Happy Makar Sankranti !
It is January and New Year has just been welcomed. It isn't too late to join in to the resolution queue and sankranti is the best time to start something new. You might have taken up New Year resolution for yourself and probably be all determined to fulfill it. But has your business taken up New Year Resolutions? What your business should do this year to make its lifespan more worthwhile, healthy and wealthy...
Here are some New Year Resolutions for your business that will boost not only your life style but also will grow and nurture your business too.
1. Early to bed and Early to rise :
This will make your business healthy wealthy and wise. You have heard this on and on for a very long time. It is true for a person but also for a business. Make your business rise up early and pack up early in the evening. Try starting out your business from the morning hours. Complete pending works, minuscule tasks like bill payment, tearing up useless papers and cleaning up your desk, listening to your staff's problems and complaints. An hour or two in the morning and you will be free to do other more important stuffs in the whole day.
Suppose you usually start your office work at 10. Try starting it from 9 am. The additional one hour with morning freshness will warm you up and will help you go with the flow.
Also pack up early in the evening. Keep late night work only for urgent works or emergencies. Logging off early will help you organise and plan your next day efficiently. Ever been in a situation when it's 10 in the night and you are in haste to go back home and things get quite tensed, hurried and Hodge-podge? Remember haste is waste. Try to wrap up your work on a definite time and arrange other tasks accordingly for the next morning. This will save your time and your energy.
2. Exercise :
Like you, your business too needs some stretching. It also needs to shed out some useless fat and needs to sweat it out.
Like a you, your business needs to get new ideas and explore new areas. Something new rejuvenates the employees as well. Do something different. Assign new challenges to staff's which they have never done before and encourage them.
Unwanted fat is dangerous for the body. It is the same for your business. Chalk out a list of frivolous expenses and lazy task force. Cut down on expenses that are not important. Warn the employees who act lazy or are not productive enough. If warning is not enough... Cut the chord.
Sweating is useful for the body. The harder you workout, the more you sweat. Your business needs that "sweat out' too. Work harder this year. Sweating your business will be healthy for you and your business.
3. Networking :
As you love to contact and make new friends so does your business. Adopt a good networking plan for your business this year. Make friends with new enterprises which will help your business too. Invest in marketing strategies that makes fans not clients. Publicise your business. Advertise in social media. Connect to new people make them your fans and convert them into clients. Do not hesitate to put your business out in the market. As the Hindi adage goes "Jo dikhta hai wahi bikta hai".
If you want to outsource people for marketing do so and see the difference. You can also contact BuzzKonnect (that's us ;)) for Digital Marketing and other online promotional activities.
4. Stagnation is death:
Do not let your business sit idle. Organise your schedule so that time isn't wasted. Time is money. Do not indulge is useless gossips or stick to social media or other activities that don't benefit your business. Make your business flow. If it is stuck in a place, it's red alert.
5. Vacations:
Take a break. Let your business have a nap time. Let the employees have vacation atleast twice a year. This will freshen them up and this in turn will freshen up and energise your business.
However make sure your work isn't all stopped at once. Organise the vacations such that the important chores of your business isn't affected. So have fun and let your business have fun. For some business holidays ideas our next buzzpost will give you ideas on places to get some fresh energy.
So make your business healthy wealthy and wise with these new year resolutions and stay connected with us.
