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Do You Have A Business or a Job?

by Pam Hamilton

Goals are considered one of the decisive factors which can take you and your business to the top of the success. Every successful industrialist must know this fact. If you have started your business and you don’t have a certain goals, then you may go in the wrong way where you may not get the success you deserved.

Think that you are the owner of small business. Then what will be your goal? Of course it will be to make an adequate amount of money each month, to wrap the payroll and may be to take your family on a vacation.

Every small business owner should have the same goal - sooner or later, to become independent of the business. Small businesses turn into big businesses only when they are able to operate smoothly without the owner being present. When you can stay away for a week, or a month, or a year, and return to find the business running better than before you left, you have the opportunity to do whatever you like - sell the business and start a new one, retire, buy a yacht and sail around the world.

True financial independence is the ability to live your life doing what YOU want to do. Do you really want to show up for work an hour early every day, leave late at night and never take a vacation, for the rest of your life? I don’t think so.

That is the description of a job … and a really lousy one at that. Unfortunately, it’s also exactly, what most small business owners, especially franchisees and mom & pop shops have. In fact, it’s so common place that it is often referred to as “buying a job.”

If you want to walk away from the above problems than there is a simple way. That is by placing a system in a workplace, through which every employee will come to know exactly what is expected from them. Along with the time you spent on you business, you should ensure that those systems get built in a mean time.

When you take on a new employee, how do they learn what they’re expected to do? Does an existing employee take them in charge, explaining how things work? How can you be sure that the new employee is learning what you want them to know?

As the owner of the business, it’s your job to ensure that systems are put in place as the business grows. The systems will ensure that everyone knows what they need to know to do their job effectively.

Employee training, development and testing of the product, accounting procedures, inventory, customer service, marketing, promotion and hiring, facility management and so on are some of the important features which the successful system should include.

A great book to help you in creating these systems is called the E-Myth by Michael Gerber. It’s a really good read and enormously helpful in building your understanding in how systems help grow your business.

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