Unravel Your Strings of Success
If you’ve ever been stuck on a problem in your online business and didn’t have a clue where to start, here’s a technique that may work for you. It’s called “unraveling the strings of success.” You’ll be able to visualize those strings as you see how it works.
1. Have you figured out the end result that you want? Maybe it is a giant subscription base, less support tickets, or a totally different website. For the sake of your business, how about saying expansive sales are your goal.
2. Using the expansive sales as the target you have set your sights on, ask the following question. “How will I accomplish getting more sales?” Your answer should be having a good system for following up with clients, getting noticed to attract more customers, and improved sales conversions.
3. Unravel one of the subjects you have just mentioned. For instance, if you want to increase prospective customer visits, what do you do to accomplish this? Better search engine words, more exposure for the website, and advertisements that will encourage the reader to click on your site.
4. Next take the subject and keep on unraveling it. “What do I need to do to add more links to my site?” A greater number of articles linking to the site, a greater number of blog posts, a greater number of directory links.
5. Now take one of those topics and keep repeating the process of unraveling it. “If I need more article links, what do I need?” Write more articles, hire others to write more, distribute them to a broader audience. Your answers can be broad or precise. The idea is to identify the factors that are stopping you.
A pattern is beginning to emerge. I can usually get a scrap of paper and go from one item to the next one – lengthening the string as it unravels. The point will come when your only conclusion will be that your call is for action. That is the starting point.
Unraveling is the easiest way there is to show you there may be a problem with your way of thinking or in the way you are handling the business end. Look at it this way, the longest strings are not getting the right amount of attention. The ones that are the shortest are the ones you can count on for results.
If something shows up in multiple strings, this could be an indication of a crossover in your system. It may be an unclear point for not only you, but your employees as well. It could be the way to finish one thing and lessen the length of a couple of strings.
When utilizing the unraveling method for your business, you are ready for the action phase at a much earlier date. In addition, you will have a map you can see of the process it takes to run your business.
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