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I am Zeerik Ahmad
I am the Founder, Writer, Author, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
Business Improvement Coach.
With 25+ years of corporate experience, I started IdeasBeat with a passion to share my personal and professional experiences with SMEs and many micro businesses from all around the world.
I do hope that I am able to add my few cents in the vast knowledge and wisdom world of Entrepreneurship.
The definition of 'Entrepreneurship' is mostly misunderstood.
A subtle difference exists between 'doing a business' and 'becoming an entrepreneur'.
What is that difference?
It is about the 'unique idea' or the 'differentiating idea'.
If you intend to start a coffee shop in your street, It may be just another coffee shop.
But if you see a different opportunity to create a coffee shop with hand-beaten coffee paste and to allow the customers to make their own coffee and to have hand-made sandwiches.
Then you are working on an entrepreneurial idea perhaps.
If the element of differentiation is not present, then by the strictest definition you cannot be an entrepreneur, though you may be a business person, and can still do well.
I hope this simple practical example may show the difference in what true entrepreneurship is all about.
Digital Entrepreneurship is about doing something in the internet online world.
It may be a simple ecommerce store where you are selling hand painted bedcovers and pillows with a unique or differentiating idea.
Or it may be selling vintage books online which may be hard to find elesewhere.
Or it may be offering a tech solution to book a doctor online.
Digital Entrepreneurship involves digital publishing and writing on the web without the use of ink and paper.
The brain and art of writing may be the same but the medium changes.
Writing and publishing online on the web requires some learning curve to understand the dynamics of this digital publishing medium.
Composing and formatting for the web page is different than what you write on the paper.
However, you may not need to know the technical web language like HTML. CSS and Java, but still you need to know the right digital publishing tools to use to build your page on the web.
There are many Multimedia Digital publishing solutions that help you distribute your content far and wide locally as well as globally at a fraction of the traditional hard print costs.
At the same time, digital entrepreneurship and digital publishing is also environment friendly.
You are saving lots of trees, otherwise which are cut and used to manufacture paper and pencils.
We also digitally publish a variety of useful resources, reports, ebooks, and directory pages on IdeasBeat.
However, I endeavor that small and medium businesses should use the multimedia digital publishing to get the best out of the digital world.
I coach SMEs to use the digital edge to grow their businesses.
Check Out our Published Books (Old Classics)
When it comes to acquiring knowledge, then there is a vast bottomless treasure in the internet world.
Interestingly, when you want to be an entrepreneur, first of all you want to be a good human being, and you need to know more about fellow human beings as you will be interacting with them a lot.
Secondly, you also need to know about the hard core universal principles of managing money well.
I am selecting the two old classic books for you.
If you do find time, please do read in full or at least some part of it.
It surely will help you get better wisdom out of it.
How To Analyze People On Sight
By Elsie Lincoln And Ralph Paine
USD 2.99 (Now FREE)
The core knowledge of Elsie and Ralph about the human types was one of the first major works ever done in the world to study the human appearance and relating it with the temperamental behavior.
Many later studies have come and gone with equal and more successes. But Elsie & Ralph’s master piece still holds its own unique golden value in the world of human psychology. Read More ...
Art Of Money Getting Or Golden Rules Of Making Money
By P.T. Barnum
USD 2.99
This book ‘The Art of Money Getting’ is a classic book in your hands originally written by P.T.Barnum who experienced lots of ups and downs, struggles and triumphs but led a successful & famous celebrity life that included starting up museum, theatrical houses, musical concerts, serving as Politician and Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut and finally starting a Barnum and Bailey Circus company. Read More ...
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