Marissa Mayer asks startups these three questions, but I think it is just as important for existing businesses to ask themselves the same.
1. Can you deliver?
2. Can you connect?
3. Can you grow?
Businesses , especially solopreneurs / freelancers, sometimes get caught in a cycle of delivering then connecting then growing. But rarely all three active at the same time. We ignore the need to find new clients because we are spinning all our plates working with the ones we have. Expanding is desperately needed but shunned because the hit to our overhead and calendar just can't take it.
We spend time tweaking and futzing over our products and services to deliver a perfect product rather than a shippable product. I am in no way ever saying to sell half-baked products. I'm suggesting that we can avoid the next two steps of connecting and growing by circling in the 'creating' cycle. We can't ship what we don't have. Blame is passed on down the line. +Seth Godin's "Poke The Box" comes to mind.
How much time do you spend creating things to sell? How easy is it to get your product / service into the hands of those that have a need? How can you continue to make more product and sell to more people without cloning yourself or hiring a gaggle of staff?
Taking time to answer, honestly, these three questions and begin to cull and streamline your process isn't just a luxury of startups – it's a necessity of existing business.
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Very good points, I think +Lynette Young, but in my experience it doesn't usually work just to try to do all three of these at the same time just by streamlining processes. As you say, the hit to calendar and overhead "just can't take it". It seems to me solo entrepreneurs or freelancers, if they want to grow, do need to start with delivery, working out reliable systems for that, then hire someone to do the delivery so they can focus on developing the systems for connecting, and eventually bring others in to do that, so that they can focus on growing (and the work of the entrepreneur). Unless you have deep pockets, the challenge of maintaining cash flow while doing this really means that it has to happen in reasonably small manageable steps. However hiring just one person almost doubles the size of the company, so it's not easy at all!
You're right, though – we can easily get caught up in "deliver", without getting to the next steps.
By the way, I'm not sure Marissa Mayer sees connecting the same as you or I… (as in the "…need to find new clients"). I think she's looking for integration of products into other people's systems and platforms.
Connecting takes technology.
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How are retail companies going to grow if they can't support consumers who want to pay with smartphones?
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Yes. . .Elana Mila . . . u have raised the most important three questions which are came out from your pregnant mind.
I wonder if that's the 21st century version of having the artisan, the saleswoman and the recruiter?
It would certainly explain why I've never been very successful; I'm only good at the first one 🙂
all minds are pregnant. many of the common sense ideas we have in approaching regular buisness models are activitys that simply happen naturaly. the gig is that alot of persons want to work as little as possible for the most amount of $