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101 New Years Business Resolutions

Posted in: Bootstrapping Extras

It’s the time of year where everyone wants to make their resolutions to lose weight, quit smoking or some other stop some other random bad habit they have. Why don’t more people make resolutions for their business in the new year? Some might call them goals, I even wrote a post about great goals in 2008 but I am referring to resolutions in this article.

A resolution is, by definition:

1: the act or process of resolving: as a: the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones b: the act of answering : solving c: the act of determining d: the passing of a voice part from a dissonant to a consonant tone or the progression of a chord from dissonance to consonance

Below are 101 New Years Business Resolutions you can adopt for your business to ensure that you make the most out of your business in 2008. Why are they resolutions and not goals? All 101 resolutions in this list will solve a problem in your business (lack of money, lack of time, lack of promotion, ect).

  1. Increase revenue by 10% each month
  2. Create 1 guerrilla marketing campaign each month
  3. Follow up with clients once per month
  4. Network with other companies in my niche
  5. Network with companies that compliment my niche (ie: web design / web hosting)
  6. Give 5 free consultations
  7. Create 1 viral marketing campaign each month
  8. Build testimonials list for future clients to read
  9. Create out-of-the-box ideas/designs for business cards
  10. Appear larger on a smaller budget
  11. Start saving pennies for a full year and spend the money on your business
  12. Decrease hours worked each day while increasing profits
  13. Attend at least 5 seminars or expo’s related to your niche
  14. Adjust pricing for your products
  15. Build a new product to add in to your current package
  16. Add a new service to your current list of services you offer clients
  17. Create 6 new contests as a marketing strategy
  18. Register your company name
  19. Write a book or guide for people in your niche
  20. Donate at least 10% of your profits each month to charity
  21. Get your company featured in local newspapers
  22. Get your company featured on the local news television shows
  23. Start a fusion marketing group (more on fusion marketing in a future article)
  24. Create a subscriber/mailing list of 10,000 people by December 2008
  25. Bloggers: Get 1,000 new RSS Subscribers each month
  26. Add a sales team to sell for you
  27. Hold 1-2 demonstrations for your service/product
  28. Generate more word-of-mouth advertising
  29. Bloggers: Guest Post on 2 blogs each month
  30. Get your website to the top 5 results for a new keyword each month
  31. Create a form of passive income
  32. Double your client list
  33. Find one extra client each month (ie: Jan - 6 clients, Feb - 7 clients, March - 8 clients)
  34. Invest 10% of profits to growing your business
  35. Invest 10% of profits for new equipment
  36. Cut advertising costs by 25%
  37. Go Green!
  38. Bloggers: Become one of the top 100 make money online blogs
  39. Bloggers: Get your blog featured on 5 of the top 100 make money online blogs
  40. Be more friendly to the “not-so-nice” clients; even when it hurts your pride.
  41. Become more reliable
  42. Take as many risks as possible without letting yourself say no; even if you think its a crazy idea!
  43. Think outside the box with advertising
  44. Study your competition and find their weaknesses; capitalize on them
  45. Have each of your friends generate 1 sale for you
  46. Promote your product in 5 different states
  47. Open a store for your product/service 1 other state
  48. Benefit from local resources
  49. Bloggers: Update your blog design at least once this year
  50. Read 1 business related book each month
  51. Participate in at least 2-3 discussions on message boards each month
  52. Check emails less and close IM’s when working online
  53. Reorganize your office space
  54. Increase the response rate in your customer service team (or yourself)
  55. Track the time you work better. (we recommend: slim timer)
  56. Trust your gut feeling more
  57. Bloggers: Mind map blog ideas for every day in 2008 (365 ideas won’t be hard with this method)
  58. Sponsor an event in your community to clean up parks or recreation centers
  59. Enter local business awards
  60. Enter blogging awards
  61. Enter web design awards or submit to CSS Galleries
  62. Take a vacation (even if you sit at home for a week not working, it’s still good for business because if you don’t, you’ll burn out).
  63. Hire 5 college students for various jobs (sales, customer service, cleaning, ect)
  64. Invest money in each month to a new business you see becoming highly successful
  65. Create all new promotional material (business cards, flyers, posters, bumper stickers, ect)
  66. Spend more time with family and less time working on the weekends
  67. Bloggers: Start 1 new blog every three months to build your network
  68. Bloggers: Add different forms of revenue to your blogs
  69. Allow affiliates to promote your products and services
  70. Bloggers: Add 1 article daily, Monday-Friday and have auto posts setup for Saturday-Sunday.
  71. Buy larger office space due to your company growing too big for the current office
  72. Set up your own business expo for local businesses
  73. Build website dedicated to your local business entrepreneurs (ie: yourstateentrepreneurs.com)
  74. Be more consistent with daily work habits
  75. Convert at least 10% of all cold-calls into sales each month
  76. Increase website traffic by 10% each month
  77. Increase pageviews for your website by 2 pages (1 page view per person - 3 page views per person)
  78. Increase the time users spend on your website by 2 minutes
  79. Find 10 unique ways to sell your product or affiliate sale in less then 2 minutes on your website
  80. Double your search engine traffic every 3 months
  81. If you haven’t already; submit a press release
  82. Build or outsource 1 link bait survey/article each month
  83. Get your entire staff (even if it is only yourself) healthier because healthier workers are happier and easier to be around :)
  84. Earn enough money in 2008 that you can take an entire year off and travel
  85. Build your passive income enough so in 2009 you can travel and still make money
  86. Diversify your income streams on and offline
  87. Bloggers: Aim at making $500.00 per month from Private Ad sales
  88. Study the power of social media marketing and create 4 campaigns to run in 2008 on social media sites
  89. Subscribe to 5 magazines that relate to your niche and study successful businesses inside them
  90. Dare to be different; find what your niche is missing and fill in the gap
  91. Find 5 ways to brand your company (or yourself if you freelance or bootstrap your own business)
  92. Offer holiday sales for the major three holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years)
  93. Hire a PR team to give you an added boost of exposure
  94. Bloggers: Hire front-page digg pushers to get your articles to the front page of digg.
  95. Create a trend. John Chow and Shoemoney had their blogs redesigned and now EVERYONE wants the three box look.
  96. Give 10% earnings for one month to a children’s college fund. Someone in your family, or a random child at a local school
  97. De-clutter your entire business inside and out
  98. Downsize your staff if profits aren’t as great as they should be
  99. If downsizing your staff isn’t an option, then find 10 ways to downsize your expenses
  100. Re-negotiate with all affiliate companies you promote for better rates
  101. RETIRE! Hey, if it’s that time in your life, sell the business off and spend the rest of your life doing nothing :)

 

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