5. Hire a part-time organizer-computer assistant.

Call your local high school and place an ad for their career center. It's minimum wage usually, and you can double, even triple your business results with just a little help. If you don't promote each day, you lose your momentum and potential buyer’s responses. You can do creating, your assistant can send emails out, clean up your files, and do web marketing.

6. Send out an email survey to discover what's on your potential customer's or client's minds.

Ask them what is number one question they would like to have you answer for them. Then compile questions and answers. Leverage them to place on your web site, place a few in several ezines to add new content, send out as article for opt-in ezines or for web sites, or exchange with strategic partners.

7. Take some time off.

Renew yourself with a walk to hear birds, see green and enjoy smells. On my walks I take a big whiff of Starbucks coffee aromas as I pass by to my local lake. Check out nearby places such as a spa, hot mineral springs, or gardens to be silent. Include more yoga in your day.

8. Get your expenses tallied before tax season.

See what else you can do to get more deductions before year's end.

9. Stop spending time on things you don't enjoy.

Say, "I let go of all that doesn't serve me." Look over your daily to do pages, and instead of dashing from one thing to another, list just 3 High Level Activities you want to accomplish for each day. The trick is to finish them before you wander to another lesser priority.

10. Make promotion and marketing part of your daily life.

Doing a little each day does bring great rewards. You may not get to pick time someone uses your service or product, but ongoing promotion does work. Just found an email from one year ago from a potential client. Today he is with me as a full on client.

These tips are just beginning. Put an easy attitude on as your build your business even during holidays. Then, reward yourself with quality time with friends and family.

7- Innovate- React to customer’s needs before they know they need it. Instead of selling what you want, sell what customer needs. How do you know what they need? Take time to talk to them. At a minimum talk to your best customers and learn from each one you’ve lost. Find out what they would like and what their challenges are. Stay current on market trends in your industry.

8- Leadership vs. Management- Empower your staff to manage themselves. Do you really want to spend your time problem solving? Train them well. Make sure they know vision of company and they are on board because there is a personal win in place for them. The personal win gives employee motivation to cooperate as part of team.

9- Well Oiled Machine vs. Chaos- Is each section of your business operating efficiently while working together towards common goal? Or are members of your team expending time and energy daily putting out fires. What change can you make to shift your business out of crisis/ problem-solving to operating with ease?

10- Develop YOU! - Take a minute to hold your breathe. As you hold your breathe think about what you really want. See what happens. Unless you are uniquely talented you probably had trouble thinking about what you want....because your needs were not being met. When you take care of yourself... feel strong, healthy, happy, and have time and space in your life...you can focus on what you want and attract more to your business.

Take one step at a time and build a strong, solid business. Along way build lots of reserves...time, money, space, revenue sources, future products, etc. and begin filling gap to your potential.

Today’s Dare to Take Action Challenge: Focus on one tip above for one week. What changes can you make? Take action on one, build momentum, and move on. Starting Now!

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