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Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests

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There are a number of steps to follow to get the most out of this guide: 1. Think about and list your key skills

2. Think about and list your main interests

3. Prioritize what’s important to you

4. Combine skills and interests to create business ideas

5. Create a short list of ideas

Steps to follow in this guide

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.

Introduction

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Get the most out of this tool Create a business idea based on your existing skills and interests

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You can see a summary of the first two steps in the picture below and over the next couple of pages.

Summary of the first two steps

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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

Step 1 – Think about and capture your skills

Formal education and qualifications Vocational skills Career and business skills Soft skills Skills learned from hobbies and interests Life skills Other skills

Examples of skill areas

An example of a skills list

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Think about your interests and pastimes

Note them down in this tool

Try to be precise in how you capture your interests

Step 2 – Think about and capture your interests

Work/Business Entertainment Technology Home Hobbies and pastimes Other

Examples of interest areas

An example of an interest list

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Business Idea Tool – Combining Your Skills and Interests

You can see a summary of the next two steps in the picture below and over the next couple of pages.

Summary of the next two steps

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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 3 – Prioritize your skills and interests

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

Step 4 – Combine your skills and interests to create ideas

You can see an example of this on the next page

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An example of combined skills and interests

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Steps 1 & 3 – Capture your skills below and prioritize them Skill Priority

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Step 4 – Combine your skills and interests to create ideas Combined Skill & Interest

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Step 5 – Review your ideas and create a shortlist Shortlist of Ideas

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Please find links to useful books below

Further Resources – Useful books

Book Title Amazon US Amazon UK Amazon CA

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living

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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 View / Buy View / Buy View / Buy

‘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

View / Buy View / Buy View / Buy

‘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 View / Buy View / Buy View / Buy

‘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 View / Buy View / Buy View / Buy

Other popular books on business ideas on Amazon.

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Please find links to other useful resources below

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

Further Resources – Useful links

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