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6 Tips for Business Owners

If you’re a proud business owner ShiftPixy has a few tips for innovative ways to ensure your  business’ long-term success, simply continue reading to discover a wide variety of valuable tips aimed at business owners.

Valuable Tips for Business Owners:

1. Avoid hiring friends or family members to work for your business

While you may be tempted to hire your friends or family members as employees, make sure to think twice before doing so as you may find it hard to treat your loved ones as employees and it’s highly likely that they won’t appreciate being told what to do. Hiring individuals who you know personally is also a risky move as you may continue to hire an underperforming friend, simply because you feel uncomfortable firing a friend.

2. Evaluate your business’ success on a regular basis

Some business owners make the mistake of evaluating their business on a quarterly basis. However, it’s well worth evaluating your business data on a bi-monthly basis as ideally, you should pick up on any changes to your business’ figures as soon as possible.

As you may find that one of your new products is earning your business a huge profit and needs to be reordered or that your latest marketing campaign is proving ineffective.

3. Make sure to treat your employees well

If you treat your employees well and offer incentives for your top performing employees as well as frequent training opportunities and opportunities for upward mobility, they’ll be far more likely to work hard for your business.

Whereas if you fail to see your employees as valuable assets, your employees will be more likely to seek other opportunities at rival businesses or to do the bare minimum to retain their jobs. Remember, that if you treat your employees well, that they will turn out to be your business’ greatest asset.

4. Look for innovative ways for your business to stand out from your competition

Even if your business is doing relatively well, you shouldn’t rest on your laurels. Instead constantly look for new opportunities to take your business to the next level. As a business owner, you can either choose to focus on innovation, research, and development or risk being left behind your competition.

5. Invest in high-quality market research

One way that you can learn what your customers really want is to conduct regular market research, which will allow you to tailor your business’ products, services and marketing campaigns to your target market’s preferences. Market research is not an area, which business owners should forgo budgeting for.

6. Consider talking to a business mentor on a regular basis

If you want to avoid making unnecessary mistakes, which could cost your business hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s well worth talking to an experienced business mentor on a regular basis. If you’re keen you may want to organize to meet your business mentor for coffee once a month!

So if you’re a business owner who is serious about expanding your business, it’s well worth following the six valuable tips listed above!


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