Start Small Win Big Challenge: Essay Questions

Tell us how your business deserves to win the Start Small Win Big Challenge!

Start Small Win Big Challenge Essay Questions for Judging

Review these questions below for the Start Small Win Big Entrepreneurial Challenge Essay. Your answers to these questions will comprise your essay submission. On Thursday, April 12, SUCCESS will post the Start Small Win Big essay submission form at SUCCESS.com/WinBig. Your answers are due Monday, May 7.

About your business

No. of Employees including Yourself:

Estimated Monthly Revenue:

Monthly Expenses:

Company Motto or Slogan :

Goal setting

From Step 1 of the Start Small Win Big Challenge, what is your WHY? Tell us why you started or are starting your small business.
Of the three goals you set at the beginning of the Start Small Win Big Challenge, which of these proved the most important and why.

Challenges

Name three specific challenges you faced while on the path to achieving your primary goal and how you solved them.
Identify a small victory along the way that led to your achieving the primary goal.
Which three specific steps of the Start Small Win Big Challenge had the most impact on your progress and why?

Results

Did you meet the goal you singled out and set at the beginning of the Challenge? Explain why and how.

How will lessons you learned from this Challenge drive your success in the future?

What else would you like the SUCCESS judging committee to know about your contest submission? (For example, did you comment on the SUCCESS blog, post your weekly victories via social media, enlist a mentor to help or discuss the contest with others?)

Updated: May 1 at 11:43 pm CST.

How will lessons you learned from this Challenge drive your success in the future?

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I am starting my essay this week, and I'm also curious where it is to be submitted? The only guess I have is that everyone who actually registered for the challenge will receive an email with instructions within the next couple days.

Rebecca, Betsy and Birgitta, Great question. After the Start Small Win Big challenge ends on April 10th, we will have a form on the contest website (success.com/winbig) for our participants to submit their essays. The form will be available beginning April 12th. But until then, keep writing and polishing your essays! We recommend that you use a word processing program, so that all you'll need to do to submit your essay is a simple copy and paste. Thanks for participating and we can't wait to hear about your business.

I have another question. In the April issue of Success Magazine it says that our results report is due on April 5th at 11:59 PM Central time. Is the results report the same as our essay? I could not find anything on the Tools page that talks about a results report. If it is the same is the deadline April 5th as it states in the article? Or April 10th as you have so kindly indicated here. If it is not the same where can I find the information so I can have it in on time? Thank you so much for all your help. I am learning so much from this wonderful challenge. Thank you Bluedolphin Crow