"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."William Butler Yeats
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How Small Businesses Can Outperform Well-financed Competitors
Online, Big Corporations spends huge amount of money on, site building, online survey, advertising, search engine optimization, etc., to attract traffic. But they cannot reach all online surfers, they cannot give them one-on-one customer support. This ...
Small Home Business Survival Skills
As a former human resources professional it intrigues me why some people are more 'successful' than others. By 'successful' we are referring to an innate ability of some people to set and achieve worthwhile challenges for themselves.Here we are using the ...
Small Home Business: Unique Free Advertising For Business Owners
If you find these ideas for free small business advertising a little unusual, that's not surprising. They are. The reason you may have not heard about them is probably because most business people use the same, traditional forms of advertising paths. If ...
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If you are like most businesses owners, you've experienced overwhelm in your business at one time or another. Maybe you experience it regularly and for good reason. Hundreds of things are pulling at you at one time. You've got marketing going, production to oversee, calls to return, employees that need your advice. It's never ending right? How do you possibly handle it all?
Most of the small business owners that I talk to keep almost all of these things in their head. I ask them where their business plan is. It's in their head. I ask where their employee training manual is. It's in their head. About the only thing that's written down is their calendar of appointments. Even a lot of their to-dos are in their head. Here's one simple and powerful way to get out of overwhelm–write it all down.
Your overwhelm is in your head because most of how you run your business is in your head. Start writing it down and you will start having less overwhelm. Start taking a little time each day to document your business processes. Make a list today of the processes that you haven't recorded. Cover marketing, production, training, accounting, etc.
Then take one of these areas and document it in detail this week. Each week, for the next few weeks document another area. Within a fairly short period of time, you should have at least the basics of marketing procedures, production procedures, client follow up procedures, and employee training procedures in place. In other words, you've now got business processes. Processes that you can rely on. Processes you don't have to think about. Processes that you will use to grow your business without all that overwhelm now that it's not all in your head.
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