18th October 2011
Here is an outline of the system I have used to plan my time and to track and manage my business building activities for developing my business.
Project Management Plan
I created my project management plan in MS Excel, but you could do it in MS W...
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29th March 2011
What do you measure in your business? Is there something that you monitor on a regular basis that tells you how your business is performing? If not, then you are unfortunately missing out on some great opportunities. You see, there is a saying in busin...
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22nd March 2011
By their very nature, systems and processes tend to be detailed things, and as Entrepreneurs and small business owners you went into business to make money and generally create a better lifestyle for yourself. And for many of us, we have grand visions of...
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23rd February 2011
Systemizing your business can be a bit like trying to eat an elephant. It can be a monster of a job, if you let it. You need to approach systemizing your business like managing any other project in your business. The thing is though most small business ow...
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22nd February 2011
Getting clear on what you want your role to be in your business is essential if you are ever to take yourself out of the "doing" mode of operating and into the "entrepreneurial" mode of operating. As a business owner, you need to be thinking like an entre...
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31st January 2011
The first step, was working out where your current reality was and taking a cold hard look at was and what wasn't working, but the second step to systemizing your business is all about understanding where you need to be in your business for you achieve y...
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17th January 2011
What does systemizing your business really mean? Lots of people talk about it, and lots of people say they want it, but do they really know what it truly means? Well, in this article I'm going to break it down in terms of what it really means and then e...
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12th January 2011
So many small business owners seem to struggle with the people side of managing their business so in this article I thought I would focus on how to prepare a job description in preparation for hiring a new person, whether that person be an employee or a c...
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11th November 2010
When you're in business is so important to understand the problem you are solving for your target market, and not just any old problem you think that they might have, but the absolute number 1 problem that they are experiencing.
Once you can safely say...
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09th November 2010
Have you ever wondered why nothing is ever done the way that you want it, and that your people can never seem to get it right even though it seems like you have told them a million times how to do something? Well, the problem is not that your people are ...
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07th July 2010
When we set out to create business systems, it seems many of us never really have a very good plan in place for how we going to attack such a monstrous task, but one of the most important and fundamental places to start systemizing your business is to loo...
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05th July 2010
Systemizing your business needs to be all about documenting the processes that make up your business. If your a business owner that has all her processes in her head, then you must make it a priority to get them out of your head an onto paper. Having...
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29th June 2010
When you're just starting out in business, it is so important, right from the get go to approach things in a structured manner. This has become very apparent to me over the past year as I have been working a corporate job, whilst planning, preparing, form...
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29th June 2010
Systems are vital to the growth and success of your business. Most entrepreneurs or solopreneurs create a business, run it until it becomes efficient, and then allow someone else to run it while receiving the profits. If this is what you are looking to ac...
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27th June 2010
When you're a fairly new business it can be really hard to "think big" in terms of what you're doing now and how it might be setting you up for the future, in terms of a "growth positive", or a "growth neutral" way. As we start out, we're so excited to be...
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