Download PDF of the post2011 is over. It is time to look at things with new perspective and create some resolutions of your own. Here are 100 of them from me. It took me three days to compile this list. Take whatever your like. A lot of them are going to become posts in the blog in future
- Learn about business planning
- Network a lot before
- Develop a razor sharp focus on business area
- Listen to your customers
- Use social media to promote your business
- Create a blogging strategy for business
- Understand risk planning
- Treat employees well, motivate them
- Don’t be afraid to experiment
- Don’t be discouraged by disappointment – Have patience
- Take care of your health – walk and exercise
- Use credit wisely
- Set up reachable goals
- Prioritize your tasks
- Stop attending meetings without a set agenda
- Reward your great employees
- Keep an eye on trends in technology
- Learn a few technical concepts
- Create an ebook, teach people
- Concentrate on customer retention than acquisition
- Develop your brand – avoid line extension
- Participate in forums and events
- Be original , authentic and consistent
- Find a mentor
- Do not be scared of grunt work
- Ask your friends for suggestions and feedback
- Do not be scared to talk about your business
- Do not reveal your business to everyone
- Develop a vision and it need not be about making money
- Discover new friends
- Talk about new friends and their business
- Keep the passion and spirits high
- File your taxes on time
- Create value for customer, move out of the commodity business
- Optimize resources , be a contributor to the economy
- Do not neglect your family
- Target global as well as local customers
- Create partnership
- Think of monetizing your work
- Think about productizing the services
- Plan about developing authority in your fields
- Ship fast, ship early
- Put your employees and yourself into training
- Develop financial intelligence
- Create your own path
- Give away a freebie to your customers
- Highlight your success stories
- Let your employees write posts for your blogs
- Highlight your best practices
- Showcase the testimonials
- Participate in trade shows, local events etc.
- Showcase your business plan to venture capitalists
- Develop marketing campaigns to entice customers
- Improve usability of your product
- If possible do some charity
- Encourage and use employee feedback
- Explore outsourcing a part of your business
- Prioritize your activities
- Improve your business website
- Explore new channels of sales
- Take care of cash flow – do better planning of cash flow
- Ask friends to help your business
- Re-activate old contacts one per day
- Create tutorials for using your products
- Develop more confidence than you had last year
- Think of a little diversification of income or product line
- If possible create videos of your business and post them online
- Celebrate every small success
- Celebrate employee’s birthday
- Concentrate on your niche more than ever
- Create and respect interaction with your customer
- Underpromise and overdeliver
- Cut costs where possible without cutting quality
- Think like a leader not a manager
- Set realistic goals for employees. Appraise them wisely
- Learn to compete with larger business
- Think of using CRM system for your company
- Partner with larger business
- Diversify from a single customer
- Plan customer delight but be careful
- Pamper early adopters
- Study and copy best practices of other organization
- Study the progress with respect to last year
- Keep backup of important data
- Think of ways of converting your hobby to business
- Learn to say NO when you need it
- Learn from the experts in the field
- Think about intrapreneurship if you are a big company
- Deploy collaborative tool in your company
- Learn negotiation skills
- Learn about project management
- Implement employee friendly policies
- Find the right niche and exploit it to the hilt
- Read Daria Steigman’s blog on business
- Start creating a management team if you have not done so already
- Inspire others and be inspired
- Think of long term vision but keep an eye on short term
- Be practical, quick thinking and inquisitive
- Be proud of being the entrepreneur
- Isn’t 99 enough? Read this list again from start
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Great list Ashvini….I am really very happy to read this. I can know a lot of things from this post mostly new things which I never found from any other source. The best point to me –
Think of ways of converting your hobby to business
I think I should work on this seriously…
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Hi Aswani
Glad that you could find something from the list for yourself. It took me more than three days to complete the whole list. I hope you can follow your dreams and set up goal for converting your hobby to business
Very impressive list, Ashvini. What’s also impressive is how many topics you have covered in your blog. This would be a great blueprint for topics for you in the coming year.
My favorite one is to celebrate employees’ birthdays. It’s a sensible way to help employees feel valued.
Well done, Ashvini.
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Hi Carolyn ,
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Thanks for your appreciation. It was really tough writing this thing .
Celebrating employee’s personal achievements and events goes a long way in motivating them. They feel related and appreciated. I have learned it in from one of the companies I worked at. It really was fun to have birthdays over there (except for the kicks on the bum
Have a great day
Hi Ashvini,
This is a terrific list, and not just because you’ve included my blog on it.
This list is probably a great roadmap for your blogging this year.
A number of these need to be on my list as well. I’m already implementing #18 — I signed up to learn how to code (codeyear.com). Not because I necessary want to become a coder, but I want to understand how to do it and be able to talk the talk (at least a little).
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Hi Daria,
Your blog definitely has its own special place here at my blog. Infact it is a source of more ideas for me.
I congratulate you on start of your journey towards coding. In my opinion software coding and design is a very complex and challenging task. But you are going to have a lot of fun doing that.
Have a great day and enjoy your journey towards coding
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