On the journey to success, it can be easy to get stuck in thinking there’s a right way and a wrong way to grow your business. The truth is that there’s no one key to growth, the path is winding and fluid and it changes depending on your goals, technological developments, and cultural trends. Here are some ideas on how to keep your business growing and improving.
Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
When your product is your own creativity, it’s not uncommon to sometimes feel blocked. Keeping your creativity flowing is harder than people realize, and being creative for a living can sometimes make it even more difficult. When you’re feeling like you just can’t come up with anything but you’ve got clients waiting for their orders, check out this Huffington Post video on 29 ways to jump-start your creativity. Connect and Grow
Networking, networking, networking. We’ve said it before and we can’t say it enough. Networking is one of the most important parts of building and growing your business. This is probably the only strategy that consistently will get you results even as other growth hacks come and go. That’s why we wrote an article on how you can use digital networking to grow your business. Get it on Paper
Entrepreneurship is fluid, and as your business grows your products might evolve and change. However, getting your basic principles of your business and services on paper can help you stay focused and driven. While this article from Geektime focuses on writing a “statement of work” for development purposes, it can also help entrepreneurs at various stages figure out how to get their ideas onto paper in order to best pitch them to clients and investors. Go Visual
Sometimes there are concrete actions you can take in order to up your sales and drive business growth. One of the best ways that we’ve observed for businesses to increase their sales is to add one or more videos to their websites. Read all about why you should add a video to your site in our article here. How do you boost your business’ growth? Tell us in the comments!
