New Business Resolutions for 2012
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5 Easy Tasks to Check off Your List
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. –Abraham Lincoln
It’s time to get a handle on our business and clear out 2011 stuff and make new Current file folders. While you may have your own resolution to loose a few pounds, cut credit card debt, or spend more quality time with your family, your business could probably use a few resolutions of its own. But often we think our resolutions can be overwhelm-
ing and, quite frankly, unachievable. You can easily do these five realistic business goals for the New Year: You must take Action!
1. Organize all contact information
If you’re like most small business owners you have business cards, scraps of paper with contact information, and maybe even a notation or two in your planner of potential clients. They’re doing you no good scattered around; Do this NOW: gather them all together and organize them into a rolodex or electronic file that makes it easy to look up individuals and actually contact them! It really takes less time then hunt & locate.
2. Contact potential clients regularly
Now that you’ve organized all your contact information, it’s time to devise a plan for actually contacting these people by just putting it on your calander. For some reason or other you know they qualified as potential clients; now it’s time to give them the chance to request your services. Determine the method of contact you feel most comfortable with: phone calls, mailings, lunch appointments, gift calendars. You need to remind these people, without being pesky, that your services will enhance their lives.
3. Back up your hard drive
While this is a boring resolution, it’s definitely something that you can check off in one day. You need to perform this regularly so put it on your calender too, but if you don’t, today is the day to start; don’t wait until your computer crashes to regret not performing this resolution. You have lots of crucial, financial information that clients expect you to manage. If you loose it, you also loose your credibility, and that can cost you more than you can imagine.
4. Increase your staff
When you think of this resolution, all you might see in your mind are dollar signs. But if you hire right, you can train an employee to perform monotonous accounting tasks for less than you charge your clients. This means that if you pay your employee $15/hour and you charge $40/hour to do those tedious jobs, you make a $30 profit each hour this employee works; now you can spend your time doing the more significant accounting tasks. And if you use a son or daughter to do this work, part of their salary is tax-deductible! check http://RosesBookkeepingWestPalmBeachFL.com
5. Better manage client information
Whether it’s your filing system or the electronic method you use, you may want to find something that helps you better manage client information. Can you easily run reports that give you a birds-eye view of your clients’ information? Do you have a quick method of accessing client information from multiple views? You may consider purchasing one that could help you. For keeping your financials, because 80% of small businesses use Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro, that’s the software package we suggest.
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