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There are many different ways to ensure that your company remains stable for many years to come. After all, stability is one of the most important things to think about. Job security is always going to be a major concern for your employees and no one wants to suffer the fate of a company that can’t survive past its startup stages. In order to make a big impact and grow your business, it’s going to take a lot of big changes and mentality shifts in your business workflow.
To help facilitate your business growth, we’ve put together a list of sweeping company changes that are guaranteed to help you make an impact.
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Realigning Your Workforce
It’s not just important to hire the right people, but also to realign your workforce so that your employees are capable of more than what they were hired for. When you’re a humble startup you probably aren’t making the most out of your employees for one simple reason; you’re not sure what roles you even need in your business. When there are just a dozen people working for you, you’re fully capable of being their manager.
In order to make a big impact and grow your business, it’s going to take a lot of big changes and mentality shifts in your business workflow.
Tweet ThisHowever, when that number triples or even quadruples, you’ll need to train some employees with leadership training courses to help them become managers and not just employees. Shifting roles around is important, so make sure you focus on it as a primary concern when growing your business.
Building a Customer Profile
As a startup, your customer profile is probably nothing like the actual audience you’re drawing in. This is natural because as you first start up your business, it’s unclear what type of customers you’ll actually be attracting. Your concept of the ideal customer is probably entirely different from what it was when you first drew up plans for your business idea, so it’s never a bad idea to refresh your idea of the ideal customer and build a new profile for them. Focus on the type of audience you’re appealing to by using your experience and knowledge. Once you’ve developed a new customer profile, you’ll have a much easier time drawing new customers and spreading your brand.
“A good business needs to start as a functional, basic idea. Let’s say you want to start a baked goods company. First, you should be able to make, package, and ship a great cookie. If you can create a cookie which could, theoretically, sustain your business indefinitely, then your idea is a good one. From the cookie foundation, you can build into other baked goods, expanding your business model. But you’ve started from a solid platform. Many businesses do not start from a sustainable mode, and it’s challenging for them to grow from that point.” – Is Starting a Business Right for Me?
Diversify or Specialize
The main fork in the road for every startup that wants to upgrade its business is whether to diversify its products or specialize. Diversification usually goes the route of appealing to as many people as possible and growing your company to a point that it’s instantly recognizable to people all over the world. Specialization usually involves making your brand recognizable within your industry and becoming a first choice among people with specific needs.
A good example of this would be Amazon versus Apple. While they’re both widely successful companies, Amazon caters to a wider audience, but Apple is a household name that people think of when talking about tech such as smartphones, tablets, and computers. What you choose to do ultimately depends on the type of company you want to make, but it’s important to start thinking about which path you want to take so you can start investing resources into one or the other.
