The 3 Building Blocks to Starting and Growing a Successful Business

You’ve probably clicked and visited this blog because you’re a budding entrepreneur with an eye for building your own successful business. Perhaps you’ve started a business and are looking for some helpful advice. Or, you may be thinking of starting one and need some tips on achieving success.

Whatever your reason and no matter where you are at right now with your business idea, I want to share with you the proven and generally accepted building blocks to every successful business. These all work in any type of business you want to run or you’re running right now.

1. Your Workforce

A massive part of your business success will stem from the people that work for you. Without them, your business wouldn’t get half as much done. It would just be you, on your own, trying to do one thousand and one things at a time. The key is making sure your employees are well motivated and ready to be productive. If you can do this, they will be getting loads of work done. Productive employees equal a successful business.

But, how do you make your employees more productive? Well, there are numerous things you can do here. For starters, you could create a productive working environment in the office. Get rid of any distractions that will disrupt your employees. You should also make sure your office is kitted out with all the latest and greatest technology. Having updated computers and devices can make your employees far more productive. They can get more things done in a short space of time. In fact, slow computers are probably the reason a lot of businesses aren’t as productive as they’d like. You’d be amazed at how much a slow computer can stop you achieving over the course of a year.

Secondly, you need to ensure that your employees are in good health. If an employee has a health problem, they may not be as productive as they were before. By health problem, I’m talking about things like a cold or tiredness. Tiredness is the number one cause of unproductive employees. So, get them checked out to make sure they’re all fit and ready to work. You can get an occupational health assessment at Health Assured for your employees. By doing this, you can see if everyone is healthy and able to work to their full potential. If you find any are suffering from exhaustion, you can give them time off to recover. Likewise, you can find out any other health problems they have, and help solve them. Healthy employees are far more productive than unhealthy ones.

My final point is short and sweet. To get productive employees, you need to motivate them. There are loads of ways you can motivate employees; it varies from business to business. One of the best ways is to set goals. By setting goals, you’re giving your employees something to work towards. It can make a whole load of difference to productivity.

2. Your Customers

Another huge part of business success lies with your customers. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do; your business needs customers. A business without customers is like a car without wheels. Sure, the car may look nice and have cool things inside, but it can’t go anywhere. Your business won’t be able to move forward and grow if you don’t have loyal customers.

How does a business get loyal customers? It’s a fairly simple concept; anyone can get customers if they try hard enough. You have to ensure that your marketing strategy is on point. This means using a load of different marketing techniques and tools. You should use digital marketing strategies, as well as more traditional ones. Of course, the biggest thing to remember is the people you’re targeting your business at. When you came up with your business plan, you probably pinpointed your target demographic. You came up with a description of the type of people that would be interested in your business. The best way to get customers is to promote your business to this target market. So, all the marketing techniques you use should all be aimed at the target group. This makes it far more likely for you to get customers and have success.

Once you have customers, you want to make sure they stay loyal to you. You can keep bringing in new customers, but it won’t mean much if you’re losing your old ones. So, you have to find ways to keep you old customers. It’s really easy to do this, it all revolves around customer service. If you’re providing a great customer service, your customers will want to stay with you. You have to put them first and make sure you’re there to help. You should also consider offering deals and discounts to customers that have been with you for a long time. By doing this, you’ll make people want to stay with you in the hope that they’ll receive a special deal! It’s so important, for business success, that you keep your customers happy.

3. Your Reputation

The final building block to a successful business is your reputation. Businesses will live or die based on what people think of them. Those with a good reputation, tend to be successful whereas a business with a poor reputation tends to be unsuccessful.

But, what is a good business reputation? What separates the men from the boys?

In general, professionalism is seen as an important business trait. A professional business is a respected business. If you go about things in a professional manner, your reputation will increase. Your business will seem more authentic; people will take notice of this. To be professional, you should look to get an office. If you don’t have one, people may question your authenticity. You don’t look like a proper business. Thus, your reputation will diminish slightly.

Besides the above, it’s also important that your business acts within the confines of the law. If you do any shady work, you’ll start to get a certain reputation. People will look at your business as shady and think you’re trouble. Consumers will stay away because they’ve heard that you do illegal business. Make sure your business is obeying all laws, and its reputation won’t be threatened.

Having a good reputation is essential if you want a successful company. Hope these ideas help you build that business of your dreams.