Hi everyone, are you thinking of starting a new business, or have you already started it? Well, this article is for you! Falinason inc is a respected restaurant and investor firm and I am going to share with you five fast tips and productive techniques that allow you to grow your business fast. First of all congratulations on starting this journey of becoming a business owner. You are in a very select club, there are a lot of people who dream about it but don't make the first step, so now that you have taken that first step, time for next.
Tip number one: do one sale call every day whether that's a cold call, a warm call, which is your follow-up to something, or it's a real solid lead. If you make the habit of doing one call a day, that has this multiplying effect of you getting a lot of business because, guess what, if you're in a business, you need customers and you need sales to succeed, and if you don't make that a priority you, no matter how daunting the task may be, then your business will fail, and don't forget the stat that most businesses do fail within the first year, and the big thing that Falinason inc have heard from a lot of people is this sales part, that they didn't have enough sales, so don't allow that to happen to you, one phone call a day, or one drop-in, or one appointment, just make it a habit of scheduling that in, that trickle effect has a huge impact as you multiply that over days, weeks, months, so make that one call a day.
Tip number two: delegate to experts from day one. This is a huge mistake most new business owners usually make, it that they try to do it all. Well, guess what, if you're going to grow your business, you have to dedicate your time, energy, and effort to what you do best, which is getting your sales, along with actually executing your tasks of what your business is all about. So, when Falinason inc first started, actually, the first thing they did. They got their own bookkeeper and an accountant because they were not good at that stuff and don't want to be doing it. But they also got themself an amazing assistant/associate that came in the workplace and started cleaning up the documents. So they start focusing on the creation portion, and that just allowed them to grow their business exponentially. Really from day one, because they could take on more. After all, they weren't spending all their time cleaning up stuff, so really think about what is it that you're doing and find an expert who can help you. There are tons of great resources out there that you can go to locally in your area to find out who does what. Alright.
Tip number three: This is my baby, we call it the process book. You can see we're on version 10, volumes 10. So the beauty of this book, when you're the first starting off in a business is it actually gives you everything that you need to make your business successful at your fingertips, and if you're starting to delegate then guess what, there are critical pieces of information in here that you need to give to those who are going to be doing tasks on your behalf, and if you're gonna do more in the amount. The same amount of time or even less time, then guess what, you can't be spending it explaining all the time, so create yourself a process book. In this process book, there are some cool things like administration stuff, if you have a newsletter how you go about doing that, you want to map things out so any steps that are just consistent you want to put in the process book, any phone numbers, contacts you want to put in the process book if you have specific coloring and fonts you use you want to put in the process book if you have suppliers again you want to put it in the process book.
The amazing document, and if you start now, on day one as your company grows, what's cool about it. It's gonna grow with you and it makes it easier for you to take on more people to help you with your business. Huge learning, I actually teach a lot of major organizations to start incorporating this because they don't have this single location of really key information.
Tip number four: is to create a checklist for repetitive tasks, let's be honest you're in business. There's going to be some things you just do over and over and over again, and if you have a checklist for those things that you do over and over again. It helps with the delegation, but not only that, you don't have to think constantly about what do I need for that again. One of the cool things that a businessman used to do, and still do, as had a workshop checklist. I do a lot of workshops to get creative ideas from people and also to process map and project management and brainstorm, and so I created this checklist on workshops so that I just gave it to my associate and they clean up, either after me, when I need them to do stuff, or even beforehand by prepping the workshop bag. Even works for my keynote speaking, we have a standardized checklist of everything we need to be successful and no-one thinks about it. It takes five minutes to get it completed. Awesome way to ensure that you're efficient and effective when you're first starting your business because time is and money and you don't want to be wasting it.
Tip number five: Plan the night before. When you're in your own business. Actually, it doesn't even matter whether it's beginning of a business, if you're a long term business, you really should be planning the night before, you want to strategist what your activities are, you don't want to be thinking about it when you first wake up, you should have a really clear idea as to what it is that you have to get done. Time is money and so you've got to spend it planning, planning is half the battle, that's what makes things go from good to great because when you wake up you hit the road running and you can get a lot of things accomplished. So take that time to plan the night before to be successful in your business. Take these tips, use them, be disciplined about it, and I promise you will see a huge difference and growth in your business.
