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  • Krissy Jackson
    Krissy Jackson    Utente Premium   Moderatore gruppo
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    Top ten New Years Resolutions for small Business owners.
    1. Make and respect your office hours

    This is important for people who have trouble settling down
    to and concentrating on their work and people who are so
    driven that they forget to make time for themselves.

    Set hours that suit you. This can be 9 – 5 8pm – 3am or any
    combination that best suits you and your business.

    Now let everyone know that these are your working hours and
    that you will be unavailable to family and friends during
    these times. Now make sure you use this time to work. If you
    don’t respect your working hours, you can’t expect anyone
    else to.

    When your working day is complete – stop working!


    2. Begin each week with a set of goals and each day with a
    to do list.

    Mark Joyner sets out an excellent 15 minute daily plan in
    his Simpleology course.Taking 15 minutes to plan your day
    means that not only will you achieve more, nothing will slip
    through the cracks and you will manage projects effectively.
    http://tinyurl.com/vf2tn

    3. Organise your office.

    Don’t start the day with a desk overflowing with papers.
    Have a place for everything and everything in it’s place.

    If you work from home give your office the respect it
    deserves. This is the place you earn money to support your
    home. It is not the ironing room, the junk room or the place
    where you hide mess when guests come over.

    Make a point of organising your office before January 1st.


    4. Set aside time for social and business networking every
    week.

    This can be a physical event or a forum you are involved in
    on the internet. If you’ve not tried business networking on
    the internet, I’d like to invite you to come and join me on
    Biz Building Blocks or The Entrepreneurs Playground on Xing.


    5. Practice delegating

    2007 is the year when you will stay on top of your book
    keeping and invoicing – How? By hiring someone to do it for
    you.

    Unless you are a book keeper this is not your area of
    expertise. And before you say you can’t afford one – stop
    breath and think about how many valuable hours you waste
    thinking about getting your book keeping done and getting
    around to invoicing and then following up on late paying
    customers.

    Remember if you are late invoicing this gives a
    subconscious/or maybe even conscious message to your
    customers that this payment is not urgent.


    6. Buy Business Plan and Marketing Plan Pro software.

    This is great software! Build yourself a professional
    business and marketing plan.

    This doesn’t have to be done in a week or a month. Set time
    in your weekly plan to play with it for half and hour
    everyday in the beginning and then later for half an hour
    every week.

    These plans are not something you do and then put them in
    the filing cabinet. They grow and expand with your vision
    for your company.

    Remember if you don’t know where you are going – that just
    where you could end up NO WHERE. Make sure you have a target
    and goals for your business.
    http://tinyurl.com/vzo8j

    7. Promote your business consistently

    Your business will die if your customers don’t know about
    you. If you think you hate marketing get some advice in
    January about how to market inexpensively and effectively to
    your desired cliental.

    Start by signing up for marketing expert Robert Middleton’s
    newsletter. http://tinyurl.com/yxgzzf


    8. Keep learning

    Small business owners, especially those working from home
    often get left behind because they are not part of ongoing
    education programs.

    Join your Governing Federation or National Association and
    go to residential or online courses which will further your
    education in your field. Better still volunteer for a
    position on a committee and keep up-to-date with everything
    that is going on in your particular field.

    9. Enjoy personal and family time

    Small business owners often choose to start up on their own
    just so that they can enjoy quality of life and family time
    that are not afforded to their by long commutes and climbing
    the corporate ladder. Unfortunately often the first thing to
    be forgotten in the struggle to build a business are just
    these two things.

    Build quality of life into your schedule and keep to this
    commitment.


    10. Join the gym or a team playing your favourite sport.

    Your business depends on your health. Make exercise the most
    important appointment in your diary.

    Getting fat, unfit and even sick is not the reason you started
    your own business.

    When you take better care of your health you are taking
    better care of your business.
    http://tinyurl.com/y9d5hn
    • 27/12/2006, 15:09
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