You did not build a business so that you could spend 7 days a week working, never seeing your wife or kids, pretending to have hobbies you never do, and taking one holiday a year.
You start a business because you know you can make it a success, your first year you work like a dog obsessed with it, you are every function from legal to HR to sales. It then grows and you become more and more busy, so you work harder, and you console yourself that you are building something great. Now the business remains busy, but is not growing, and you have little time to think about strategy, new ideas, new products, because you are too busy dealing with the day to day. There are two options; plateau here for the long term, money will be ok, but you have no time to live your life. Option two - you learn to let go, utilise the resources and technology at our fingertips like never before, and allow you to focus on driving a great business forward not just running a mediocre one.
Launch You
There a number of ways to take back control of your time. The first revolutionary idea is simply change the way that you sell. One of our most successful clients ran a traditional business for over a decade, employing over 40 staff, a full sales team outbound calling daily, the majority of their business coming face to face. He found it exhausting, and limiting as there simply wasn't enough time to reach full capacity. We live in a world today where the majority of purchases are now online, at all times of day, and all over the world. You can move your business from weekdays 9-5 focused on a limited local market, to 24/7 completely automated and with a market spanning the entire globe product dependent. Imagine the freedom over your time, and increase in income if you could work from anywhere with a laptop, with a hugely increased target market, making money while you sleep not just in working hours. Launch You is a superb course that takes you pragmatically through how to build and drive an online business. and having completed it ourselves we couldn't recommend it more, it will revolutionise your business and lifestyle way beyond simply increasing productivity of a traditional business.
We live in a world with so many fantastic platforms and software that will save you thousands of hours of typically administrative work, time that can be utilised to focus on growing the business, or giving you time for an extra two weeks on a beach!
Blaze AI
AI has the ability to transform by taking time consuming tasks and completing them professionally at the click of a button. Blaze is a fantastic tool using AI to create personalized social media, blogs, newsletters, and websites in your brand voice and style. Marketing is key to your success, and this makes it fast and easy.
Pipedrive
Another excellent CRM system, Pipedrive is particularly good for sales driven companies. It offers powerful sales reporting and analytics, as well as deals won, lost and in progress. It can be a good tool to easily identify sales opportunities and look for bottlenecks and sales velocity, as well as managing team performance.
AI for Business Innovation
AI will completely change the way we work in the future, and it has begun. Those companies who don't take advantage of the benefits will simply fall behind, it can improve efficiency, analyse customer and competitor behaviour, automate tasks, and much more. This is an excellent course showing you how to implement AI in your business and where it can be of benefit.
HubSpot
We see many small businesses growing and trying to run their companies from excel to save the cost of a CRM. From experience, please accept that if you want an efficient, streamlined, professional company that can scale, you need a good CRM system. This will make you more efficient, and free up time for more important tasks. HubSpot is a market leader, tried and tested, syncs to all your other systems with a click, it's worth exploring further.