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7 Tips For Improving Your Business in 2011 Prepared by Shiva Shankar (Shiv)

7 tips for improving your business in 2011

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2011 is right around the corner. This is the time when entrepreneur’s thoughts (aside from those focused on preparing for the holidays, of course) turn towards growing or changing their businesses in the New Year.Smart. Because unless you want to be exactly where you are now, doing exactly what you’re doing today, you need to do something different. Otherwise, you’re guilty of insanity. And, to paraphrase the great ski film maker, Warren Miller, “…you’ll be one year older when you do.”

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7 Tips For Improving Your

Business in 2011Prepared by

Shiva Shankar (Shiv)

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7 Tips For Improving Your Business in 2011

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TOC1.Set a few, specific goals.

2.Make a plan of action for achieving those goals.

3.Go big or go home.

4.Schedule time to work ON your business.

5.Do one thing a day to market your business.

6.Put new information in to get fresh ideas out.

7.Admit that you aren’t superhuman-and be okay with it.

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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1. Set a few, specific goals.

Decide what you want to earn $x per month by a

certain date.

Then figure out how many clients or sales you need per week or per month

to reach that goal.Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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2. Make a plan of action for achieving goals.

Knowing how many sales you need to reach your

goal is just the first step.

You still have to make it happen. So next figure out what steps you need to take to get a client or make a sale. Then get to

work.

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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3. Go big or go home.

You need to take massive action.

So this year make a New Years Resolution to dive in with both

feet and get cracking.Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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4. Schedule time to work ON your business.

Treat your own business like it’s your

best client.

Give it the time and attention it deserves.

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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5. Do 1 thing a day to market your business.

Everyday do the following first thing in the morning

Call past clients, respond to posts on online forums, comment on blogs, write a blog post, submit articles online, do

email follow ups, create an ad…

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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Because most entrepreneurs don’t even do one marketing task a week. So if you do something daily you’ll be way ahead of your competition.

Dan Kennedy Small Business Marketing Strategist

Glazer-Kennedy Insider's Circle™Towson • Maryland • United States

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6. Put new information in to get fresh ideas.

It’s hard to come up with fresh ideas and solutions to problems if you’re always sitting alone.

Read Books, Subscribe to a new magazine, Read other successful entrepreneur’s ezines and blogs... And go to at least one big seminar or conference on business-building, marketing or Internet Marketing.

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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7. You aren’t superhuman.

The way business and marketing have gone, you

simply can’t do it all yourself.

Most people who are able to get tons done aren’t doing it alone. They have coaches,

mentors, Mastermind groups or partners to help them problem solve and launch new ideas.

Shiv | www.silex.co.in

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