Here are some great tips from Brand Eleven Eleven (BEE!)
(1) BEE Willing to Help
What efforts are you willing to make for your own success? That may sound like a silly question, but many business owners want others to do the hard work. Remember that no one believes more in your business than you.
(2) BEE Value Driven
What value does your product/service provide for others? Why is your business important? Significant? Useful? Think of ways to validate everything you do and everything you sell.
(3) BEE Focused
Every new business owner is excited in the first year, but most lose that enthusiasm in year two or three. Create new avenues of opportunities while staying focused on the reason you started a business in the first place.
(4) BEE Goal Oriented
You hear about goals all the time in business, but the true successful business owner will adjust his/her thinking each day if needed to reach those goals.
(5) BEE Stable
Humbling moments will arrive in every business. How will you handle those difficult days? How can you stay motivated when nothing seems possible anymore? Only you can answer those questions.
(6) BEE Showing
You have to get out of the office and get in front of your target audience. Remember that social media should be considered an afterthought. Find ways to interact with your potential clients/customers in person, rather than in a laptop.
(7) BEE Innovating
Create products/services that will be useful five years from now. Never stop generating ideas to improve while building new marketing campaigns. Build ideas on ideas!
(8) BEE a Leader
In order for you to become successful, you need to show your target audience that you are an expert in the industry. One of the most popular ways to do this is writing a mini-book to benefit your target audience and promote your business. (Brand Eleven Eleven has a professional writer on staff that has written over 50 books! If you need help, let us know!)
(9) BEE Inspired
An enthusiastic business turns into an enlightening business which turns into an encouraging business which becomes a profitable business!
(10) BEE Responsible
Taking accountability for every action, every decision, and every non-decision should start and end with you. If things go wrong, fix it, or change it, but never pass the blame.
(11) BEE Trusting
Customers that trust a business will be loyal. If you have 100 loyal customers, that can turn into 1,000 and then 10,000. This growth is based on trust!