4 Tips For Growing Your Business In One Month
Great ideas for getting your profits moving fast
1. Spend Three Hours A Day Calling Potential Buyers
In my experience, 80% of businesses suffer from the owner not spending enough time connecting with people who can write a cheque.
If your business isn’t growing then get on the phone and reach out to potential clients. It’s not fancy, and for many it’s scary, but generally it will get the cash registers ringing faster than any other method.
2. Work Only On New Business Until 11 A.M.
The trouble with most businesses is that they have become havens for paperwork, meetings and bureaucracy. Too often entrepreneurs get caught up in all this non sales related activity then suddenly realize the day has ended and the company once again has not increased it’s revenue.
This needs to stop. And one of the best ways to do that is to have a rule that you and the key stakeholders in your company spend their mornings until 11am on income increasing activities. Unless you do this important stuff first each day you will usually find it doesn’t get done at all.
3. Introduce The Closed Door
Managers everywhere are always talking that they have an open door policy – staff can come by and visit them anytime. Forget it. Being that available will fragment your thinking and fill the day up with the non vital. Close your door and get to work in silence for at least three 90 minute blocks of time. Yes, it’s hard to discipline yourself to do this, but the future growth of your enterprise depends on it.
4. Constantly See Yourself As A Top Level Entrepreneur
You will only be as successful as your self identity allows. Nobody can consistently perform at a higher level than they deep down believe they should be at.
So be careful what you think about yourself. As high performance expert Brendon Burchard puts it, “Don’t let your small business make you small minded”. Work on your self image, treat yourself as a top level business person and then behave in accordance with that vision. In the end, business success is a mental game – you need to take the time to work on your positive mindset daily.
Give these tips the 30-day test. Live them for the next month and see how quickly they can improve your business.
Read the full article at: forbes
Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.
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