Starting out with an idea of how you can make a difference and who will pay to do it. But, it isn’t long before that idea gets confused.
At the same time the challenges of suddenly becoming responsible for all aspects of a business - strategy, tactics, execution, service, administration - blur our thinking. All of a sudden “management” isn’t something does for a salary - it’s a prerequisite of delivering your dream.
With too many marketers offering “best in class” business solutions you might be tempted to follow their lead. Buying a business software solution looks a relatively easy route to solving that “management” problem. After all, everybody else uses Sage, or QuickBooks, or one of a thousand other tools like MYOB Premier Accounting Software for making sure your idea works. They propose your business success is dependent on using software.
Starting out the last thing you need is a software package that costs you money and time to learn how to use it. Maybe you’ll need that stuff at some point, but that comes later. Right now you need a logical approach to solving our problem, and these packages aren’t designed for people with your problem. They’re designed to solve problems for established businesses - order processing, billing and accounting. Your problem is turning your dream into reality.
So starting out what you need most is a planning and review system. Make lists of companies and people you know (and can talk to), lists of things we’re going to do to get their attention and lists of things need to do for ourselves, so we can make the whole thing happen.
Albert Einstein explained to us insanity was “doing the same things over again and expecting different results”.
Reviewing the performance of plans, modifying them to accommodate what you’ve learned and using the plan to focus in on what works is the best way to turn those dreams into reality.
Accounting and CRM systems aren’t going to help. When starting up you need some mechanism for describing the relationships and how you’re going to use them and reviewing what works, and what doesn’t.
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