entrepreneur education – be the maestro

Entrepreneur Education – Be the Maestro in Your

Business

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It’s crucial when you’re running a business that you

play the role of being in charge. You should never submit to your business.

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In this instance, you’re submitting to busy work. Growth doesn’t happen when all you do is busy

work.


Knowing where you are in your business

is crucial.


You should know where you are in your business and then know exactly

where it is that you want to go.


Then it’s a matter of setting up a step-by-

step plan to get there.


You may be saying to yourself – that sounds

too easy.


It IS that easy – entrepreneurs tend to

have the downfall of over complicating things. It

only has to be hard if you make it that way.


Be the Maestro, Here’s the Steps….


Step 1. Set a revenue goal even if your

business is tiny. (My first revenue goal was $500 for

the month!)


Then when you reach that goal the next month reach for

more.


If you have a bigger business you know what to do – Man Up. Set a revenue goal and work toward it. Then next year you’ll compare the

numbers and you’ll know how much to grow.


Step 2. Close out your business each

month.


Know how much came in and how much went out. I’m not talking about making things

pretty for the accountant either – I’m talking about doing this for YOU, so you

know where you are.


Step 3. Decide how much more business

you need.


What do you need in the business to make it

really work? To make the money you want not just what you need.


Now, let me ask you, besides willing it to be so

what are you doing to make that money? How

strategically are you marketing your business?


Step 4. Get down with the times.


Yes the recession came and went, people got a little tighter with their money.

Something else also happened, were you

watching?


The digital age has taken over. We now receive information

much differently than we did in the past. If you’re still

communicating the same way in a changed world of course you’re going to struggle.


The same rules no longer apply. Accept it and make

changes in your business to accommodate it.


I encourage you just once a month to sit down and take a

few minutes out and just reflect, really consider where

you are in your business.


If you’re unhappy in that place, how long will you

stay there?


Take the baton into your hand and play the song you want to hear in your

business, be the maestro.



I hope you found this slideshow helpful in your business please visit me at perfectmarketingequation.com and download my Free Ebook that contains a step-by-step plan to grow a profitable business. The very strategy I use in my own business.

Tammy Hawk-Bridges is an author, entrepreneur mentor and marketing strategist. She provides education and marketing training for entrepreneurs. Connect with her on Twitter @thawkbridges.