Make This the Year You Get Really Focused in Your Small Business – Because… Focus = Results

–>> Without a clear focus on what you’re selling, how you’re marketing and to whom you’re marketing how do you expect to really become more successful?

This is one of the most difficult things for small business owners that I see which holds them back.

There is so much you need to do these days in your business just to even keep it afloat much less make a ton of money. Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed in this new year?

If your goal isn’t to make a ton of money that’s ok but either way, you need to market more and be very focused in what you’re offering online and in person or people will find it hard to understand why or how you can help them or why they should buy your stuff.

So where do you start to create YOUR Big Picture Plan?

Here are some key elements that your plan might consist of:

• How much money you need to make this coming year?
• - Break down your annual revenue goal into monthly increments so you can then determine how many clients/customers you need to get to reach that goal.
• What new programs, products or services do you want to launch and when?
• - What needs to be in place to make sure that happens efficiently
• What personal goals do you have (vacations, time off with family each week, relationship focus, self care, etc)
• What marketing will you tweak or add this year to reach more of your ideal target market
• How many clients will you need in order to reach those money goals? Figure it out.

Now, what are the steps you need to take to reach those goals? Do you know?

Do you have those plotted out as well? This part is crucial. Some people just write down the goal but then stop there. You want to break each goal into bite size pieces or tasks that you can then do or accomplish every week, month or quarter to reach those goals and make them manageable. Hence, being focused.

Sometimes you will need to focus more on the inner workings of your business and the systems it takes to serve more customers or sell or follow up with more prospects to turn them into customers.

Other times its about focusing more on the marketing and lead generation (once you have those systems in place).

Here are my top 11 Marketing Strategies that you probably want to make sure you are focusing on this year.

• Networking in person
• Speaking in person or online/phone/radio
• Social Media marketing and networking (using my messaging system is preferred in order for this to really work for you!)
• Being a vendor/exhibitor/sponsor at live events (I teach this in my Tradeshow Networking Tool Kit)
  
• Co-promoting with other complimentary business owners (there’s a whole bunch of things you can do for free with others to promote each other)
• Phone calls (soooo important!)
• Video marketing – create tips, a video channel and more
• Blogging – good, consistent, keyword rich content drives traffic
• Offer freebies/bonuses/gifts, etc. for promos for others, launches and more
• Testimonial marketing
  
• Publicity (missed opportunity for most small business owners)
  

I shared this information in much more depth on a training call I did a couple weeks ago in my Silver Mentor Coaching Program. You can have access to that and 6 months of additional call recordings and trainings and more when you register for that program for $97 online at www.MentorSignup.com. (You can cancel anytime but go get this info at least, it can totally help you focus this year on what to do in your marketing and how!)