Business Success

Transform Your Idea into a Profitable System

Entrepreneurship & Startups4.8(23)5h 12m23 lectures8 sections

What you'll learn

  • Think like a business owner
  • Test your idea and define the type of project
  • Define the target audience and the competitive advantage
  • Understand the brand and choose the archetype and emotional promise
  • Build the visual and verbal identity
  • Prepare the first SOP for the project
  • Price the product and calculate the break-even point
  • Manage cash flow
  • Create a promotion plan and choose marketing channels
  • Track the indicators of success and early failure

About this course

This course shows you how to turn your idea into an organized project that makes a profit and lasts, with the mindset of a business owner rather than just an idea owner. It starts with thinking like a business owner and testing the idea, and when not to start the project, then defining the type of project, the target audience, and the competitive advantage. Next it covers building the brand, explaining that a brand is not a logo, and showing how to choose the archetype and the emotional promise and build the visual and verbal identity. Then it moves to operations: the location, sourcing the product or service, and the first simple SOP for the project. On the financial side you learn pricing, the break-even point, and cash flow management, followed by a promotion plan, marketing channels, sustainability, a ninety-day plan, and indicators of success and early failure. The course suits people with ideas, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, and it requires no previous experience. It includes a workbook for practice. By the end, you will be able to evaluate your idea, decide whether to start or not, and create a practical operations and marketing plan.

Expected outcomes

  • Develop a clear vision before launching any project.
  • Ability to make Go / No Go decisions with confidence.
  • Build a work system based on structure, not random effort.
  • Price your product or service for profitability and sustainability.
  • Create an operational and marketing plan for the first 90 days practically.

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  • ★★★★★d j.·منذ 2 شهرشاهد 100٪

    السلام عليكم كورس جيد هو عبارة عن خريطة لكل من يريد أن يبدأ بزنيس علي أسس علمية شكرا لكم

  • ★★★★★اسلام ا.·منذ 3 شهرشاهد 68٪
  • ★★★★★اسامه ا.·منذ 3 شهرشاهد 50٪

    من افضل الكورسات في البيزنس

  • ★★★★★لحرش ش.·منذ 3 شهرشاهد 100٪

    دورة رائعة بارك الله فيكم

  • ★★★★★مجتبى خ.·منذ 4 شهرشاهد 50٪

    دورة اكثر من رائعة وفعلا خلتني احس بنفسي صرت مرشد اتسراتيجي ومو بس لمشروعي وانما لكل مشروع اشوفه كدامي

5 / 8 تقييم

Course content

1

The Cornerstone

3 lectures
  1. Thinking Like a Business Owner, Not Just an Idea PersonContrasts the mindset of an idea owner who is attached to his idea with that of a business owner who looks at numbers and reality, using examples of brilliant ideas that fail without profit or a defined audience.16:47
  2. Testing the IdeaExplains how to test an idea honestly before spending money, distinguishing painkillers from vitamins and measuring the customer's pain and the cost of inaction, rather than relying on friends' opinions.8:23
  3. When Not to Start the Project?Explains when not to start a business: without a marketing budget or capacity to absorb losses, or in a saturated market without an edge, with the sunk cost fallacy and Michael Porter's view of the red ocean.12:13
2

Turning an Idea into a Clear Project

3 lectures
  1. Defining the Project TypeDefines project type as the first strategic decision, comparing service projects with product-selling projects and the risks of each, such as the time trap in services and inventory management and obsolescence in products.17:46
  2. Identifying the Target AudienceExplains defining the target audience beyond age and location to the customer's motives and psychology, with the jobs to be done theory and the moment of purchase decision, warning against targeting everyone.9:48
  3. The True Competitive AdvantageExplains building a real competitive advantage based on being different rather than the best, with examples such as Dyson, Vimto-style positioning and a mechanic specializing in a single car type.16:37
3

The Spirit of the Brand

4 lectures
  1. Branding is Not Just a LogoExplains that a brand is not just a logo but a reputation and a whole system that reduces the customer's pain of paying, and that a business must choose its place in people's minds, as Volvo and iPhone did.9:06
  2. Choosing the Right Archetype for the ProjectExplains choosing the right archetype for the business from twelve core personalities grouped by human motive, and how it humanizes a brand, with analysis of brands such as Fawry.19:31
  3. The Emotional PromiseExplains crafting the emotional promise that binds the customer to the business as a bridge to the desired feeling, avoiding promises outside your control and promising less than you deliver to pleasantly surprise customers.14:18
  4. Building Visual and Verbal IdentityExplains building the visual and verbal identity: choosing colors that express the archetype and their psychological effect, white space, and a consistent tone of voice across all channels.10:31
4

The Operating Machine

3 lectures
  1. Location and OperationsExplains that operations turn a brand into a system that runs without its owner, resting on three pillars of quality, consistency, and reliability, with the example of procedure manuals in big restaurant chains like McDonald's.13:13
  2. Delivering the Product or ServiceExplains designing the workplace around the operating process rather than the reverse, whether physical or digital, warns against spending the budget on appearance before sales, and cites the McDonald's kitchen example.13:34
  3. First Simple SOP for the ProjectExplains writing a first SOP, a standard operating procedure, to turn the owner's expertise into a system that runs without him, built on three pillars: trigger, procedure steps and outcome, with customer reply and packaging examples.13:51
5

Money and Pricing

4 lectures
  1. Money in the ProjectCovers project finances: calculating the real cost beyond the purchase price, the importance of cash flow, and the rule of doubling both the budget and the time estimated before profit begins.12:58
  2. PricingExplains pricing strategies and goals such as profit maximization, penetration versus skimming pricing, price elasticity and the product life cycle, and how price relates to brand prestige and customer decision-making.22:28
  3. Break-even PointExplains the break-even point and how to calculate it by dividing monthly fixed costs by the unit profit margin, and the effect of not reaching it for months on capital and loan repayment.23:37
  4. Liquidity ManagementExplains liquidity management and why companies profitable on paper collapse, by shortening inventory holding time, controlling credit sales with a collection strategy, so cash arrives before expenses go out.16:25
6

Marketing

3 lectures
  1. Promotion PlanDistinguishes marketing from promotion, explaining that promotion is an invitation to visit the business after fixing product and price, with a specific target group and a farmer's rather than a hunter's mindset in converting audiences.18:50
  2. Marketing ChannelsExplains choosing suitable marketing channels instead of spreading across every platform, reviewing Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and the website, and tying the choice to where customers are and the owner's strengths.13:02
  3. SustainabilityExplains sustainability by turning one-time buyers into long relationships through customer lifetime value (CLV), acquisition cost (CAC), after-sales service, and treating complaints as a feedback loop.10:35
7

Launch Decision (Go / No Go)

2 lectures
  1. First 90 Days PlanLays out a plan for a project's first 90 days, with tracking indicators such as customer feedback, cash flow, customer lifetime value and acquisition cost, and the stages of the three months.11:13
  2. Early Success and Failure IndicatorsExplains early success and failure indicators, when to scale as customers return and returns stabilize, when to adjust pricing or operations, and when stopping is the wise decision.7:16
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Add-ons

1 attachments
  1. Download the Workbook

Instructor

Ahmed Ibrahim

Ahmed Ibrahim

Lecturer and consultant in management and marketing, with experience in marketing for over 5 Arab companies.
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