This is a very interesting and important topic.  What does your business depend on?  A lot of people think that a new business depends upon the owner or the creator.  Well, it does at the very begining but for a business to achieve real long term success, the business needs to depend upon systems. 

I put together a short video to explain this more.

I hope that you see the importance of having systems for your business.  Now, if you want to have a small business, you know, just a couple of hundred dollars every month, you might not need to do anything.  But if you want to really create success, you will need to have systems. 

If you have a bookkeeper, you will need a system to manage that person plus how you get all the financial stuff to them.  That is a system. 

If you have someone that does some of your marketing, you will need to generate a system to get the content to them that you want them to market.  You will also need to have a system to communicate with that person or company.

If you hire an employee, you will need many systems around them in the way of communicating with them and having them stay productive.  If they don’t work at the same location as you do, how will you manage the time that they work? 

These are all things that you will need to create systems for if you want real long term business success. 

I hope that you have found this usefull.  If you have, please share this by hitting the “retweet” button below and leave me a comment below.  I always enjoy reading what you have to say. 

Talk to you soon.

Steven Downward

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With so many people getting into business that have never really owned or ran a business before, I felt the need to share a big about setting up a business.  See, this is an area that can be critical to achieving success with owning a business. 

Now I know that this is not something that is talked about all that much but it is an area that if done well from the beginning, it can really increase the speed for your success.  Let me put it this way.  Normally, when someone starts a business they’re the ones doing most, if not all of the work.  And that’s fine if you want to be a self employed person and being a slave to your business. 

But if you don’t want to be a slave to your business then you need to set up the business so that you can get other people to do the work for you. 

Now I’m not talking about outsourcing your business to other companies here.  That is a good idea but you still need to manage the contractors to make sure that they’re doing a good job.  What I’m talking about is setting up the structure of your business so that you will not always have to be the one watch everything. 

See there are areas that every business needs to have and realistically, there should be a manager taking care of that department.  Then you only need to deal with that one person, the manager, for you to find out everything you need to know about what is happening with that area of your business. 

There are a couple of key sections that you should plan to have a manager looking after for you.  Things like Marketing/Sales and Finance.  These two sections should have someone looking after them and making sure that they are moving forward.

Now what about when you are first starting or you are very small, should you still have these sections? 

Absolutely YES.  It’s just that you will be the one managing that position in the beginning.  But you should still plan and think about what you’re going to need. 

Let’s put it this way.  If you go and write out your business structure, the areas or sections of your business, it isn’t hard to figure out what each of the posistions need to be doing and what their responsibilities are.  This way, as your business gets bigger, you’ve already set out what you will need in the way of an employee and what their responsibilities will be. 

So just to give you an example.  Most people don’t really like to deal with the finances but they know that they need too.  So you might want to structure this department with a bookkeeper/administrator and a CFO (Chief Financial Officer).  Like I said, you might be one or both of these in the beginning but by know this and what each of these people will be responsible for, you will know what you need and where your business will be heading.  (Plus, this is big for the Law of Attraction)

I suggest that you spend some time and look at this for your business.  This is one of those things that you hear about where you will be working ON your business and not IN your business.  This is also one of those things that will move your business forward faster because you will know where you need to be going. 

I would love to finish this post off with a bit of a story that I heard from Steven Covey, I think.

In the forest there is a group of people that want to put a road from one end to the other.  There are all of these different workers working away at choping down the trees with their axes, and others sharpening the axes, and others cutting all the branches off of the trees that have fallen, and even more people dragging all of the branches and logs away. 

Then there are managers that are out there making sure that the workers are staying fresh and are on the right track.  They are putting on courses and trainings that teach the workers how to be more effective.  These managers are making sure that the workers are following the plan that has been laid put for them, and so forth.

Then there is the leader.  This person climbs the highest tree in the whole forest and surveys the land to make sure that they’re going in the right direction.  Then this person yells down to the managers… “WRONG FOREST!!!” 

I really like that story because it shows how there needs to be people at every level of the business and how each of them has their own responsibilities.  Now with you being the CEO or the Owner, YOU need to be that leader and guide your people in the right direction so that your business moves forward successfully.

But to do this, you need to make sure that you have your business structure set up and planed out.  The sooner you do this, the sooner you will be able to effectively get other people to work for you to produce your business more money. 

Again, I suggest that you look at this for your business.  You will be happy that you did. 

Talk to you later.

Steven Downward

PS: I would love to hear about some of the things that you have done to set up and structure your business.  Leave me a comment below and I would love it if you could tweet this out and share it with other people that are just starting out with their business.  ;-)

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I am sure that you are aware, in business, we end up having to do a lot of different things to keep our businesses moving forward and creating success. 

One of the things that I have noticed is that we end up having some different takes that are almost daily or weekly tasks.  You know, things like checking our stats, communicating with people, marketing activities, putting out new content…

Then we also have things that tend to be bigger projects.  Thing like creating a system for an are of your business, dealing with site creation, putting together a new project…

But what I have notice in myself and in other people is that we have a hard time doing both of these things at the same time.  An example from my life is right now I am working on a big project for my business and I have noticed that I have not been wanting to put something together for my blog.

But the funny thing is that creating something new for my blog is part of how I generate new traffic and new leads for my business.  So what needs to end up happening is that we need to create a system where we can and do both of these at the same time.

A business does not operate on just one part of the system.  Putting out new content or doing different regular marketing activities builds the people that you can communicate with but the major projects are what normally brings in the most cash.

So how do we do both? 

It’s through creating a system that works well for you and your business.  I know for myself, I do certain activities first thing in the morning.  I know that these regular activities will take me so much time and then after that is done, I have the rest of the day to work on my major projects.

But that is me.  So what will work well for you?

How will your business grow the fastest?

Do you need to hire someone to do some of the projects or some of the activities?

All these things need to be looked at and created systems for so that your business will grow as fast as it can.  So take the time and develop these systems.  Once you have, your business will move that much faster. 

Steven Downward

PS: This was something that took me a little bit to really understand and to really get.  So please share this with some people.  It very much might make a difference for them and their business like it has done for me.

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So how important is it – outsourcing to other people?  Is it really something that you want to be doing in your business?  In actual fact, it is, and there is a couple of very precise reasons why you want to be doing this. 

1) Skills – In your business, you want to be having expert people doing as much of the work as you can.  Through having an expert doing what they are good at means that you will save a massive amount of time from you having to figure out how to do it.  It will also get done correctly the first time. 

2) The Productivity Pyramid – This is really talking about you.  In short terms it basically says that you need to be doing the most productive thing possible at any given moment.  If you are doing a task that you can pay someone $15/hr to do but another task that you could be doing will generate your business $25/hr, then you need to hire someone to do the $15/hr task.  It is tat simple. 

I put together a video for you here to watch and see what it is that I am talking about.

So like I talked about in the video, the power of it, outsourcing to other people, is very very important.  Through doing this, outsourcing as much as you can for your business means that you will have more time to work “ON” your business instead of “IN” your business.  This is how the real productivity happens.  This is how your business really grows fast. 

So I said that I would put up a couple of links of different places where you can go to get a specialist to do the work for you.  The two places I go are:

1) The Warrior Forum

2) Elance

Both of these places have people that you can hire to do anything from build you a little graphic for a website to building a full website to book keeping to lawyers.  You can find all sorts of different people to take care of all sorts of different area’s of your business.

So I would recomend sitting back for a minute and looking at your business and deciding if there is some area that you are spending a lot of time on that might help your business grow faster if you hire someone else to do it for you.

Talk to you later

Steven Downward

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Today I wanted to share something with you that has made a very big and dramatic impact on my life.  It’s a gentleman by the name of T. Harv Eker and his company Peak Potentials.  T. Harv and his company, Peak Potentials, really helped me open my eyes and showed me things about myself, my money, and how I manifest money. 

I will explain more in this video that I have put togeher for you. 

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So I am sure that you can tell from the video that T. Harv Eker is someone that has made a very big influence in my life.  Because of the principles that he taught me, I have been able to take my “Money Blueprint” and change it so I do not have to work at a job anymore.  That to me is very very big.

So I said that I would put up a video so that you can see this one course that really made a big difference in my life, “Millionaire Mind Intensive“.    Check it out.

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So I am sure that you can see that this is a great course and something that I totally recommend to anyone that wants to change their financial life.  If you want to see how Harv Eker can assist you in taking your financial life to the next level just head on over to his site www.millionairemind.com and see how you can change your financial blueprint.

I also mentioned that I would put down T. Harv Eker’s Twitter page so that you can follow him too.  www.Twitter.com/T_Harv_Eker He is really great to follow because he puts up great quotes and he really lets you see into hi life.

I hope that you go out there and make the decision to change your financial life my friend. 

To Your Success.

Steven Downward

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More and more, we are seeing people in the home based business world using the internet to build their business, but they seem to miss the part about having a sales funnel.  They are coming onto the internet and trying to do what they had been doing offline but it’s not working here either. 

It’s because they have never set up a real sales funnel that they can use to guide their traffic to making a real decision and getting real information. 

So watch this training so that you will know what it is that I am talking about:

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Like I said in the video, be a leader.  Step up and make the changes in your business and create a real sales funnel that will bring you the success that you are after.  You will have bigger results because of it. 

If you want to see how you can start your sales funnel easily you can check out www.TheRealOnlineTraining.com.  Here you can get a complete sales funnel set-up in a matter of a couple of hours.  I have been using this since its creation to create new funnels all the time.

So I will chat with you later.

Steven Downward

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