Business is the unwritten language of the world. From buying a hamburger at McDonald’s to closing a corporate deal, to bargaining with your kids for a slightly later bedtime, everything we do involves business. And with good reason. We live our lives based on varying standards of value. Without a medium of exchange, we’d have no way of valuing who has what, who contributes what, and who owes what to whom. Business isn’t all about finance, but it’s very much about economics. And it’s a game anyone can win.
In business, always be professional. Be well dressed, polite. Put your best foot forward. Smile, be confident. Groom yourself. Dress well, and remember the cornerstone to success in business is fairness, fairness, and more fairness in every transaction.
Business is a broad topic, and as such, here are few broad strokes if you will, to help you on your way. First, never borrow more than you can pay back in a month. Never do business with family or a friend you don’t want to lose, over an amount big enough to lose a friendship over. Say, renting a house from family. Always pay your debts and taxes, and consult a finance professional for investment advice.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with business. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Business and Work Life
- Business plan of my organization is frustrating me because I don’t see too much of business coming through.
- A business presentation. was trying to hit all the right points rather than just having a conversation
- Lost business to a competitor who utilized unethical business practices to capture the business.
- I own a business and struggle to ind the direction needed to move forward.
- Doing my business plan, its so frustrating because i don’t know how to do it. i fell so stupid.
- Had short business trip and wanted to stay home. Had other things I would have preferred doing even though I personally enjoyed the trip and felt like I accomplished a great deal.
- Encourage a business partner to get their share done on time.
- Complete my business plans. It’s frustrating because it seems too obtuse and I wasn’t given any training or direction.
- Cold calling businesses. This is frustrating to me because I don’t have the right personality for this. I am out going but hate the feeling of talking to someone that wants nothing to do with me.
- I have to grow business in a part of my territory that will not grow
- Decide on a new business direction. I’m not really certain of what I want.
- Starting my own business can be frustrating at times, because the money I had put toward the initial start-up was not sufficient enough of an amount to hire employees to help me get done what I would like to in a certain time frame.
- Getting my mom’s business together, reason being is th hat I was not prevy to the workings and order of such that it is very hard to gather paper and documents.
- Build a strategic business plan because it closed out on other opportunities to do things.
- Balance field work, business, and running a home. I feel there’s never enough time in a day
- Write a plan for our business segment, knowing that there will be numerous barriers to implementing it, no leadership to campaign for it, and very disjointed support behind it.
- Have connected with a business that has made me confused because the owner is not telling the whole story
- Write up a contract for a business member. It was frustrating because I don’t really enjoy negotiating.
- I had to help create a family business. It was only annoying because I had a headache, but I didn’t want to stop.
- Complete some marketing for a business. This is frustrating because I do not know what I am doing and it is out of my comfort zone, which makes me feel trapped.
- Working under someone who has no business sense, which leads to lack of payment.
- Make myself take action to build my business. Why ? Because I know What i must do but find excuses not to…….
- Currently I fraustrited about how my business is up and down and should I build it up by advertising or start another business. That I have always wanted to do or write a book or work on invention I just received my bachelor’s degree.
- Talk to people about why I’ve left the business, discussing the same thing over and over is frustrating.
- Having to come up with an essay for my business school application, especially since I was rejected last year and one of my biggest fears in life is being rejected
- Target pressure and guilty feeling when business could not be delivered,and feeling monotonous
- Figuring out my target market for my new business – hard to do with so many passions and options.
- Had to convince my best friend for doing business with me. But i couldn’t convince him, so it was frustrating as i wasted a lot of time there.
- Applying new things I have learned to my business development. Its something I have never done before and I find that I am questioning myself on what I am doing. Is it right? Does it flow? etc
- Uncertainty of the ever changing mortgage business and whether or not I was following the current rule.
- To realize that I have been right about a business recommendation but not assertive enough to impose it.
- Doing work that doesn’t directly help our business and is beneath what I am able to offer the business.
- Being able to identify the element in our business that is not performing and the cause of losses but feeling powerless or lacking the skills to precipitate corrective action.
- I have not placed into action my dream job/business. Frustrated that I can not see all the steps needed to launch this yet.
- Decide in what direction I will take my new business. It’s frustrating because I can’t figure out what to do.
- WAITING FOR AN OPPRTUNITY TO COME FOR MY NEW BUSINESS VENTURE COS I HAVE TOTALLY RELIED ON MY DECISION OF DOING BUSINESS AND NOW I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO
- For me multitasking different aspects of life…my business, relationship, personal life, family, and things within my business … creativity, accounting, consult time, follow up time.. I start feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.
- I’ve moved to a city to be closer to my family. My new business has drained my bank accounts, along with my new mortgage. I’m homesick and exploring my other options. Frustrating indeed
- Organising my home life whilst supposedly working on my business. It’s frustrating because I feel I should use valuable daytime to be productive at work, but I am drawn to feeling a sense of order within my home.
- I don’t feel valued for my opinion on how to improve our business.
- Co-workers lacking in motivation and slowing the flow of business. Having to try to make up for multiple people slacking off by working more than should be expected of me.
- Go off somewhere, in which I did not want to go while having business to attend for a friend.
- Trying to find balance between pursuing my passions/growing my business and time for family, friends and self care is always a struggle/frustrating.
- What am i supposed to do? Shall I pursue this career as a small business owner, or get a regular job?
- Just join in a new workplace, everything is new, new co-workers, new business, new positions, feel the work rhythm is too slow for me to really get into it quickly, so i feel kind of frustrating.
- License on Hold. Need to give excuses to customer which is affecting my business
- Poor health makes it hard to feel accomplished. In efficiency of others in business makes me crazy!
- Trying to make my father understand that i have no interest whatsoever in his business or to work with him.
- I had to do the laundry on the assigned laundry day. Alone, since hubby is on business trip. Walking 4 floors down into a cold basement laundry room, 5 times per night from 6pm to 11pm is NOT fun.
- I am trying to find the answer to my clients problem. It’s a revamp of how our business works, and it’s exciting, but I can’t quite put my finger on the solution.
- Had to present a strategy. Frustrating when you need to inform the leaders of a business why planning is crucial
- People who try to involve themselves in my personal life. My private life is my business, i don’t like people trying to give their opinions on things that they fully understand or when they assume that they know what’s best form me.
- Having to explain the most frustrating thing I had to do to a website that had no business asking. Because asking was rude and annoying and I did not want to answer.
- The most frustrating thing i did this week was to find sources of low interest loans for business. It was frustrating because the writers that had the information online want to sell it at expensive prices.
- I need to figure out what career to pursue next or at least what industry or field of study or business to get involved with that will be most fulfilling for me.
- Tracking down a vendor who did not return phone calls in a timely manner. This is not the way to do business.
- Clean, laundry, CPR course.. Frustrating because it takes away time with my family and working on my business
- The most frustrating thing that i had to deal with is the constant pressure to enter into the family business as per my dad’s wish, in which m clearly not interested.
- I had to work all day for three days to complete my 2013 income tax. I use the long form and have a antique business with a home office.
- Most frustrating thing was to decide on should I continue on a project that could have turned out to be a good business or do something else. Decided to do something else and now I need to go back to the drawing board and start over.
- I have 3 things: Not enough time to get things done. Delegating is hard for me due to the sensitive nature of my business. Personality differences
- Trying to figure out how to earn money and what line of work to choose. whether to take up a job or to do my own business.
- I don’t have one, but the last one that I had was with a family member. I didn’t feel like there was anywhere to grow with the business.
- I am frustrated about finding the best ways to get my name/branding out in the public so that I can seriously create work in my own business as an Organizer Coach.
- I find it frustrating having to continually explain decisions I have made and the logic behind them to people who think they understand the business of Flight Test.
- Working on my full-time job as my relationship with my CEO is very frustrating and the full-time job is also preventing me from working on my own business. which I want to run full-time
- Getting through my work day when I just want to work on my own projects. I work with great people but the work itself isn’t engaging and I have started working on my own business and just want to spend more time on that.