I can picture it now, the Adult Industry masses standing atop the largest of Mountains giving a big middle finger to 08! Crap sales, tubes, slow sales, piracy, dead sales, gov regs and more crud sales, 08 in general didn't go over so well for most of the Adult Industry.
But I can now look back, errr... I mean forward into 09, yes forward. With the Presidential change around the corner I'm certain that my slot on the Forbes Billionaire list is all but secured.
To help make sure I don't fall a few million short of my goal, I thought creating quick list of 7 Business New Year's Resolutions should help keep me on track throughout the year.
Delegate more work / manage better.
As a single business owner with only contracted staff, this topic couldn't ring more true. The task of delegating work and managing staff or a team is extremely important to running a great Company and living a happy life that one can actually enjoy.
For myself both of these factors are major limitations in my own Companies growth and personal life. This isn't a problem limited to myself, I know from working with many others in this Industry that many of us need help in this area. Being so, it tops it the chart as my #1 Resolution for the year!
Read more, learn more, and master more skills.
Video games, chat forums, some social sites, the Internet is filled with attention whoring sites and features that keep people busy for millions of hours a year. These half brain dead activities tend to burn up hours for boredom reasons rather than true fulfilling entertainment. Like any habit, rather than dropping it cold, try replacing it with something equally as additive.
Learning doesn't have to be locked into just the Adult Industry or even Business. Even though learning how to better Manage people or delegate work is important, it isn't always that entertaining.
That's where learning to cook a new food, paint art, learning build or repair something and even learn to travel the world for super cheap, whatever the desires are the Internet has information on it. To reach this point though, I personally need to delegate a bit more work.
Expand on Business and Product Brands by networking better.
The small Company and sole proprietorship probably need to focus on networking more but even the biggest Companies can benefit from more efficient networking and brand exposure.
For most of us in this Business, networking with others is vital to our existence. From posting on forums, sending out press releases, working the show floor, in general making people trust us is an important role for success in this business. As the years pass on, many of us fall into a drone mode. We post on the same topics, talking to the same people at shows, promoting the same brand at the same place to the same people.
Networking better, is about being smarter and paying attention to what and where branding takes place. Start by expanding on your current networking/forums, like starting more new topics. Contribute on different topics where you have to ask questions, helping get people to notice your name. Open your brand exposure and find new areas to easily expose it, like posting a Comment on TheDocBlog and other Blogs you may read.
Create a weekly goals and to-do list.
When the start of the week comes around, sit down and lay out what needs to be done for that workweek. Don't forget to add in a little time for yourself, like playing golf, hitting the gym or for this time of year, shoveling the sidewalk.
The weekly goal list is a simple checklist that you can scratch off as tasks get completed. Keep the goals very short-term and focused on your tasks at hand. Don't cram the list so full you have no time left for learning, networking or personal time. As you burn out on little daily projects on the goal list, use the downtime to read, learn and network.
Create joint projects with others.
While out networking and meeting new Business clients and friends, be sure to open yourself up for some possible join venture projects with trusted people. Building strong relationships with others can really help build motivation while helping delegate out important tasks that only Owners truly care about.
Many in the Industry seem to be stuck when it comes to fresh ideas or locked in a cycle of watching what everyone else is doing. What most aren't doing is pulling resources together, setting special time aside for these projects, and actually creating fulfilling joint projects.
Rather than getting stuck in the same old rut, try working with others to create new ideas and projects with. You may just find a whole new world of ideas and possibilities that you may not have otherwise ever thought of.
Optimize Company expenses and income.
It's the best of feelings knowing that you just expanded on an income stream or saved yourself a ton of money. The nice thing about having a goal like this is it can happen just about every Month of the year and there is nothing like repetitive self-gratifying satisfaction.
Optimizing income is the easily the most work and greatly varies based on your business model, but it can easily have the greatest rewards. The basics include talking to your primary sponsors for an increase in pay, getting clients on a rebilling cycle, turning passive income into recurring income, and talk to companies before you invoice to pitch for extra services or pre-paid deals. In short, create more income off the income streams you currently already have.
Then every few months as habit and always after downtime or errors by others, I contact Companies and ask for discounts or if any specials are going on. Why pay more money out when companies will give you price breaks?
You can save thousands each year, just by talking with people you already do business with. Such as, hosting and bandwidth providers, local and cell phone providers, processing company fees, bank fees and packages, and all types of content providers from DVDs to Paysite plugins. Even ask for discounts on tgp/trade scripts, when buying traffic or links, design services, and labor work, it's your money to save so ask!
This is easily one of the quickest and most efficient ways to recover possible lost money and save yourself from unnecessary cash going out the door when it should be in your pocket! But it doesn't work if you don't ask!
Too bored to be lazy?
Bored or lazy, the end result is nothing is getting done! All New Years Resolutions all have one thing in common. They don't mean anything if we don't get off our lazy ass and do something to make them happen!
Once that little bit of boredom starts to set in, don't turn to Television or Games, turn to learning and expanding the mind with something new. Turn to the family or writing something, learning a new skill, playing music, whatever it is.
The point is training the mind to not slip into the same time consuming 'boring' activities that don't really return any life rewards. Once you clear out the clutter you able to focus more on your goals and create true life rewards.
New Years Resolutions for a Business or Work is really more of a way to improve and expand on what you are already doing.
Create your own list of wants, desires, and goals for your own Company, job or life. Remove what is impossible and the clearly stupid from the list and post a comment here about them. Then simply, get off your lazy ass and make your real goals happen.
~TheDoc
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