Your Business Roadmap

Action

Bev Clement - www.silkroadconsultants.co.uk

Action

There is little point in spending time analyzing and researching your business if it ends there. Too many will do the groundwork and then quit. These will normally be the businesses that will fail. The best business plans are from those people who take action. There is nothing worse than talking with a person who has a problem, who doesn’t want to take any action.

How many times have you seen a person ask a question on a forum, only to come a week later asking the same question? At some stage, another person will ask did you read and act on the advice given. If you are dealing with a person on a one to one basis, they ask for your advice and come back time and time again with the same problem. You ask if they put into practice what you suggested, to be told, “No!”

Frustrated you find you are unable to help them, because they are not prepared to do anything to get out of the situation. Until the person puts into practice what they have learnt they will never, ever leave that situation behind. The same is true with people who want a business.

They want the financial benefits without having to do any work, or they won’t take any action. You will need to have a good idea who is going to do each task within your business. You might need to find a good writer for articles and ebooks, and have a target of a
certain number of articles each week. Set the tasks, the deadlines, and the person to do the job.

As you are building your business you will come across people of excellence who you will want to hire, employ or outsource to. Keep a record of their details, name; email; phone and any other details you might have. When you need to have a job done you already know the people you want your business to work with. Keep you plan handy and use it on a regular basis. Let it influence everything in your business especially as you expand. Imagine your business rapidly expanding, do you really want to have to spend time writing a business plan or trying to work out how the business should run? If you have done the work then it is simply putting into action what you have already planned. If you need to expand, then add to your existing plan.