The New Year is almost upon us. As businessmen, it’s time to sit back and think about what the New Year can bring about for our business. Of course, it’s against our training and instinct as entrepreneurs to just meditate without action.
Thus, here are some tips you could think about as the New Year approaches. These tips could help you formulate what your actions should be at the start of the new chapter in your business.
Check Your Permits’ Expiry Dates
First and foremost, a new year will mean that your permits might need to be renewed soon. It doesn’t even have to be renewed exactly after the New Year – it might be a couple of months after, or quarter afterwards. The important thing is – you’ve brushed up your memory on when you need to renew your permits so you can keep your business operating with the government’s permission.
That’s also why it’s important to hire a bookkeeper, if you haven’t already, as these people can be charged with keeping track of whatever obligations you have to the government, like taxes and permits.
Make Year-End Reports
Reporting is the lifeline of any business. There’s so much information going in and out of the enterprise, that you couldn’t just rely on your memory to tell you what’s happening with your endeavor. Thus, it’s important to hire someone with the right skills to look over your information and compile reports for you to tell you how your business year went.
The importance of having year-end reports becomes apparent in the next tip.
Formulate New Marketing Campaigns
Marketing is but the bread-and-butter that makes up a business’ income. There can never be sales without marketing. You need to advertise, after all, to drive people to your store or anywhere you’re having your business, including online.
Thus, if you do your year-end reports, you can easily see which products are under-performing in terms of sales. With this information, you can get together with your partners (if you are a partnership or corporation), and decide on what marketing techniques you can employ to improve the sales of these poorly performing items on your inventory.
Sometimes, low sales is not a result of the product being nonviable entries into the market. Often times, they are just results of wrong marketing or, in some of these cases, not being marketed at all.
The New Year should always be treated as a new chapter in your business. As a new chapter, it is an opportunity to look back at your shortcoming as a business in the previous year and find ways to make up for those shortfalls. These three tips should help you out, together with others that you could find from other businessmen like yourself.
Happy New Year, and may the New Year bring more good things to yourself and your business.
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