How to make 2009 your best year in business ever

Here are my top tips to help small businesses owners make 2009 their best year ever:

1. Write down the goals you want to accomplish. The number one way to make your business grow and thrive is to write down measurable goals (i.e., I WILL generate $7.5 million in sales by December 31, 2010). Don't keep your goals in your head. Write your goals down in a place where you will see them every day such as your office white board. You want your goals to eat at you like a scratch you want to itch. Achieving your goals should be your company's primary focus.

2. Create better marketing materials. Understand that marketing is a war of words, and the company with the best words wins. If you are not working with a professional marketing copywriter to create all of your marketing and advertising materials, you are most likely losing the marketing battle with your competitors. Rarely does the best product win in business. It is almost always the product with the best marketing that wins. Therefore, for you to win in business, your focus must always be on having more powerful marketing words than your competition. Win the marketing game and success is yours.

3. Do not give up and lose hope! You are going to have ups and downs and you need to weather the storm. A big part of business success comes from how well you handle the bad days. Keep focused and stay positive that you WILL achieve your businesses goals no matter what.

4. Educate yourself. One of the keys to success in business and in life is reading “how to” books on business. Talk to any millionaire business person and you will find that he or she owns dozens if not hundreds of business books.

I owe all of my success in life to reading business books. Anybody who knows me knows that I am constantly reading business books on topics such as management, sales, and marketing.

If you want to greatly improve the success of your business and your life, it is as easy as reading 10 pages a day, every day. If you commit yourself to reading 10 pages a day from business books, in a year you will have read 3,650 pages! As an average business book is about 300 pages long, if you read 10 pages a day in 1-year you will have read 12+ complete business books. Think of the amazing business education you will give yourself by forcing yourself to read 10 pages a day.

Another very important thing to consider is that if you commit yourself to reading 10 pages a day, in 2-years you will have given yourself the equivalent to a Master’s degree in business.

Here's to a great 2009!

Peter Geisheker, CEO
The Geisheker Group Marketing Company
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