To start a business is challenging. Attaining business success is even more challenging. But making that success long-lasting is perhaps the most challenging of all. Business success is not easy to achieve. That is why when it lands on our hand, we should do our best to maintain and enhance it.
Success in business may come in many forms. It can be business stability or an outstanding financial performance. An enterprise can also be considered successful if it receives praises from the community or it makes its employees and customers’ lives better. Here are some tips on how to make your business success long-lasting.
Plan your success
Establish the success you want to achieve on your heart and mind before it comes to reality. In other words, plan your success clearly. If you want to achieve long-lasting success in business, you’ve got to really intend to attain a lasting success. With that long-term success in mind, you must also be determined to execute the difficult steps and procedures to reach that long-term goal. Remember that the more permanent success you want to achieve, the tougher actions you need to accomplish.
You have to strengthen your business purpose, mission, vision, and core values. To have a long-lasting success, your business purpose should also be long-lasting.
Your vision should be great. It should see a business that helps a lot of people or even help the world. Your mission should be more challenging. It should compose of more challenging actions. Your core values should be righteous. They should be just, honorable and acceptable.
They all should collaborate to help you achieve a long-lasting success in business.
Complete your success
The kind of success that lasts longer is one that is more concentrated. Thus, if you are just starting your business, focus on achieving one kind of success first before you jump into striving to get other successes. Don’t expand your business if you haven’t achieved any kind of success yet. Don’t be easy to be lured by unexpected opportunities which are actually hidden distractions that may only ruin your original goal. In other words, you have to stick to your plan.
Diversifying your business investments may be a good move. However, diversifying is better if you have already succeeded on one investment that will serve as your mother investment. Trying to diversify your business at the early stage may only result to a diluted business. You may gain several successes, but those successes may not be big, concentrated, and long-term.
Hence, focus to achieve one particular success first that will serve as your mother success before you try to achieve more types of success or before you expand and diversify your business. For example, don’t open new stores or branches if you haven’t succeeded yet on your original store or branch.
Be persistent and don’t give up until you achieve your leading success.
Reproduce your success
Once you’ve got your first success, it’s time to multiply it. Use your tried-and-tested formula to success to repeat more successes. For example, if you have proven an effective management system to increase your business productivity, continue utilizing it. You may also further develop that system to use it in your other line of business or in your other business locations.
Your first success signals your succeeding successes. This can be the right time to expand or diversify your business. This may also be the right time to encourage more investors to invest more capital on your company. Hence, leverage your assets and potential resources to develop this success and let it bear new and succeeding successes.
Share your success
Share your blessings. A tree that bears good fruits and enjoyed by many can hardly be cut down. If your business enjoys success and that success also benefits your consumers, employees and the community, the world will always want your success to last long.
Don’t just claim all the credits to yourself, but be grateful to everyone who contributes to your success. Remember that you owe your sales or revenues to your customers and your productivity to your workers.
When you share success (i.e., money, honor, etc.,) to your team or workers, they become happier, more motivated and more productive. They become loyal and more inspired to help you maintain and boost the success you have on your business.
When you share your business success to your customers, they feel more valued and special. They also build trust and confidence in doing more business to you.
When you share success to the society, it inspires a lot of people. It gives your business and brand a good name and reputation.
Hence, don’t forget to stay humble, just and kind-hearted.
Conclusion
Business success starts from the time you thought of it. Thus, if you have established a great kind of success on your mind and made it a plan, there is a better chance that your success will be long-lasting. Remember that success is a result. It is a result of careful planning, execution, completion, and reproduction. So make them all work together.
Victorino Q. Abrugar is a marketing strategist and business consultant from Tacloban City, Philippines. Vic has been in the online marketing industry for more than 7 years, practicing problogging, web development, content marketing, SEO, social media marketing, and consulting.
All your tips were very true. If we wanted to be successful in any kind of business we must plan everything before making a single step. But we need to act as soon as possible because everyday is another day of opportunity ahead.
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thanks.
I just remember this saying, though I forgot its author. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”.
That’s a great quote. Thank you for sharing.
It is true. In business you may succeed at first but what is challenging is making your success last longer. Everything you do should be planned and all plans should happen . Be smart with your actions and be fast.
Jessica Miller