A Bunch of Fives!

Here's a list of five things to do that will put your business on the fast track in the year ahead

• Talk to at least five percent more past, present and potential clients every day
• Find five ways to improve your product/service
• Find five ways to get more out of your staff
• Find five ways to make more profit
  
• Find five ways to get more sales

• Find five ways to improve understanding of how sales and marketing work
• Find five ways to improve operational efficiency
• Find five ways to spread the work load and not be so dependent on yourself
• Find five ways to use money get used more effectively
  
• Find five ways to improve financial planning

• Find five ways to spend more time ‘on’ and less time ‘in’ the business
• Find five ways to communicate the vision and purpose to the team
• Find five tasks to finish or dump that have been hanging around
• Decide five decisions you want to make
  
• Focus on five ways to enjoy your social/private life even more

• Find five ways to maximise your time
• Find five ways to congratulate yourself on your successes
• Find five ways to spend a little more time thinking and a little less time doing, but also…
  
• Find five ways to be a bit more spontaneous!
• Find five new connections you want to make

• Find five big steps you want to make

Decide five of the above list that you are going to do in the next five days!

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Robert Craven is a keynote speaker and author of the business best-sellers 'Kick-Start Your Business' and 'Customer Is King'. He has recently been described as 'one of the UK’s leading marketing specialists' and the 'entrepreneurship guru'. He runs The Directors’ Centre, helping growing businesses to grow.
For further information, contact Robert Craven on 01225 851044. (rc@directorscentre.com) www.directorscentre.com

Robert Craven©2007, Better Business Magazine, Feb 2007

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Published in Better Business Magazine, Feb 2007.