Celebrating New Business, Next Steps
Ann Hawkins
Advisor and thinking partner to small business owners. I help you create strategies and stay on track to achieve your goals. Working to make the world a better place for all of us through creative collaborations.
Eight years ago today the book I was invited to write with Ed Goodman was No 1 Bestseller in Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge.?
It's interesting that most of the content is exactly the same advice as I talk about today, except for the chapter on marketing which is changing even faster now that it was then!?
Timeless business advice
The things you need to run a good business now are the same as they were in 578AD when Kongo Gumi,?the oldest, continually operating company in the world was started. (Its a construction company specialising in Buddhist temples and was run by the same family for 1,400 years.)
Today I asked members of Drive, the Collaborative Network, what they know now that they wished they'd known when they started their business.
This is what they told me:
The enduring things that every business owner needs to manage well are:
And all of these things need to be related to your goals:
Advice on how to build a business is timeless - there is no silver bullet, no hack, no way to get rich quick, so if you have specific questions I’m happy to answer them.
You can find most of the answers you need on my blog or you may still be able to buy the book!