Kill The Turtle - Make Changes In Your Business Life Learning From Failure

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Kill The Turtle - Make Changes In Your Business Life Learning From Failure Whether you are an entrepreneur just starting out down the way to success or are instead a seasoned veteran of entrepreneurship who's experienced your fair share of disappointments and tremendous successes, one of the most significant things that you can realize and understand is how the face of business is changing. With the rapid changes in the way people communicate with one another as well as do their shopping, all things considered, that old strategies to business are falling through the wayside, if you wish to carry on and achieve business success in the long run, you need to understand what many of these changes are. Look at your browser window right this moment. How many tabs do you have open? 4? 7? 10? Perfect metaphor based on how distracted we're today. Your customer's attention is as scattered as yours. If you think your customer is solving their problems with your products alone, you're delusional. Right now, every one of your clients has no less than 4 additional options. I'll bet my right arm, one of these is both cheaper and faster than you. And your top customer has considered switching. Get clear on what your location is and what you need. One of the worst solutions to generate cash is to become haphazard inside your thinking. If you take time to crunch your numbers (you can do this in writing or online inside a spreadsheet), you will have better feeling of where your cash is arriving from and where it's going. Guessing isn't a possibility here. Think of your spreadsheet like a map. It will help you establish where you stand to help you decide in places you have to go, or in this situation, how much more cash you have to generate. Expand your services and offerings. Review what you are currently offering your customers and discover to expand those services. Consider adding a VIP Day or half day in your offerings and charge accordingly. Clients covers hours of focused, undivided attention of your stuff while you strategize with them on his or her business or area of interest. You can offer today in person or virtually, via phone or online video streaming. Jump start this by contacting top customers with your new customized VIP day offer. Offer to upgrade current clients you know may need a customized medium.com/@ericcorl full or half day of your undivided attention. Also, remember to market your new offerings for your list! Raise your rates. Now, this is a simple, but overlooked approach to increase earnings. Do you know that a lot of people would rather increase the amount of clients, and make more work with themselves instead of raising their rates? It's true. If this sounds like you, contemplate why you're not raising your rates and see what beliefs show up for you personally. Then contemplate why you feel that. And then just raise your rates anyway. I'm serious. The only person stopping you against increasing money is you. The people that expect more, get it. But you won't get it if you do not actually lift up your rates and request it.


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