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Downsize Your Business

Not in the files and storage room sense. Not in the set up of the lobby or the layout of the office furniture. Those are good ideas but that’s not what I’m shooting for here.

I’m talking about recreating a new business model that works in a down economy. Reducing expenses, streamlining processes, organizing digital tools, empowering employees, repositioning marketing dollars- that’s the ticket in this economy. More with less.

Now if you’re lean and mean and flexible, you can move and adapt quicker than the competition. Even if there is no competition you can adjust to your customers demands. Instead of building products and figuring out how to market them, you can listen to what people are asking for and give it to them. You can create a more compelling story.

Instead of focusing on up-sizing revenue, profits and cash all the time, how about a few years  of breaking down current fat business models and making them lean. Costco and Zappos come to mind.

The road to wealth lies in augmenting our means or diminishing our wants, either will do, but the quickest way is to do both- Ben Franklin

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Johnie Marketer meets Sally Service

If you’re Johnie Marketer then you need to make sure your small business or non profit has Sally Service. If all those people you bring in the front door are going straight out the back, then what’s the point. We all know it’s easier to sell an existing customer something than it is to go and get a new customer from scratch. Well why is all the emphasis placed on marketing?

Sally Service has a big place in your business. If she’s not there then Jonhnie Marketer, can sometimes do more damage than good. Also Sarah Systems should be somewhere in the mix. If your systems and methods of operation are not consistent your competition will destroy you on price in this recessionary environment. It’s hard enough if you have good service, but if you don’t have Sarah Systems then you probably won’t have Sally Service. If you do have Sarah and Sally doing their best then you’ve gotta think Johnie Marketer’s job just got a whole lot easier.

I have an idea. Let’s shoot for remarkable service to go along with the remarkable marketing. Then eventually you can spend your time refining your business because if it’s remarkable as Seth Godin says it will spread. If it’s boring it will not. I am going to stop writing now and go work on making my blogs, marketing, systems and service more remarkable. Not enough people are talking about them yet. I’d like to help you make your company remarkable too. Interested Click here.

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