Taking Things To The Next Level

December 12, 2017

It doesn’t matter what we’re talking about here. Business, relationships, career, you just know when it’s time to move things to the next level. But for the purpose of this article, we’re talking about business. When you run your own, you will have put in hours of hard work to get where you are today. But at some point, you need to make that transition to the next level. To do that you need to really make your mark in the market, here’s a short guide of how to do that successfully.
Preparation
You need to be prepared to take on your competition. To begin with, you will have just been trying to get by, sell your products, and start to make a bit of a profit. As you get bigger, so does your competition to you. Suddenly you’ll start to notice how well they’re doing, and how well you could be doing with just a bit of preparation. The first thing you need to do is make sure you have the best of the best. We’ll start with equipment first. A lot of companies are your old school brick and mortar. If yours is too, make sure you have the best tills, the best layout in your store, and the best stocking equipment that you can have. Make sure you know who to go to if things go wrong as well. A Barcode Scanner Repair service is something a lot of shops will need to use at some point. If you work in an office, you’ll most likely have phones and laptops that you and your staff work off, Make sure they’re the best of the best as well. There’s plenty of guides on the internet that will help you decide which ones are going to be best for your company.
Guidance
Sometimes to know what direction to take, you need to follow in the footsteps of others. But you need to be careful here. There’s a fine line between taking a bit of inspiration for guidance, and stealing. Make sure you keep everything as original as possible and make it a bit more personal to your business. The main things you want to be looking for however, are what their customer interaction is like, what their quality of product is like, and what their sales technique is. Those 3 things there should be the foundation of any business. It all ultimately determines whether a business will be successful or not. The best way to do this is by going in as a sort of spy. Be a customer and see how their processes work. As well as picking out what they do good, so what the bad side to their service is and use it to your advantage as much as possible.
Those two things listed above should help to take your business to the next level. It’ll be an exciting, risky, and challenging time all rolled into one, but when you finally do make it to the big league it’ll be more than worth it.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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