How to calculate your Success?
Shahriar RAEISI
Business Development Professional | Sales Leader | Specialized in PPE , Tobacco , Food & Beverage industries
You have big dreams, and you have set goals filled with excitement and setting your fears aside, you are off and running towards your fears aside, but it's more complicated than you thought it would be.
What's going on?
That's a question that was on my and stakeholders' mind when started ever first leisure business in 2014!
Our new new business was growing but slower than expected. We were beginning to wonder if our dreams would come true. Stress was high and time and money were running out! Having seen these situations before, I decided to walk us 3 questions that while would have been better answers "before starting the business", it wasn't too late.
My first question was; "how long do we thnk it will take us to learn the skills required to succeed? Sales, marketing, customer service, PR, souring materials, menu and recipes, anythings and everything needed to run a successful business".
Everything takes time, and you need to be able to survive the learning time.
Next, I wanted to know how long we were willing to work at the goal. Were we committed for as long as it takes, or was a deadline?
Building momentum in anything can be exhausting. How long can you keep going?
I saved the most important question for last..
How long it will take us burn through our Resources? Cash, credit lines, free rent of our building, favors given by friends and family.
Knowing the answers to that questions can be humbling and scary. It can be set you free.
After several hours of our learn, work and burn our conversation, my partners were able to pinpoint exactly how long they had to reach their goal.
With a definite timeline, the entire team focused their energy on the minimal viable actions that would be achieve success and fit their schedule. Within months, we reached our goal and have enjoyed a successful business ever since.
Whether you own business or not, any worthwhile project stands after better chance of success when you are realistic about the process before ever get started.
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