Must-reads for your business: September 2020

September marks the end of the summer break and the start of ‘business season’. It’s a great time to review the business goals you’ve set for the year to see if you’re on course to achieve them.

Here are some great must-read articles to help you on your way. It’s not too late to finish 2020 with a bang.

1. You can’t manage what you can’t measure

Brett Davidson

When you start to look at everything you might track, there’s a ton of stuff to go after. The key is identifying where it occurs in the sales funnel, and how useful it is for predicting results further down the line.

What lead metrics are you going to track going forward?

2. The third leg of the stool

Brett Davidson

It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to create a small, beautifully-formed lifestyle business or a larger enterprise – the issues are the same. In fact, lifestyle businesses need to be more organised, or there’s no lifestyle to be had!

Owners need to address six key issues to create a business that works and to lay the foundations for future growth. Read on to find out more.

3. Things getting tough? You’ve only got two options

Brett Davidson

When you understand the concept of the Dip, it allows you to focus on the inputs that are necessary to achieve the level of success that matters to you. By focusing on the inputs, and doing so with love and passion and excellence, you produce better quality work and, as a result, your work becomes even more rewarding and you get the outcomes you wanted all along.

So what does “the best in the world” mean for you and your business?

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You can’t manage what you can’t measure and two more must-reads for your business

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