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Happy New Year

 

 

Last year was a challenging year for me. I had to joggle being e new mum and running my business. Oh boy what a challenge indeed.

In June 10th i gave birth to my little girl Zaina. She’s a little wonder.

Beacause of her i had to make a lot of changes in business to spend time with her.

Last year I wasn’t proactive enough. I spent most of the time learning new ways to grow my business but had no time to implement it.

So this year ‘am moving forward in my business by implemting most of the things that have learnt, so look forward to great things.  

To move forward I need to talk about the mistakes I’ve made

What Mistakes?

1.  Develop systems sooner: If I had to do it over, I would’ve started my blog sooner. I had a lead generation site that was getting subscribers but the list was not responsive. I kept sending them emails with just a 20% open rate because of that I wasn’t able to get my programs sold. It was difficult for me to have my programs full. If I had known I would have started blogging sooner. I get people signing up for me RSS frequently and these subscribers read my post.  I created pillar articles that got featured on popular bloggers and this had lead to an increase in readers.
2.  Outsourced task sooner: One of the issues that affect’s a lot of small business owners is that they try to do too much on their own because of the cost associated with outsourcing or they think they can do it more better. Well what I’ve notice over the years is that the sooner you outsource task that are not directly related to the money the better. Your goal should be to be more efficient in our business, because when we are efficient we increased our income dramatically.

I’m sure there are others, but that’s ok. Nobody’s perfect, but I will continue to strive for perfection. 

1. Make Daily Goals – Whenever I do this for my business, I end up being much more effective. I plan on doing that  much more in 2009.
2. Double my income for 2009- By creating more programs and packages. I believe that there will be an income explosion 2009.  
3. Outsource more – I’m enjoying what I do right now, but it can get quite tedious. Since working with Fabienne Frederickson, I’ve outsourced much more than I normally would. I have hired an virtual assistant and a personal assistant. In 2009, I hope to hire another virtual assistant that can help with managing my programs and most of my business operations.
4. Help more people – This has been the most rewarding part of what I do. When I get messages from people letting me know how much they’ve benefited from what I do, it gives me the energy to continue.
5. Pay off all my debt – In comparison to many others, I guess my debt isn’t that huge. But by the end of the year, I would like to pay off my car, credit cards and personal loans. I’ve already paid off a significant amount but there is still more to get rid off. I believe I can be debt free by the end of 2009.
6. Post more often to my blog. This year I will be doing a lot of videos. I have just got a new camera – Lumix DMC-TZ5 and this works fine in taking really cool videos.
7. Comment a bit More . To get more traffic I decided to start commenting on some popular blogs, I don’t comments enough. I try to answer people questions but I don’t get  more involved.  I need to.

8. Participate More in the Comments – To get more traffic I decided to start commenting on some popular blogs, I don’t comments enough. I try to answer people questions but I don’t get  more involved.  I need to.

   So that’s my summary of 2008 and projections for 2009. It has been great so far and I believe there is more success to come. Can wait for them to unfold.

   I would LOVE to hear what some of your goals are, so please leave some comments below.

   ~ Joyce Oladipo

   Joyce Oladipo, The Business Growth & Marketing Mentor, is creator of the Profit Building system, the proven step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to grow your business fast without spending extra money on marketing. To Add $1,000’s In Pure Profit To Your Business and receive her weekly marketing articles on dramatically increasing your income, visit www.BeAWealthyEntrepreneur.com

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