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		<title>What is Your Mission?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mission statement for small businesses is important part on the road to entrepreneurial success. However, there are many problems that many entrepreneurs don&#8217;t see. It seems so simple, but small businesses are so much dependent on that sentence. I do not believe that there is a company that has no mission. At least most [...]]]></description>
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<p>The mission statement for small businesses is important part on the road to <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2736/10-rules-of-success-for-entrepreneurs/">entrepreneurial success</a>. However, there are many problems that many entrepreneurs don&#8217;t see.</p>
<p>It seems so simple, but <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/tag/business/">small businesses</a> are so much dependent on that sentence.</p>
<p>I do not believe that there is a company that has no mission. At least most of them have a special web page on their website that stated that sentence.</p>
<p>It is not the problem that we have a mission statement on the web site. The problem is more substantial and based on the following truths:</p>
<ul>
<li>Many mission statements don&#8217;t reflect the reality of the business and</li>
<li>Importance of the mission statement is underestimated from entrepreneurs.</li>
</ul>
<p>So, why we need such a statement.<br />
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The business mission should define what the business wants to make at least for four categories:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/380/10-steps-to-better-understand-customers-needs/">Customers</a>,</li>
<li>Employees,</li>
<li>Owners and</li>
<li>Society.</li>
</ul>
<p>In simpler words, the mission is the reason for the existence of your business.</p>
<p>And now we can see many mission statements as the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our mission is to provide the best quality, cutting-edge products and services from our industry for our customers.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a short version. It can have several sentences, but most are blah, blah, blah&#8230;</p>
<p>Often when I ask entrepreneurs for whom they will provide their products and services? They say for our customers. I continue with the question: Who are they? Again, the answer is our customers. Tell me something more specific about them? And then there is the biggest problem when they say: anyone, what&#8217;s a matter?</p>
<p>The thinking behind this answer is that everyone who can become a customer is welcomed. However, this thinking is so wrong and can be really terrific for an small-business owner.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t satisfy everyone! You need to know exactly who you want to satisfy.</p>
<p>Who are your customers?</p>
<p>Do you know them well enough?</p>
<p>It seems that key questions to don&#8217;t have an appropriate answer.</p>
<p>Want to meet their needs? You have to know much more things about them. When you know them better, you need to specify your mission statement when it comes to your customers. It is not only for you. It is for everyone else in your business, and also for your external environment.</p>
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		<title>Your Business Need to Make Something! 11 Warning Signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizational Changes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As entrepreneurs we always want a red light as a sign that exists in the manufacturing plants and will tell us when something can be wrong to stop the process, eliminate errors or problems and activate again the process without errors. Do you want to know when something as a sign from your internal and [...]]]></description>
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<p>As <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneurs</a> we always want a red light as a sign that exists in the manufacturing plants and will tell us when something can be wrong to stop the process, eliminate errors or problems and activate again the process without errors.</p>
<p>Do you want to know when something as a sign from your internal and external environment means that you need to make something for your business?</p>
<p>Probably yes, you want to know. Because of that you want to look at reports, you want to talk with customers. You want ideas from employees&#8230;</p>
<p>In this post, I would like to separate the eleven most important signs that will mean you must immediately to make something.</p>
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<h2>#1 Your Customer&#8217;s Behavior Isn&#8217;t Same</h2>
<p>You, and your employees know the <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1077/50-recommendations-longterm-customer-relationships/">customer&#8217;s</a> behavior from the last several purchases. If you find something wrong with their behaviors, it is an enough strong sign that you need to make something.</p>
<p>Talk with them about the problems. Ask them how you can help them. Help them if you can, or improve your business if there are some reasons for their dissatisfaction.</p>
<h2>#2 Increased Number in Complaints by Customers</h2>
<p>You know that you can&#8217;t satisfy everybody, but as an entrepreneur you don&#8217;t want to satisfy everybody. If you start to receive complaints by customers, that&#8217;s a sign that you need to make something.</p>
<p>Find why they complain and immediately remove the reasons. It is a good strategy to call them back and thanks them because they help you to improve your own business. In such a way, you simply tell them that you listen to them, which will build better trust in you and your company.</p>
<h2>#3 Your Competition Start With Changes</h2>
<p>Sometimes changes that take your competitors can be a strong signal that you need to make something also in your company. Probably, they want to make something that will impact on market share of your company.</p>
<p>If they make changes, ask yourself following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why they are making such a <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/3352/dont-do-these-6-things-when-you-plan-changes-in-your-business/">change</a>?</li>
<li>What they want to achieve?</li>
<li>Do you need to make something?</li>
<li>What you need to make?</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to be always <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/948/step-competition/">one step ahead your competitors</a>, you must follow what they make.</p>
<h2>#4 Declining Productivity of Your Employees</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1070/50-business-productivity-rules/">Productivity</a> is an important part in your business success. If your employees are productive, the overall business efficiency will be OK.</p>
<p>If you find that the productivity is at the declining level you need to make something if you want to escape from disaster.</p>
<h2>#5 You and Your Business Continues to Deal With the Same Mistakes</h2>
<p>Do you find yourself solving the same problems repeatedly. You and your employees are frustrated repeating the same tasks repeatedly. That&#8217;s not a productive work.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s a case in your company, you need to make something. You must <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2282/small-business-advice-permanently-eliminate-problem-causes/">remove all causes of your business problems</a> in the same time while you solve the problem. In such a way, you don&#8217;t need to solve the same problem in the future.</p>
<h2>#6 Your Marketing Efforts Didn&#8217;t Give the Results</h2>
<p>Every small-business owner use marketing to send a message for their company. However, the problem is that sometimes some of the marketing efforts didn&#8217;t give you the results that you want, or expect.</p>
<p>There is not worse than investing your time and money in something that will not return the investment, or simply don&#8217;t give the results that you want.</p>
<p>If you find that some of your marketing efforts are not worth doing anymore, stop doing them, try something new, something that maybe will give you better results.</p>
<h2>#7 Your Sales Numbers Decline</h2>
<p>Do we need to comment this sign? I think that this is so obvious.</p>
<h2>#8 New Technology Makes a Pressure on Your Business</h2>
<p>You as an entrepreneur can&#8217;t stop the appearance of new technology. Every day, every minute or probably every second there is something new. Do you find yourself to buy some very cool gadget, but after several months to see that there is a new, better model of it?</p>
<p>The new <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/category/technology/">technology</a> will make a pressure on your company. If you don&#8217;t feel the pressure yet, you will feel it quickly. But, more important for you, is that you must know that technology will influence on your everyday business operation. You need to follow what&#8217;s happening outside your company, and make appropriate adjustments in your company.</p>
<h2>#9 Your Costs Increase With Large Jumps</h2>
<p>Again. I think that this sign doesn&#8217;t need comments. If your costs increase with really, really large jumps, you need to make something.</p>
<h2>#10 You Spend More and More Time in Your Business</h2>
<p>Do you spend too much time in your company?</p>
<p>Do you find yourself each day going home really late at night?</p>
<p>Do you find yourself as a person that has only 24 hours daily, but need 30 or 50 hours to work in the business?</p>
<p>If you find yourself in the answers on the above questions than you really must change something in your own behavior, but also in your business.</p>
<h2>#11 Your Business Can&#8217;t Operate Without You</h2>
<p>Do you feel as a person without whom the business can&#8217;t survive?</p>
<p>Do you want to be everywhere to check and fixing things even you have employees for such a thing?</p>
<p>If you think that it is normal for small business that can&#8217;t operate without the owner, you are wrong. You are the person who has built the business, and you have built your business in such a way that it can&#8217;t operate without you.</p>
<p>You need to change something, but from the very own basis of your business.</p>
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		<title>The Value of Failure [Quote]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want success, you need to make your business to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today. If you don&#8217;t try you will not know! If you try you can fail. However, you need to know that improvement is a consequence of failure. If you don&#8217;t fail, you can&#8217;t improve yourself [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you want success, you need to make your business to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t try you will not know!</p>
<p>If you try you can fail.</p>
<p>However, you need to know that <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1583/improvement-consequence-failure/">improvement is a consequence of failure</a>.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t fail, you can&#8217;t improve yourself and your business.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/3186/failure-in-business/">Failing</a> means learning, it will show you more possibilities that you can&#8217;t see, and it can make you to become more productive.</p>
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<blockquote><p>No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. ~ Mark Cuban</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Do These 6 Things When You Plan Changes in Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizational Changes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important and never-ending processes in each organizational system like a business is the organizational change process. As an entrepreneur your job is to solve problems, both internal and external. Internal problems closely related to your business, and everything inside the company, and external problems related to your target market, customers and [...]]]></description>
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<p>One of the most important and never-ending processes in each organizational system like a business is the <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2926/organizational-change-process-why-you-need-it/">organizational change process</a>.</p>
<p>As an <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneur</a> your job is to solve problems, both internal and external. Internal problems closely related to your business, and everything inside the company, and external problems related to your target market, customers and everything outside your company. Yes, you are problem solver. Each problem needs solution. On the other hand, the implementation of solution is the change process that will <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2622/improve-your-business-in-77-days-challenge/">improve your business</a>.</p>
<p>But, statistically many change processes fail because of different reasons. Here, I want to propose six things that you need to escape if you want to increase the probability of success of your change processes.</p>
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<h2>#1 Don&#8217;t Start Without a Clear Vision of the Future</h2>
<p>The change process start with the plan. When you&#8217;re planning your next change process, you need to look into the future. If you don&#8217;t know the future, you can&#8217;t appropriately plan your change process.</p>
<p>Without the clear vision of the future, you will don&#8217;t know the path of your change process.</p>
<p>You need to answer the following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>What will be in the future?</li>
<li>How the future will look and what&#8217;s the impact of that future on my company?</li>
<li>Can we create, improve, accept or ignore the future? What that will mean for my business?</li>
<li>What will be the rule of my business in the future?</li>
</ul>
<p>When you answer on these questions, then you can continue with your planning process.</p>
<h2>#2 Don&#8217;t Start Without Clear Formulation of the Problem or Real Sources of Change</h2>
<p>Each change is a consequence of some reason called as change sources or change forces. If you want to succeed with a change process, you need to have clear formulation of the real problem or real change sources.</p>
<p>If you know the change sources, you will know what you need to do.</p>
<p>For example, if the change source is the competition and their new product, you will know that your change process needs to start with a new product line development process.</p>
<h2>#3 Don&#8217;t Underestimate the Power of Resistance to Change</h2>
<p>Each change process will be faced with <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/223/factors-that-causes-resistance-to-organizational-change/">resistance to change</a>. You need to know that and prepare to work on overcoming resistance before you start with the implementation. Some of the organizational members will accept the change. Some of them can initiate them, but some of them will ignore the change or simply will show that they resist the proposed changes.</p>
<p>The change process can be found under the threat of the persons that will ignore or resist the proposed changes. You need to know that persons. Some of the reasons of resistance can be the first improvement of the process that needs to be implemented, but some of them need to be overcome if you want to succeed.</p>
<h2>#4 Don&#8217;t Avoid Sources of Organizational Changes From Everywhere</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/9/organizational-change-source/">organizational change&#8217;s sources</a> can be everywhere inside or outside of your business. You need to open your eye, to improve your listening, and to follow everything around you. Everything can be transformed into useful signals that will tell you what you need to change in your business if you want to stay on the right path.</p>
<p>Everything can be important, or will contribute in compiling the puzzle for your business future.</p>
<h2>#5 Don&#8217;t Forget That Your Business Have Powerful External Environment</h2>
<p>One of the foundational basis of each business is that it operates and lives in highly powerful external environment. That environment can impact on each of your business aspects. That environment, don&#8217;t give you the possibilities to stay quiet, but it always pressures you to change something in your company if you want to keep the dynamically equilibrium with your environment.</p>
<p>You need to follow the changes in your environment, and immediately to adjust your company according to that changes. That changes will become reality, whether you want it or not.</p>
<h2>#6 Don&#8217;t Escape to Celebrate the Success With Your Team</h2>
<p>The success of each change process is not dependent only on you as an entrepreneur or manager. But, the whole team that works for you is responsible for the success. Sometimes the change process is very painful for your team. They are probably more times found themselves in a position to decide whether to continue or to quite. But, if the process is successful, it means that everybody gives their maximum for that.</p>
<p>On the other hand, you know that finish of one change process didn&#8217;t mean finish of changes at all. There are other changes processes that will need to be implemented. If you want to continue with success based on highly supportive employees you need to celebrate with them each <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2941/what-is-the-success-for-you/">success</a> that you accomplish together.</p>
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		<title>How to Reduce Your Non Value Adding Time in 5 Minutes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time you spend daily on your value adding activities in your business? On the other hand, maybe it is better to ask how much time you spend on your non-value adding tasks? As entrepreneurs, we need to be more productive. We need to improve our businesses in every possible aspect that can give us the best results, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How much time you spend daily on your value adding activities in your business?</p>
<p>On the other hand, maybe it is better to ask how much time you spend on your non-value adding tasks?</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneurs</a>, we need to be more productive. We need to improve our businesses in every possible aspect that can give us the best results, or the best return of our investments that can be in the form of money, energy or time spending.</p>
<p>If we focus ourselves in creating more worth for our business, we will be <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/3033/10-steps-to-become-better-entrepreneur/">better entrepreneurs</a>.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look in the process that can enable you to reduce your non-value adding time spending in five minutes.</p>
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<h2>Minute #1: Make a List of All of Your Activities in an Average Business Day</h2>
<p>Sit down and spend the first minute in making a list that will obtain all of your tasks in an average business day that you need, or you actually accomplish.</p>
<p>Here, you can put your meetings with the employees, or checking email, answering emails, phone calls, making agreements&#8230;</p>
<p>Put as much as possible tasks on the list, don&#8217;t think about anything, only write them.</p>
<h2><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Non-Value-Adding.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3338" title="Non-Value-Adding" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Non-Value-Adding.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="555" /></a>Minute #2: On Each Activity add a Sign That Means Add Value or Don&#8217;t Add Value</h2>
<p>Now, when you have your list, and you already know about how you are spending your working hours you can simply pass again all the tasks in the second minute and mark them as a value added or non-value added activities.</p>
<h2>Minute #3: Look at All Non-Value Adding Activities and Delete All of Them That You Think is Not Need</h2>
<p>In the third minute, you need to look and quickly analyze all of your tasks that didn&#8217;t add value to your business. You can always find activities that are not important, or simply they are not needed for the existence of your business.</p>
<p>If they are having no significance for your business, you can simply delete them from the list.</p>
<h2>Minute #4: Look at All Remained Activities That Don&#8217;t Add Value, But You Think Must Be Accomplished and Delegate Them</h2>
<p>Now, your list is contained with important value adding activities and activities with not so much importance in adding value but need to be accomplished for the normal operations of the business.</p>
<p>Simply, your fourth minute will be to get away all of the remaining non value adding tasks from the list and <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2054/delegate-to-increase-productivity/">delegate</a> them to one or more of your team members. You are entrepreneur, and your job is to focus on tasks that will add value to your own business.</p>
<h2>Minute #5: Again Check What&#8217;s Remaining, and Make Your Final List of Activities</h2>
<p>Your list now contains only value adding activities. Even so, you will not lose anything if you spend the last, fifth minute to check again your list. Maybe you will find that something was forgotten or omitted and need to be added to the list.You can find that some of the value-added activities are not so important and can be delegated to one of your team members.</p>
<p>The purpose in the last minute is to once again finally clean your list, because if it is too long, it will not guarantee your <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2941/what-is-the-success-for-you/">success</a> because you can&#8217;t accomplish everything.</p>
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		<title>About Doing Something Worth Doing [Quote]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As human beings we are afraid of something new, unexpected, or unknown until today. Can we allow us as entrepreneurs to stop doing something new, unexpected or unknown because that&#8217;s making us afraid? This is unacceptable, especially for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are persons that create something from nothing. They create something unexpected on the market. They create new needs, new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As human beings we are afraid of something new, unexpected, or unknown until today.</p>
<p>Can we allow us as <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneurs</a> to stop doing something new, unexpected or unknown because that&#8217;s making us afraid?</p>
<p>This is unacceptable, especially for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are persons that create something from nothing. They create something unexpected on the market. They create new needs, new knowledge, the new way of thinking and looking into the world where we live. They find something unknown and make it known for many people on the planet.</p>
<p>I know that the status quo is something safe and secure. But, you are or want to be an entrepreneur. You can&#8217;t be satisfied with the status quo situation. That&#8217;s not a part of an entrepreneurial life. Think about it, and if you think that you want safe and secure, then probably entrepreneurship is not for you. Try something else.</p>
<p><span id="more-3324"></span>If you don&#8217;t do something now, and take your destiny in your own hands in the future you will be disappointed because you didn&#8217;t make to change something in your own environment.</p>
<p>Changes will come with you, or without you. You can initiate changes and become the leader, or you can follow and be a part of the change process. But, you can&#8217;t allow yourself to <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/223/factors-that-causes-resistance-to-organizational-change/">resist</a> or ignore them because they will not ask you for your approval, they simply become your reality.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t allow you as an entrepreneur to become a silent observer of what is happening around you. Be the creator of the future, be the part of that future. You can change the world. We can change the world.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Guide to Set Up Your Business Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an entrepreneur you have a clear vision about what you want to achieve on a business level. You probably have goals because you know what you want to achieve. But, the problem is not in the setting up business goals. It&#8217;s more on the process to set up achievable and highly committed goals. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneur</a> you have a clear vision about what you want to achieve on a business level. You probably have <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/3268/your-business-goals-for-2012/">goals</a> because you know what you want to achieve.</p>
<p>But, the problem is not in the setting up business goals. It&#8217;s more on the process to set up achievable and highly committed goals.</p>
<p>This post will be as a guide which will lead you through the process to set up your <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/3088/day-13-business-goals-improve-your-business-in-77-days/">business goals</a> that will be achieved at the end of the period.</p>
<p><span id="more-3306"></span>The simplest way to set up goals for your business is to start with the answer on the <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2372/set-up-your-business-goals-answering-these-questions/">questions</a> where you want your business to be after some period of time and define the roadmap how to bring it there. There are many directions that will help you to bring your business in the desired future position, but you need the right directions that will help you to be there with the optimal efforts and the quickest possible time.</p>
<h2>#1 Start With Your Business Needs</h2>
<p><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Finish-Everything-On-To-Do-List.jpg"><img class="alignright  wp-image-1760" title="Finish-Everything-On-To-Do-List" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Finish-Everything-On-To-Do-List.jpg" alt="Finish Everything On To-Do List" width="227" height="282" /></a>First things as a first. You need a clear vision where you want your business to be in the future. If you didn&#8217;t know that you can&#8217;t start with setting up the goals for your business.</p>
<p>What are you needed? What your business needs to achieve in the future? What do you want?</p>
<p>As you can see in this level of setting up your business goals, you will use words as a need, want and wish.</p>
<p>For example, the sentence can be:</p>
<ul>
<li>I need to make $200.000,00 in profit.</li>
<li>I want to make $200.000,00 profit.</li>
<li>I wish to make $200.000,00 profit.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your need, your want or your wish will create a clear vision where you want to be in the future.</p>
<h2>#2 Translate Needs into Actionable Elements</h2>
<p>If you look at the statements from the previous step you can conclude that they are not actionable, they are only wishes or your dreams. Your goals need to be actionable as more as possible.</p>
<p>The needs, wants or wishes can be useful, but they are not obligatory for you as an entrepreneur to achieve them. But, if you use statements as a I will make $200.000,00 profit, then you will be much more pushed to work to achieve such a goal.</p>
<h2>#3 Make a List as Small as You Can</h2>
<p>You can have a large list of your dreams translated into actionable items. But, you don&#8217;t have a potential to achieve all of them in the same period of time. You need to decide what will be most priority items from your list.</p>
<p>Choose between 5 to 10 items as a good basis for your business goals.</p>
<h2>#4 Make Your List SMART</h2>
<p>Your goals need to be SMART goals.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Specific</strong>. Your goals need to be specific as much as possible. Ask yourself are your goals specific? For example, you need a specific goal as I will make $200.000 profit instead of an unspecific goals I will make a profit.</li>
<li><strong>Measurable</strong>. Your goals need to be measurable which will enable you to measure the progress through them.</li>
<li><strong>Achievable</strong>. Your goals need to be something really <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1301/business-goals-achievable-high-unachievable/">achievable</a>. For example, can you achieve the $200.000,00 profit? If you can&#8217;t, or it is not real to be achievable, it is better to change your goals.</li>
<li><strong>Realistic</strong>. Are they realistic? You want to achieve the goal to make $200.000,00 profit, but do you and your business are prepared for such a goal? Do you have enough market to achieve such a goal?</li>
<li><strong>Time Limited</strong>. Are they time-limited? If you don&#8217;t make your goals time limited than you simply don&#8217;t have the goals at all. Something without limit of when must be achieved can&#8217;t be a goal. For example, your goal will be something like this: I will make $200.000,00 profit in the next twelve months.</li>
</ul>
<h2>#5 Do Not Forget about Emotional Connections</h2>
<p>One of the biggest problem with the goals even they are SMART goals is lack of the emotional connection between you and your goals. You can have the best goals, and they can be SMART goals, but they are for the future. You set them today and will use them tomorrow. But, tomorrow can bring other possibilities or other different activities that will push you back from your initial goals.</p>
<p>After you make your goals until to this step you need to add a because after them. For example, I will make $200.000,00 profit because&#8230; Answer this questions to brainstorm possible ends of your goal sentences:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why you would achieve this goal?</li>
<li>What you will get?</li>
<li>What your <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1077/50-recommendations-longterm-customer-relationships/">customers</a> will get from achieving this goal?</li>
</ul>
<h2>#6 Write Your Goals</h2>
<p>Now as you have your goals defined you need to make them visible, you need to seat and write them down on the paper. The purpose of writing your goals on the paper is to increase your own <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1183/5-tips-commitment-business-goals/">commitment</a> to the achievement of your just defined goals.</p>
<h2>#7 Publicly Show Your Goals List</h2>
<p>You need to communicate publicly your just defined goals if you want to increase commitment and accountability for you as an entrepreneur. You are in charge for the achievement of the goals.</p>
<p>Talk about them with your employees, customers and business partner. When you say something about your goals with important persons for your business you will be more committed to them.</p>
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		<title>Want More Customers? 6 Things Your Customer Wants to Hear From You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What customers want to hear from entrepreneurs to make more sales for their businesses? Do you as an entrepreneur want more sales? Who didn&#8217;t want more sales? More sales mean more income, and more profitability for your business. You have something to say, and you&#8217;re using it to attract customers to your company. But, is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1077/50-recommendations-longterm-customer-relationships/">customers</a> want to hear from entrepreneurs to make more sales for their businesses?</p>
<p>Do you as an <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneur</a> want more sales? Who didn&#8217;t want more sales? More sales mean more income, and more profitability for your business.</p>
<p>You have something to say, and you&#8217;re using it to attract customers to your company. But, is it the same that they want to hear from you? When you talk to them, do you help them? Are they satisfied with the whole relationships with you and your company?</p>
<p><span id="more-3299"></span>If you want <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1565/attract-more-buyers/">more buyers</a>, not any type of customers, but satisfied customers, you need to realign your saying with what they want to hear. This is not only talking about something what they want to hear, but also doing what you talk and deliver on your talking promises.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s try to brainstorm some ideas what your buyers want to hear from you. After you read these statements you need to check them with your company and make them real before you start to talk about them.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Killing-Business.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2261" title="Killing Business" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Killing-Business.jpg" alt="Killing Business" width="380" height="448" /></a>Customers want to hear about solutions for their problems not features of your products and services</strong>. Although your products and services have features that can solve customer&#8217;s problems, your buyers don&#8217;t want to think and translate the features into possible solutions about their problems. Sometimes you have only several seconds to explain your offer. Why you want to tell him heavy understandable features when you can to help him for better understanding what you offer?</li>
<li><strong>Customers want to hear about their needs and the ways how they can satisfy them</strong>. Each of your customer has their own need that differentiate from some other customer need. They want to hear from you how they can satisfy their personalized <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/364/understanding-customer-needs-will-increase-business-potential-energy/">needs</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Customers want to hear about help that you, and your business can give them</strong>. How you can help them? Is there anything else without connection with your business that can help them? Can you give them some quality advice about improvements of their lives? One thing is your help with your products and services, but another thing is your help on the personal level without buying and selling relations. If you can help them tell them that you will help them and help them. This can improve your own and your business reputation and credibility.</li>
<li><strong>Customers want to hear you as a human being not as a business or automated machine</strong>. Yes, you and your buyers are both human beings as a first. You need to talk with them the same way as you talk with everyone else in your personal life. You as an entrepreneur is also human being with your own problems, needs, knowledge, experience&#8230; Share them with your buyers, and they will share theirs with you. The knowledge that you will gain from this about them will be invaluable for you and your company.</li>
<li><strong>Customers want to hear about their ROI when they buy your products and services</strong>. Everyone who invests some type of resources as money, time or efforts will want to know what will get in return. How theirs lives will be better? How much time will be needed to receive what they want from your products and services? How much time will be needed for them to have a return of the investment in your products and services? These are the questions that you need to answer for them.</li>
<li><strong>Customers want to hear about other people who you and your business have helped in the past</strong>. More people who you and your business have helped in the past will bring more buyers for your business. You need to talk about other people problems and the solution that your business offer them to solve the problems. You need to talk and show the experience of other people with your business, their satisfaction and their opinion about you. The more powerful stories that will bring you great reputation and credibility are the stories from other people, not yours.</li>
</ol>
<p>Look at your behaviors when you talk with your buyers and think about following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>How are you approaching them?</li>
<li>How are introducing yourself and your business to them?</li>
<li>What is the first sentence that you tell them after introductory?</li>
<li>What is the second sentence that you tell them?</li>
<li>How they are responding on your introductory to them?</li>
<li>How they are responding on your next sentence?</li>
<li>Do you listen to them, or you simply want and think only to tell them what you have to tell them?</li>
<li>Do they ask you questions?</li>
<li>What are your answers on their questions?</li>
<li>How you can improve your approach when you talk with them?</li>
<li>You need to <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2622/improve-your-business-in-77-days-challenge/">improve</a> your behavior in the manner improve as you go if you want more buyers and more sales. It is nothing better than improvement based on your own personal experience.</li>
</ul>
<p>You are the entrepreneur, the person who needs to follow different behaviors and different responses from different prospects.</p>
<p>This post is only as ideas that you can use to improve your talking experiences with your current and potential buyers. Use them and brainstorm as much as possible ideas about different approaches that you can use. The feedback from your own experience will tell you what you need to <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/category/management/organizational-changes/">change</a> in order to improve the whole process.</p>
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		<title>[Infographic] The 10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today possibilities are everywhere. Our lives become more and more dependent on technology. Our decisions are based on real time informations. We need different type socialization, and we are able to communicate and share without limits. Because of the new way of living, there are more and more needs for something new, something better and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today possibilities are everywhere.</p>
<p>Our lives become more and more dependent on <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/category/technology/">technology</a>. Our decisions are based on real time informations. We need different type socialization, and we are able to communicate and share without limits. Because of the new way of living, there are more and more needs for something new, something better and something exceptional.</p>
<p>The time in which we are living gives us too many ideas, too many possibilities and to many weapons to start and running exceptional new type of businesses.</p>
<p>Young people become young entrepreneurs who quickly change how the world looks today</p>
<p>Look at this infographic about the 10 biggest entrepreneurs of 2011. What we can expect in 2012? Who will know?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.businessmba.org/top-entrepreneurs/"><img src="http://www.businessmba.org/top-entrepreneurs/biggest-entrepreneurs-2011.jpg" alt="10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011" width="680" border="0" /></a><br />
From: <a href="http://www.businessmba.org">Business MBA</a></p>
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		<title>How to Use Evernote to Improve Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dragan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evernote is a powerful tool that can be very helpful for your entrepreneurial life and your business. It has the potential to increase your productivity and ensure that you will not forget anything connected with your business. The biggest problem that I found using Evernote is to organize the notebooks for different usefulness for entrepreneurs. There are too many things [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.evernote.com/">Evernote</a> is a powerful tool that can be very helpful for your entrepreneurial life and your business. It has the potential to increase your productivity and ensure that you will not forget anything connected with your business.</p>
<p>The biggest problem that I found using Evernote is to organize the notebooks for different usefulness for entrepreneurs. There are too many things that an <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2452/how-to-become-an-entrepreneur/">entrepreneur</a> can make with this tool, and I would like to obtain as much as possible ideas how entrepreneurs can organize themselves for the better utilization of Evernote.</p>
<p>I will start with the <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2622/improve-your-business-in-77-days-challenge/">improvement ideas</a> that I think is something very useful. Why we need to start with the improvement ideas? First, entrepreneurs are people full with <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/category/business-startup-2/business-ideas/">ideas</a> about everything around their businesses. Many of the ideas can be easily forgotten if they are not immediately translated into actionable steps. But, some of them are worth now, while others are for the future. On the other hand, you can&#8217;t <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/1758/to-do-lists-how-can-you-finish-everything-on-the-list/">accomplish everything</a> that you dream in the same time. It&#8217;s not possible.</p>
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<h2>#1 Create Notebook for Improvement Ideas</h2>
<p><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/evernote-improvement-ideas.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3280" title="Evernote improvement ideas" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/evernote-improvement-ideas.png" alt="Evernote improvement ideas" width="449" height="228" /></a></p>
<p>First thing that you need to do is to make a notebook called as Improvement Ideas. The notebook is a collection of many notes. In your case, when you want to use Evernote to improve the business, this is the place where you will collect each idea from everywhere without analyzing, or thinking about the idea.</p>
<p>What you can put in this notebook?</p>
<p>For example, you are probably reading different online media as websites, blogs, news, tweets&#8230; Every time when you think that something that you are reading can be used to improve your business send to this notebook. You can use your Google reader to send ideas into the notebook, or you can use different tools that have integrated possibilities to send to Evernote. For example, I will mention some of the useful tools that you can use with Evernote:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mobile or tablet Evernote application which will help you to have all of your notes everywhere with you.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.evernote.com/about/trunk/items/evernote-clippers">Evernote Web Clipper</a> will enable you to save interesting stuff from the web through your browser.</li>
<li>You can email notes directly to your Evernote account and what is more important you can send the note to exact notebook that you want.</li>
<li>If you use an app as a web reader, the most of them have the possibilities to integrate with Evernote. I am using <a href="http://reederapp.com/mac/">Reeder for Mac</a> and from the application I can send the page to the Evernote.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is only the short example, but there are plenty of possibilities for integration in your everyday <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2514/entrepreneurial-life-5-inspirational-ted-talks-that-can-make-it-better/">entrepreneurial life</a>. Another thing that I need to mention is that you can also save audio and picture notes. For example, if you&#8217;re driving a car, we know that when we are driving our creativity is on the larger level, you can simply talk to your phone and save audio notes about your ideas for improvement. In such a way, you can&#8217;t forget what your creativity brings to your mind.</p>
<h2>#2 Create the Stack About Improvements</h2>
<p><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Evernote-Improvements-Stack.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3281" title="Evernote Improvements Stack" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Evernote-Improvements-Stack.png" alt="Evernote-Improvements-Stack" width="492" height="176" /></a>Now you have notebooks full of ideas about improvements. But, you need other notebooks that you will use for the implementation process about the ideas. Because of that  it is better to have better organized notebooks in your Evernote account.</p>
<p>One useful feature is to make a stack that will cover all of your notebooks connected about improvements. You can name the stack whatever you want. In this example, I will name it as Improvements.</p>
<h2>#3 Create Other Notebooks in the Stack Improvements</h2>
<p>You already have one stack called Improvements and one notebook in the stack called Improvement Ideas. Improvement ideas is something as a pull of informations about possible improvements that you can make in your business.</p>
<p>For the process, you will need additional notebooks that will clean up your process. You want to prioritize the ideas. You will have something that you need to implement tomorrow, but something probably is not important for tomorrow and because of that it can be placed on the waiting list.</p>
<p>After <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2615/day-4-prioritization-improve-your-business-in-77-days/">prioritization</a>, you need to plan your future steps about possible improvements that come for each idea. Your job will be to translate each idea into the actionable steps because ideas as ideas are not with without making them reality. The first step in making ideas reality is to brainstorm future action steps about improvements.</p>
<p>For these purposes, I will use following notebooks:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong></strong><strong>Improvement Ideas</strong>. Something that we make in the first step, and that represents pull of information.</li>
<li><strong>High-Priority Improvements</strong>. When you check your improvement idea notebook the first thing that you need to do is to prioritize each of the notes about possible improvements. This is your everyday job to clean everything from the improvement idea. When you find the note about improvement that you think to have high priority for implementation you can right click on the note and chose Move to Notebook and then choose High Priority Improvements. High priority means that you need to start with the planning implementation process as soon as possible, probably tomorrow, or this week.</li>
<li><strong>Medium-Priority Improvements</strong>. This is the second prioritization notebook that will collect notes with ideas that have medium priority. When you check improvement idea, everything that you think will have medium priority you can move to this notebook. Medium priority means that something needs to be implemented but not tomorrow or this week, it can wait until you finish everything in the high-priority notebook.</li>
<li><strong>Low-Priority Improvements</strong>. The third notebook is the one that will collect improvement ideas with the low priority. These types of ideas are not something that must be implemented as soon as possible, but they are something worth being implemented in the future when you empty everything from the high priority and medium priority notebook.</li>
<li><strong>Action Steps</strong>. Another notebook is about action steps that you, and your team needs to take to implement each of the improvement ideas. You can use separate note for each idea in the previous mentioned notebooks. Start with the notes in the high-priority notebook. Remember that these action steps are action steps that you as an <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/852/entrepreneurial-success-factors/">entrepreneur</a> need to take for the implementation process. Sometimes they will be something like: Define action steps for the implementation process, delegate tasks to employees, follow the implementation process and check the results from the implementation process.</li>
<li><strong>Delegated Tasks</strong>. Another useful thing that you as an entrepreneur can make is to use the share functionality of Evernote to <a href="http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/2054/delegate-to-increase-productivity/">delegate</a> tasks to your employees connected to improvement ideas. When you finish defining your action steps you need to make action steps for your employees. You are not alone in your business, and you can&#8217;t make everything alone. In this notebook, you can make different notes for different employees and their tasks connected with the improvement process and can be shared with their Evernote account. In such a way, you will use Evernote as a collaboration tool and to-do list for you and your employees. This will allow you to follow the implementation process.</li>
</ul>
<p>Now, your improvement stack will look like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Evernote-Notebooks-Improvement.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3279" title="Evernote Notebooks Improvement" src="http://media.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/wp-content/uploads/Evernote-Notebooks-Improvement.png" alt="Evernote Notebooks Improvement" width="190" height="143" /></a></p>
<h2>#4 The Whole Process</h2>
<p>If we summarize the process, it will look like this:</p>
<ul>
<li>Collect ideas for improvement from everywhere and send to improvement idea notebook.</li>
<li>Every day check everything in the improvement idea notebook, think about the ideas and based on prioritization send the ideas into the high, medium or low priority notebook.</li>
<li>Start with high-priority notebook and chose one idea, send to action step&#8217;s notebook and add your own action steps that you need to take.</li>
<li>For the same improvement idea in the notebook delegated tasks to make a different note with the tasks for different employees.</li>
<li>Share that notes with the employee responsible for the implementation of the tasks.</li>
<li>Follow implementation process and make action steps for the next idea in the high-priority notebook for which you need to repeat the process.</li>
<li>When you empty all notes form high-priority notebook, continue with the same steps for the medium priority notebook. When a medium priority notebook becomes empty continue with the low-priority notebook.</li>
</ul>
<p>This process is only as ideas how you can use Evernote in the improvement process of your business. You can make a better process, because the purpose, here is only to give you the ideas to become more productive and make continuous improvements in your business.</p>
<p>If you have something to say for the improvement of the above proposed process do not hesitate to share through the comment section below.</p>
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