After being in business for 13 years I’ve noticed common trends along the way. These 5 tips I’m about to share with you have allowed my business continued growth over a decade so I figured I’d share the top 5 things I learned in business for growth with you.

1. Overtime doesn’t exist!

You either get the job done or the client moves on. When you own your own business, you learn quick to become efficient at what you do, otherwise you end up getting paid less than minimum wage per hour because of how much time you waste spinning those gum filled gears in your head. Having programs like excel, asana, slack to name a few help speed things up big time. If you don’t know how to use these programs I suggest investing in yourself and finding a course on udemy that can teach you or even youtube.com. In fact, youtube.com is how I learned how to use 90% of the programs I use today.

2. Results matter.

You can have the best marketing team in the world and yes that will bring in leads, but if your work sucks, you will never be able to retain those clients. Word will get around that what you do is not up to par and no matter how fast your high priced marketing team can say “but wait, there’s more”, you’ll have a bad rep and you can’t buy your way out that.

3. The shit always hits the fan.

No matter how smooth you run your business, something or someone will inevitably throw a wrench in your face. Whether it’s on purpose or not it doesn’t matter. The fact is you start to put contingency plans in place for this exact reason. You learn when to push forward, pivot, or stop altogether.

4. Delegate,Delegate,Delegate.

You’re good at what you do and there’s nothing wrong with that. Hell, people pay you for it! So why are you wasting time on stuff other people can do better and faster than you? After a few years of being in business I hired a VA (Virtual Assistant). I was tired of spending days on things that took me away from clients and building out my business. Things like e-mail management, social media management, setting up consultations etc. I’m a coach and I’m damn good at it. Sure, I can do everything else but why waste my time. I know how to build a house from the ground up too, but there are other people that can do it faster than me. I’ll stick to coaching.

5. Focus on what you can.

Building a successful business can become overwhelming very quickly especially when you’re doing just about everything yourself. Don’t worry about things that can wait. They pull you away from the Important tasks that really need to be done now. This reminds me of the term “don’t sweat the small stuff”. Check lists usually help most people.

BONUS

6. Done is better than perfect.

I learned this from Anisha Evans. I would sit there trying to make my posts as perfect as I could, delaying them for days, sometimes weeks. This was a big problem. I not only lost massive amounts of time but other people in similar fields would post the same content ideas before me, beating me to the punch. As you may or may not know, in business it’s usually the person that gets seen first that usually wins. So just get it done. Edit buttons exist for a reason.

Thanks For reading. I hope this helps some of you become more productive. Here are some of the links to the places I mentioned above

• jadevirtualpro.com (Virtual Assistant)
• Udemy.com
• Microsoft excel
• Custom coaching
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