11 Ways to Improve Your Business

We’ve talked about many ways to get your business in shape. Here are ten of the most important and immediately effective ones:

Ask Customers for Testimonials—Testimonials are critical in building credibility for your business.

Perform a Breakeven Analysis—Unless you do it, you won’t know if you’re really making money.

Get Help When You Need It—You can’t do it all. And hiring other professionals to help you will free you up to do the things you love.

Perform a SWOT Analysis Now—The best way to figure out just where you need to improve or hire somebody.

Create Effective Project Proposals—Create a template that you can use for every bid. Just fill in the blanks.

Build the Project Statement of Work—Create a template that you can use to lay out your projects for your clients and yourself.

Put Business Systems in Place—Every function in business can be simplified with a system, whether it’s getting customers, pitching customers, doing the work, billing, customer service, or follow-up marketing.

Match Your Image to Your Market—Using the wrong image for your market can be deadly. Like playing elevator music for your market of punk rock aficianados.

Check Out the Best Online Invoicing Applications—These applications will simplify and speed up how you bill and get your money.

5 Selling Truths You Must Learn—Embrace these truths and you’ll improve your new business effectiveness.

Free Business Tools You Need—These free tools will help you get a handle on your business finances.