/how you're doing :)