{"id":8740,"date":"2015-04-01T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.123print.com\/blog\/why-do-businesses-fail\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:45:32","slug":"why-do-businesses-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/why-do-businesses-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Businesses Fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The million dollar question that all companies must face is &#8211; why do businesses fail? It&#39;s important to turn this question over in your mind if you have even a modicum of interest to go out on your own. Ignoring the hard truth that you might&nbsp;not succeed&nbsp;prevents you from learning from other people&#39;s mistakes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Signs of failure<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to Forbes, some companies go under while others thrive for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chicceo\/2012\/10\/31\/why-failure-is-so-important-to-success\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">several reasons<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;many of which are multi-faceted. Here are a few&nbsp;reasons why businesses fail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The inability to teach clients about the product, if it does something that&#39;s new and innovative.<\/li>\n<li>Failure to launch&nbsp;an&nbsp;idea because you&#39;ve waited&nbsp;too long.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping quiet during opportune times to sing praises about your company.<\/li>\n<li>A lack of flexibility&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;oftentimes new ideas need to be molded to work.<\/li>\n<li>Squandering funds that should be spent elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#39;ve fallen victim to one&nbsp;or all of these mistakes, then you&#39;ve learned the hard way. Luckily, you can still consider them a win so long as you&#39;ve learned a lesson. Some people even say that failure is crucial when paving the road to success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The silver lining<\/strong><br \/>\nInc. Magazine pointed out that Barbara Corcoran is a firm believer in failure. She urges people to set aside a cache of funds for failures. She also explained that business owners should go and have fun from time to time because epiphanies occur once you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/laura-montini\/barbara-corcoran-s-number-one-innovation-rule.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">step away from your desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;All the small changes that helped grow my business happened when we were playing outside and\/or spending money that we had no business spending,&quot; she says. &quot;I never had a good idea sitting at my desk nor did I harvest a big, game-changing idea around a conference table.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Allow yourself to make mistakes, but learn from them too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The million dollar question that all companies must face is &#8211; why do businesses fail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1892],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.123print.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}