Most small business owners start out with high hopes and great intentions—to do something they truly love to do and make a living doing it.

But then reality steps in.

They discover

Small Business Growth Is At The Bottom Of Their To-Do List

because it’s already so jam-packed with all of the things they must do in a day or a week—just trying to keep their business afloat.

And while they dreamed of being self-employed, they never realized how stressed out they’d be just working to make ends meet, worrying about cash flow, and wishing they could spend more quality time with their families.

After all, wasn’t that one of the goals at the beginning, too?

So the focus on growth ends up totally neglected.

And that, obviously, prevents them from being able to grow their business.

But perhaps, if you are in a similar situation, and you knew what NOT to do if you want to grow your business, your opportunities for small business growth could expand.

If You Are Self-Employed And Want To Grow Your Business, here are 17 Tips on

How To Run A Small Business (If You Are After Business Growth!)

1. Never stop thinking about marketing! (And the definition of marketing is: how to get your business from the level where it is at right now to the next level of profitability.)

2. Always think strategy: How can you make your business sustainable and scalable?

3. Don’t be afraid to delegate. To grow your business, you cannot do everything yourself.

4. Know the difference between being a small business and being self-employed. Self-employed is you working for yourself. A small business needs to grow and develop.

5. Develop your own strategy to:

   1. Get new clients in the door,

   2. grow your business relationship with that client continually by offering the best products and services around, and

   3. do unexpected things to let your clients know how important they are to you.
      This will keep your business in a mode of steady growth. This is your ideal.

6. Learn to measure your return on investment (ROI) for everything you do—particularly advertising or other efforts to get and keep new and existing clients.

7. Develop a model for attracting new clients, and then measure against it to rate it’s success—not only in the number of clients garnered but the dollars those clients generate for your business. Tweak it as necessary and continue to measure the effects of your adjustments.

8. Learn how online social networks can be a vital party of your marketing campaign—and then use them. (Don’t forget to measure the results.)

9. Learn what NOT to do that turns potential customers off (i.e., spam, always plugging yourself on the social networks, etc.) and then don’t do it.

10. Learn to focus your time. Do NOT multitask. Instead, work in focused chunks of time to get more done!

11. Position yourself as an expert in your area and charge accordingly.

12. Tell clients WHY they should come to you and tell them WHY about everything you do.

13. Remember that everything is about your client’s needs and desires—and act accordingly.

14. Educate your clients and potential clients about how you can help them achieve what they need and desire.

15. Provide a 100 percent money back guarantee to all your clients. Build trust.

16. Create backend informational products that can generate passive income for your business.

17. Implement new ideas ASAP.

The keys to small business growth are relatively simple and can take you from being “self-employed” to managing your small business and doing what you love most. But only if you implement them!

As always, if you have any other questions I can answer for you, please leave me a comment and I’ll answer them as soon as I can

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