Freedom – Balance – Control
If you are like most small business owners you started your business for 1 or more of these reasons.
And, yet if you’re like most small business owners you aren’t satisfying 1 or more of these reasons in your own business.
Usually, it boils down to a few reasons:
- 1. Not enough income
- 2. Demanding clients you can’t fire even if you wanted to
- 3. Too many hours working in the business and not enough time with your family
- 4. Reacting to fires that need to be put out
There is a solution –
Your business success is based on the Business Success Pyramid. If you manage each of the steps in the pyramid, you get all three, Freedom, Balance, & Control.
Reputation
This is the base for your business success. If you don’t have a great reputation the rest of the pyramid doesn’t mean anything. This is the first thing you must manage and market. There’s more information on Reputation Marketing.
Reach
You need to reach out to your prospective community to let them know about your product or service. The old adage “Build a bettter mousetrap and people will beat a path to your door.” is just wishful thinking. There are numerous opportunities today to increase your reach.
Resell
When you have happy, satisfied, customers or clients you have a much easier sell than to someone that hasn’t bought from you before. You must find ways to expand what you add to your products or services that will benefit your clients as well as you bottom line.
Referral
This is the ultimate way to promote your business. Referrals from current, satisfied, clients are the ultimate game changer for your business. One referral is worth 100 cold calls. The referral is pre-sold on your product or service. It doesn’t get any better than that.