Here are the top 7 things that entrepreneurs, business owners, and independent professionals must do every single day:- Revisit your goals, milestones, and metrics for the day, week, month, and quarter (financial, marketing, sales, operations)...
Ramifications if not done daily - you lose sight of the big picture and get pulled off your game by distractions, trivia, and grunt work.
- Put new prospects on your radar via strategic outreach...
Ramifications if not done daily - your sales and marketing start to slip and you suffer from the feast-or-famine small business sales rollercoaster.
- Thank your team - whether in-house, outsourced, full-time, or virtual...
Ramifications if not done daily - your team loses their motivation, momentum, and mojo. Once that's gone, they're halfway out the door.
- Offer value - in terms of content, your blog, a video, a resource, a referral, a favor, a gift...
Ramifications if not done daily - you become just more marketing noise and customers and prospects tune you out and see you as a peddler, not a partner.
- Invite engagement - online, offline, in-person, by phone or Skype; ask and answer questions, solicit feedback, invite comments, send a survey...
Ramifications if not done daily - your business becomes isolated as you talk AT your customers and clients rather than talk WITH them.
- Recharge your batteries - just like the airlines say, "secure your own mask before assisting others"...
Ramifications if not done daily - entrepreneurial burnout, stress, drinking, drugs, and divorce. Don't laugh - you could be next.
- Be gracious and grateful - take a moment to appreciate what you have, what you've built, and who you get to serve each day...
Ramifications if not done daily - instead of becoming more and more fulfilling, your business success becomes a trap, a race, and a never-ending contest that you can never win. Stop and smell the coffee!
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