Strategic Business Tips from Kim Beasley

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With the New Year starting today, I decided to start a new month-long series to help business owners find different ways to grow their businesses. During this month, I will share different tips that will help you to not only grow your business but also manage its growth.

Some of the topics that I plan on covering this month are:

• Cross marketing
• Social media
• Business management
• Virtual support teams
• Blogging

As I share these tips, I want to encourage you to respond with a comment about how they have helped you with your business or share additional information of how you currently are using the chosen topic. I’m looking forward to hearing of great things for everyone.

As business look for ways to “Go Green”, many may wonder if it is profitable. To help a business stay profitable, the business owner must find ways of sustainability in their business. This can be done by assessing business processes, tools and equipment to see if you can find ways to “Go Green”.

Areas that can be affect when you are going green in your business are….

• Utilities such as electricity usuage when turning off equipment that’s not in use
• “Green” equipment such as printers that use ink in a more economical way
• Recycling products that you have used and buying recycled products
• If you work outside the home, try to incorporate ways were you can work from home 1 – 2 time per week

Although these may seem like small steps that you can take, the all make a difference. I would love to hear of ways that you are planning on going green in your business. Please feel free to share.

Now that winter has passed us by and Spring just said goodbye, Summertime is upon us an I want to know what type of fun are you planning for you business. What I mean by this is how do you plan to liven up your business and draw in new consumers to purchase your services or products.

My business Summer fun will incorporate the following:

• Going Green with tools and equipment that I use
• Researching to find outsourcing contractors to help support the growth of my business
• Revamping business processes to streamline them

This is just a short list of regarding the things that I plan on doing. I’m so excited about having fun in the sun with my business. What are some of the things that you plan on doing to revamp your business? Please feel free to share.

Recently, I’ve been sharing about a new business tool on Twitter called Blellow.com which is a business social media website where you can connect, collaborate and communicate with other business people. Listen as the CEO, Mandi Leman shares about Blellow and how it can be very beneficial for business people.

Do you have a “Big Idea” business plan that you want to use to start a business? In 2009, have you decided that you want to start your own business? Then just take your idea and do it. Don’t wait any longer1

The way the economy is changing, you never know when a “Corporate America” job could end. So take you fear and get past it. Take your “Big Idea” and go with it. Below is a simple list of things to keep in mind when you are creating you “Big Idea” together.

1. Determine the need for a prototype
2. Own the process of developing the prototype
3. Show prototype
4. Build prototype
5. Sale prototype

Check out this video.