10 Small Business Success Secrets
Shh! You don't want everyone to know about what I'm about to share with you.
It's a secret.
That's the problem, too many small business owners feel that there is some big hidden deep secret to running their business: strategies, methods and ideas that other business owners are keeping to themselves.
Here are (what I think) are the biggest small business success secrets.
Ready? No-one looking over your shoulder? Secret 1: there are no secrets.
Although some would 'sell' you otherwise.
If you want to know how one business is more successful than another, all you need to do is compare the space between your ears, and learn and model what's going on between those who are behind hugely successful businesses.
They are not hiding it, most of them want to share it.
Secret 2: Comes from NLP 'you have all the resources you need or you can create them'.
If you know 100% that you are missing some useful and much needed information, knowledge or skills make it your business to find someone or a resource that can teach you it.
And yes, that you may need to pay for.
Secret 3: Stop wasting time, energy and resources on the jobs and tasks that take too long, are draining emotionally and taking time away from what you are expert in.
Find an alternative to get these jobs and tasks done.
Secret 4: Never ever speak ill of your business.
It will become your poison.
Talk it up.
If you are not passionate about the way you think and talk about your business, in time, you may find you cannot convince your customers that you and your business is the one they should be in a relationship with.
Secret 5: You are not and never will be your business.
You are you, and your business is an extension of you.
If you operate with passion, enthusiasm, positivity, determination, motivation, confidence, congruence and integrity then your business will be also.
Secret 6: Mind Your Own Affairs.
Focus on your own affairs first, occasionally glance over and see what others are up to.
Less comparing and more co-operation.
Let them get on with their business and you mind your own.
There is always enough to go around.
Secret 7: Less time in your business and more time on it.
Network as much as possible.
The goal is not to make a sale but to build long-lasting, meaningful relationships.
People (since before the Internet) always did business with people first and not money.
Secret 8: Goals work.
Period! Whether daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.
They are not 'fluff' and they are not just for 'them'.
To do lists are not goals.
Goals have emotion attached and as soon as you read or say them you can picture the end result.
Learn how to set and take action towards goals.
Secret 9: You are not Robinson Crusoe.
You need never feel alone, if you need help look for it and ask for it.
There is nothing graceful in being a business desert island.
Secret 10: Time, resources and other commitments permitting ALWAYS give back.
This is not to make you look like a saint or a martyr, do it because you can and never grumble when doing it.
Businesses that are socially aware are around longer.
It's a secret.
That's the problem, too many small business owners feel that there is some big hidden deep secret to running their business: strategies, methods and ideas that other business owners are keeping to themselves.
Here are (what I think) are the biggest small business success secrets.
Ready? No-one looking over your shoulder? Secret 1: there are no secrets.
Although some would 'sell' you otherwise.
If you want to know how one business is more successful than another, all you need to do is compare the space between your ears, and learn and model what's going on between those who are behind hugely successful businesses.
They are not hiding it, most of them want to share it.
Secret 2: Comes from NLP 'you have all the resources you need or you can create them'.
If you know 100% that you are missing some useful and much needed information, knowledge or skills make it your business to find someone or a resource that can teach you it.
And yes, that you may need to pay for.
Secret 3: Stop wasting time, energy and resources on the jobs and tasks that take too long, are draining emotionally and taking time away from what you are expert in.
Find an alternative to get these jobs and tasks done.
Secret 4: Never ever speak ill of your business.
It will become your poison.
Talk it up.
If you are not passionate about the way you think and talk about your business, in time, you may find you cannot convince your customers that you and your business is the one they should be in a relationship with.
Secret 5: You are not and never will be your business.
You are you, and your business is an extension of you.
If you operate with passion, enthusiasm, positivity, determination, motivation, confidence, congruence and integrity then your business will be also.
Secret 6: Mind Your Own Affairs.
Focus on your own affairs first, occasionally glance over and see what others are up to.
Less comparing and more co-operation.
Let them get on with their business and you mind your own.
There is always enough to go around.
Secret 7: Less time in your business and more time on it.
Network as much as possible.
The goal is not to make a sale but to build long-lasting, meaningful relationships.
People (since before the Internet) always did business with people first and not money.
Secret 8: Goals work.
Period! Whether daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.
They are not 'fluff' and they are not just for 'them'.
To do lists are not goals.
Goals have emotion attached and as soon as you read or say them you can picture the end result.
Learn how to set and take action towards goals.
Secret 9: You are not Robinson Crusoe.
You need never feel alone, if you need help look for it and ask for it.
There is nothing graceful in being a business desert island.
Secret 10: Time, resources and other commitments permitting ALWAYS give back.
This is not to make you look like a saint or a martyr, do it because you can and never grumble when doing it.
Businesses that are socially aware are around longer.
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