| In the last article we looked at some tips for fathers in | | | | effect you are adding three 'departments' onto your |
| business. | | | | business. |
| One of the tips was about systemizing your business | | | | 1. Your marketing department - Making sure that every |
| so that you as a business owner can get away and | | | | obstacle that stands in the way of getting your |
| spend more time with your family without the business | | | | services / products sold are overcome |
| relying on you at all times. As a Father this is a natural | | | | 2. Your operations department - The sole purpose of |
| desire. Systemizing your business is often seen as a | | | | this department is to investigate and implement ways |
| panacea and easy fix. Then reality is though that there | | | | of doing your work quicker, cheaper and better. |
| are a series of stages that a small business goes | | | | 3. Keeping score department - What you cant |
| through to actually reach this level. | | | | measure you cant manage - keeping track of |
| This includes fixing and working on various parts of | | | | everything from finances, compliances, strategic |
| your business before investing in creating business | | | | planning implementation, systems implementation, staff |
| systems | | | | etc etc. |
| The problem with most small businesses is that they | | | | On top of this you have someone holding you to |
| cannot afford to hire salaried business development | | | | account for accomplishing milestones moving your |
| experts. | | | | business towards one that is more profitable and less |
| Small businesses realize that to get some expertise on | | | | hands on for you the business owner. |
| board means that they could then grow their | | | | Fathers, we owe it to our families and children to |
| businesses effectively which means that they could | | | | spend as much quality time as possible. If you are not |
| then afford the expertise to grow their businesses... | | | | in the luxurious position of working from 9 to 5 and |
| yes it's a classic catch 22 situation. | | | | then being able to walk away from work every day |
| The secret is to outsource this type of work to people | | | | then you owe it to yourself and family to put in small |
| who can show you the templates and then coach you | | | | business systems and processes so you can start |
| through the process. Outsourcing someone to assist | | | | doing this. |
| you implement processes and systems means that in | | | | |