BRX Pro Tip: 6 Important Things an Entrepreneur Should Work On Every Week
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, I’ve got a question and it’s as much for my personal benefit as it is for our Pro Tip listening audience. But how do you decide, like where are you going to put your energy, what you’re going to work on each week?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:19] Yeah. Energy and priorities are so important. And for some people, priorities should never be plural. It should always be priority. But these are six important things I think that a business leader or entrepreneur should be working on each week.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:34] Number one, the most important thing, and I think this is the priority, is revenue-generating activities. This is where you focus on building up your leads, your sales, your cash flow pipelines, making sure that all of those are full. That is, to me, the priority in all businesses, because without that, you’re not going to be able to serve many people and do much work anywhere.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:58] Secondly, I would invest some time each week in improving whatever your core product and services to better serve your current and future clients. You always want to be pushing the value line and improving on whatever it is you’re doing, and you have to be relentless about that because there’s people out in the market right now that are trying to find holes in your swing and try to penetrate your client base by serving them through those weaknesses you might have.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:26] Third, I think you have to invest some time in networking with your strategic partners. You have to stay in contact with your clients. You have to stay in contact with your referral partners. You have to stay in contact with your former clients because they could become your current clients if you keep doing that enough. So make sure that you’re investing time in these relationships with the people important to you.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:47] Four, I think you have to invest a little bit of time in long-term planning, looking ahead, investing some time in those future goals. Those are the key initiatives that are down the road. You got to move the ball a little bit in those things or they’ll never happen. I think it’s very important.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:04] I’m listing this fifth, but it probably deserves to be probably second, is investing time in your team and your culture. I mean, that is critical. If you want a team that is all aligned and is clear on what the mission is, you have to invest time in them.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:19] And lastly, and probably most importantly for your own health and well-being, is self-care. You have to sharpen the saw. As Stephen Covey says you have to invest in your health and make sure you’re eating right. You’re hydrated, you’re exercising, you’re clear-headed. You have to invest time in yourself if you want to grow your business.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:39] So, those are six important things that every entrepreneur should be doing every week.
