E-Myth
E-Myth Paper
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber helped me answer many questions I had with starting my own business and to really be able to run a successful business at that. However, I have a lot to learn being a successful entrepreneur. I am in my senior year at BYU and plan on pursuing a professional career in tennis, as well as start my own business. The book helped me to gather more details and information about the situations I will be in, what I have to expect and what I should be aware of personally. Owning your own business and making sure that you do not own your own job, buying yourself a job are lessons this book makes evident and helps us to realize what we need to do to become successful entrepreneurs.
I have little to no experience in running my own business. I have my own side business of stringing tennis rackets, and a want to create my own tennis shop or service that deals with racket customization. Since I owned my own racket-stringing machine at the age of 16 I have strung my own as well as others rackets. I charged ten dollars for the labor on the rackets and than depending on what string they chose they would also be charged for the string. I have always customized my own tennis rackets, and offered the service to others, but they would just pass on the opportunity. In customizing my own rackets, I have seen the difference it can make in ones game. I have just had a hard time getting everyone else to experience customized rackets. Most people are scared of doing it.
Since coming to BYU I have pursued my business as much as I would have liked too. I have been very busy with school, and playing tennis for BYU. However, having this experience though strengthened my will to do something like this after my time at BYU. The book helped me with understanding many different points I had not considered before, which probably will help me to be successful in my career. Especially chapter ten of the book, The Business...
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