You meet any successful business owner and it's guaranteed they'll have the skillset of Getting Things Done. Here's how you can develop it
You're a rapid action taker, right? Certainly when it comes to tech work I bet. When someone has a problem you know you can solve, every fibre of your being wants to jump in and help... yes?
Question is... does that rapid action taking extend to doing things that grow your business?
Because the most successful MSPs I have ever met have one thing in common: They...
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This is a core skill any ambitious business owner needs. Without it, you're dead in the water. Luckily it's a skill that you learn rather than being born with it.
I was fortunate to learn it at the age of 19. I was a newspaper reporter on a tiny weekly newspaper back in the days where there was no website to update every four seconds. We had a whole week to pull a paper together... but the final final final "there genuinely is no more time available" deadline was 10pm Tuesdays.
I quickly learnt to get vast amounts of high quality work done, especially close to deadline. It's a valuable skill that I've relied upon for the 19 years I've been a business owner, following a super simplr process:
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Acquire an idea
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Decide it ticks a box
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Make it happen
The key, remember, is applying this to things that grow your business. Those are typically activities that:
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Get you more new clients
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Get your clients to choose to buy more from you
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Get your clients to choose to spend more when they buy
Those three areas... that's where the growth lies and where you need to take the most action.
