How To Achieve Balance In Your Business
Is your business in balance? Or are you working on 25 projects and 15 marketing initiatives at once, all while thinking: “I should really be using this brand new social networking site that I just heard about!” ?
If that sounds like you, it is time to re-think how you do business and see if you can prioritize your actions, while still accomplishing everything.
Here are some of the things I do in order to achieve more balance in my business:
- Automate everything that I can. Lots of things can be automated online - scheduling of blog posts, automatic product fulfillment, ezine software, etc.
Take action: Take advantage of technology to automatically get people subscribing to your list, downloading your products, registering for your classes, etc.
- Outsource tasks that I don’t enjoy doing and can’t automate.
Take action: Take a look at everything you are doing and see which ones can be outsourced.
- Long term scheduling. I always know what’s coming up for my business for the next 6+ months. That way I can plan the tasks I need to do, marketing I need to do, etc.
When you know what’s coming up long term, you can schedule backwards. For example, if one of your goals is to have an ebook written by the end of October, 2008, you know that there are tasks that need to get done every month/week/day in order for this to happen.
Take action: Create your marketing plan!
- Multiple streams of income. Creating products, such as seminars, ebooks and my mentoring program has really improved my work/life balance.
I can have as many or as few one-on-one clients as I want. (I usually have 3-7 clients at any given time), and I don’t put my marketing efforts into getting one-on-one clients.
Instead, my marketing is concentrated on getting leads for my business.
Take action: Create multiple streams of income for your business!
Biana Babinsky
About Biana Babinsky: Biana teaches coaches, consultants, virtual assistants and other business owners how to get more clients, create multiple streams of income and run a successful online business. Join her mentoring program at http://www.MarketingSalad.com to discover how to create a successful online business.
