Top tips to become business confident

• Select/ Choose your business do something you love ,believe in and feel passionate about and your energy, enthusiasm for what you are doing will carry you forward, giving you the confidence you need.
• Know your market. Research gives you confidence about your competitive advantage.
• Build a support network. Your self-esteem is higher when you feel that others also care about where your business is going.
• Preparation. If you have answers to "what's the worst that could happen?" then you will be ready for anything. Ask a good friend to listen to your presentation to give your positive and negative feedback - practice practice practice.
• Networking - Listen to others presentating - Take notes on which went well and not so well and learn from these experiences.
• Look after your most valuable resource - yourself. Bolster your self-esteem by getting enough rest and exercise and eating well.
• Accept that sometimes you will feel the fear and do it anyway. Being nervous is a normal physiological response. It will keep you alert and ready for any challenges rather than becoming complacent and stale.
• Measure exhaustively. If you don't measure - sales, enquiries, cash flow, repeat business - then you will not see success and achievement.
• Celebrate success and achievement, however small. When you reach targets, finish difficult tasks or simply survive the week then give yourself a small treat.
• They can't see inside you. If you do have a bad day remember that other people cannot see your stomach churning . They can only see you.
• On a final note, when you are going to present - take a moment to change your state of mind to being positive - practice this over and over again. The positive energy you embrace and change your state of mind can be the most powerful tool you posses.