If your idea is not gaining traction it may be a good time to start re-evaluating and try to figure out how you can make your idea be a part of something that will be growing in the world so that you will be part of the wave when it starts booming. A lot of success stories are not because of brilliance or thoughtful planning but because someone was at the right place at the right time. You can start positioning your business to be part of something that has a high likelihood of booming in the near futures so that YOU can be in the right place at the right. There is always a lot more room for new entrepreneurs in areas that are growing than in areas that are static or shrinking. For example, it may be a bad place in time if you have an idea to sell a product to Wall Street which is collapsing versus the Green Economy which seems to be getting ready to boom.

Sure there are grants for businesses, but they are going to take some work finding the right one and applying. But the bigger problem with grants is that once you find one place to apply and you get it, you are going to have to find another place to get another one. It is difficult for an organization to keep giving you a grant over and over again. Most grants are there to get your started and not to sustain you. But what can sustain you, and what you can live on over and over again is a contract. The government (federal, state and local) buys most anything you can think of. Everything from broom handles to massage therapists. I even saw where the government spent $30,000 on a freelance priest. My sister frames art for the government in her garage in the middle of Virginia and does over $1 million worth of business with the government all through government contracts.