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How To Succeed in 2009

by Janet Attard

Would you like to improve your business (or your life) in 2009?

Do you want more customers, more sales, more profits, higher income, or more time to spend with family and friends?

No matter what you hope to achieve in the New Year, here's the secret to success: Reverse engineer your goal. Here's how to do it.

Write down what you want to accomplish. This is your goal.

Set a specific date for reaching your goal.

Define your goal clearly. For instance, how much do you want to increase sales? What would the dollar amount be?

Break the goal down into steps. If you want to increase sales by $100,000 by the end of this year, you might break the goal down into four steps, increasing sales at each step by $25,000.

Plan and schedule the actions you'll take to reach each step.

Write down your plans.

Track and record your progress weekly.

This simple strategy – defining your goal, breaking it down in steps, planning the actions to reach each step and tracking and recording your progress can be used to accomplish just about anything you want to accomplish in business or in life.

Posted by on January 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM | Comments (12)

Comments

Well said, Janet!
Keep the good tips coming!

Happy New Year!
Urban Gavelin
SWEDEN

Posted by: Urban Gavelin of Bottleneck Strategies on January 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM

yes, it is simple, but that actual part of doing it, is what escapes me. i guess i'll have to use discipline, rewards and threats to stick to it and do it.

Posted by: Steve on January 7, 2009 at 10:49 AM

simple but perfect aproaching to wery important element of business-success and growth.
bravo Janett
p.s.
Happy New Year!
best regards

Posted by: boris on January 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM

i will use this formula to increase my sales volume and bank balance.i am sure it will work.

thanks

Posted by: Raj on January 8, 2009 at 8:14 AM

Happy New Year to you Janet & your team. I have been reading your inspiring & practical articles for a few years now. Thanks for your great work. My business has after 2 years has just started to take off ( I am into corporate gifts supplies )with lots of valuable tips from your website. Pl. keep up the great work. All the very best in 2009 & in the years to come. - Sayee Jayaraman, India.

Posted by: sayee jayaraman on January 9, 2009 at 1:40 AM

Hey!

I saw your website Today wanted to tell thanks 2 u all

You Cheered me Up..... We shall be Positive ... Wisdomly...Courageous... and be in realms of success for ever InshaAllah.

Posted by: Mohammed Iqbal on January 12, 2009 at 9:43 AM

well said Janet, i also believe planing is the best tool to overcome.

Posted by: Waqar Ali on January 21, 2009 at 6:15 AM

janet what u said is right.
nothing new in that what u suggested.ofcourse due to planning all will work, eventhough we kept the planning schedule and plan,the plan must be executed properly and to execute that plan business must also be available.with whole heartedness we do also sometimes target cant be reached. i have gone through such situations even after planning in work target is not reached.
so pl suggest something new and which works at its best.

Posted by: sony on January 28, 2009 at 4:43 AM

Hi!
Great advice - thanks for cheering us up.

I was wondering what you think about this

www.6fis.com

?

Have a great day

Hannah

Posted by: Hannah on January 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Well said.

Posted by: PVS Shankar on February 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM

Perhaps the problem was that the goals you set weren't realistic. To work, goals must be realistic.

For instance, suppose your goal is to double sales next quarter. If your business is new, and you had $1000 worth of sales last quarter, and there is a market for your product, doubling sales is probably a realistic goal. But if you've been in business a while, did a million dollars in sales last quarter and are in an industry that's on the decline, doubling sales may not be a realistic goal.

If planning doesn't help accomplish your goals, you have to re-examine the goals to see if they are realisting and look at your planning, too, to see if there's any one place the plans are falling through.

Posted by: Janet Attard Author Profile Page on February 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM

Very simple, yet very effective tips here. Thank you. Even though these were the 2009 tips, you'll be sure I'll be trying this to start off 2010.

Posted by: Neptune Plumbing on December 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM

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