Tomah Chamber & Visitors Center Newsletter December Newsletter

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Monthly Newsletter dec 2019
Reflecting on 2019
and making 2020 even
better!
Credit: By Susan Ward, The Balance Small Business
The end of the year is a good time to reflect on your
business’s progress over the past year and plan how you want
your business to develop. Do you want increased success in
the coming year or more chances to enjoy the success you’ve
achieved? These top New Year’s resolutions are designed
to help you do both: strike a better work-life balance and
increase your business success in the new year.
1. Learn to Delegate and Do More of It
There are so many things to do when you’re running a small
business, it’s easy to delude ourselves that we need to do all
of them. Then we wonder why we’re so tired and frazzled
and have no time to do anything else. Let someone else do
some of the tasks for a change. Delegation is the key to a
healthy work-life balance.
2. Promote Your Business Regularly and
Consistently
Too often the task of promoting a small business slips to the
bottom of the to-do list in the press of urgent tasks. If you
want to attract new customers, you have to make promotion
a priority. One of your top New Year’s resolutions should
be to hire a marketing expert or take the time to create a
marketing plan on your own and follow through. Try some
of these low-cost ways to promote your business to get
started.
3.
Make Business
Planning a Weekly Event
Planning is vital if you want a healthy, growing business.
Business planning lets you take stock of what worked and
what didn’t work, and helps you set new directions or
adjust old goals. So why do it just once a year or once a
quarter? Set aside time each week to review, adjust, and look
forward—or even better, make business planning a part of
each day. Not only will this help you avoid costly mistakes
and stay on track, but you’ll feel more focused and relaxed.
4. Learn Something New
What you choose to learn may be directly related or
completely unrelated to your business. Learning something
new will add to your skills and add a new dimension of
interest to your life—another important part of achieving
a healthy work-life balance and increasing your business
success. Business consultants, trainers, and business coaches
can help set you on a path to adopting new skills. Depending
on how you choose to learn, you may meet new and
interesting people, who may become customers, colleagues,
or friends. How will you find the time to learn something
new? Delegation. (cont’d on page 6)