7 Special Steps for Small Business Success

You may have hit a rut in the past, while trying to develop your business idea.

Maybe you had no idea what you were supposed
to do next in order to get your business off
the ground, or perhaps you have a great idea,
but you just weren’t sure how to start.

I know that I have been stuck in some
really frustrating situations in the past.

When I was just starting in information
marketing I developed a product over a period of
a year and spent a ton of money on advertising,
only to find out that the customers I was targeting
had no interest in my product whatsoever.

The one human trait that is inside every single
one of us is the lack of motivation.

We have to trick ourselves sometimes in order
to get off our rear ends and moving in the
right direction.

If you don’t get good enough at tricking
yourself, your project can get put on hold
for months, even years… or a lifetime.

I know how hard it can be to get motivated,
and I am an ultra-self-motivated person, but
it’s still really easy to NOT do anything
some days.

In order to combat that, I’ve developed a
little list of things that can help any small
business owner keep moving and stay motivated
even when the project that you are working
on is about as fun as a rock licking contest.
So without further adieu, here goes:

1. Create the world’s smallest to-do list. Now,
I don’t know about you, but I LOVE keeping lists.
I have them everywhere. However, sometimes I tend
to put too many to-do items on them. A great way
to combat that is to pick 2 things that will help
your small business that day and don’t go to bed
until those 2 things are done.

2. Give yourself stupid-easy goals. The one reason
that we lack motivation many times is that we
tend to want to complete the entire project in one
sitting or we don’t want to do it at all. Give
yourself really easy goals and when you accomplish
them quickly it makes you want to do more, and you will.

Think of things like “contact one customer,” or “write
one paragraph of a sales letter.” Things like that.

3. Fail fast. Get your product out to market ASAP.
Open your store. Get your idea in front of a customer.
If you keep analyzing and redoing things, making
sure they are perfect, you will never get your
small business off the ground. Get your idea in
“good enough” shape and get it out there to let your
customers decide whether or not it’s a winner.

4. Never make the same mistake twice. I used to
make the same mistakes over and over until I
started to analyze each mistake after it happened.

Make a quick list on some scrap paper, of the
things that went wrong and WHY they went wrong. This
simple act of writing things down will engrave
the event in your subconscious and prevent you
from repeating it.

5. Always think about the next step. For a small part
of every day, you need to dedicate some time for
free thinking and brainstorming. As a small business
owner, you need to make sure that you are thinking
of ways that you can bring in multiple streams of
income and building your business on a solid
foundation.

6. NEVER multi-task. I am still working on this one
really hard. We live in a world that is traveling
at warp speed around us. We think that we need to
do ten things at once in order to get ahead.

The problem is that each time you add something to
your current list of things, you are diluting the
work you are putting into the project by the amount
of things on your plate.

If you have 4 things you are doing at once, each
item is only operating at 25% of the capacity that
it could be. This is the OPPOSITE of fast and efficient.
Pick one thing, finish it, move on to the next.

7. If it’s not fun, stop. Finally, here is the key
to motivation and happiness in small business. If
you don’t like what you are doing, then find something
that you do like.

Of course your business is not going to be bunnies,
sunshine, and flowers all the time, but if you dread
your business and you hate what you are doing, your
customers are going to hate it too, and pretty soon
there will be no business to worry about.

Whew. I think that’s enough for today.

Let me know what you think. What’s your number 8?

Until Tomorrow,

Joshua Black

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