Your #1 Business New Year’s Resolution

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This article was updated on 11/5/2024 with the article entitled “It's Never Too Early to Make Good Business Resolutions for the Coming Year.”

Planning a new website? Committed to a weekly blog post or more active digital marketing? Whatever goals you have for your business in 2016, there is one key resolution every one of us should make – and keep.

A little slowdown during the holidays can give you time to think. Maybe you mulled over all the webinars you watched and all the articles you read during the past year. Some no doubt encouraged you to use new tools and techniques. Others scolded you for being out-of-date or out-of-touch. All probably fired you up with enthusiasm to try something new, something that promises to take your business to the next level.

Entrepreneurial passion is essential to growth, but consider making this your #1 Resolution for 2016:

Know why.

Too often we get swept up in the latest and greatest tips by well-respected gurus and find our hard work falls far short of the goals we imagined. Instead of trying to pin the blame afterward, thinking through the process beforehand is a much better use of our precious time.   

Know why:  You need a website.
 

• To fulfill online sales? Slow-loading pages, broken links and other issues mean lost revenue, so plan on a serious website investment.  

• To back up a professional reputation? A good-looking site with no moving parts may be all you need so you can allocate the rest of the marketing budget elsewhere.

Know why:  You need to blog.

• To build search-term-rich pages to boost your website’s SEO? Be sure to write posts that use the appropriate terms and take extra care with your headlines and paragraph structure.

• To build your reputation as an expert? Marketing your blog may take more effort than actually writing it.

Know why:  You need social media.

• To get news out quickly? If you have daily deals or events, you’ll want to constantly be where your audience is, whatever platform that may be.

• To stay top-of-mind? You may be more visible if you are interacting on other people’s social media accounts than simply broadcasting from your own.

While this is just a teensy taste of the many ways to make use of today’s marketing, it’s easy to see that you could wind up with some really rotten Return On Investment if you don’t know why you are going through the motions in the first place.

Hand-in-hand with the Know Why resolution has to be Measure. If you don’t measure the results of your efforts, you will never be sure whether or not you met your goal.

You’ll have a zillion other decisions to make this year and that can be exciting as well as overwhelming. As you sort through them all, keep this #1 Resolution in mind so when you’re looking back at 2016’s successes, you’ll know why. Here’s to building our best business partnerships ever! Call today to get started.
 

Kate GingoldKate Gingold

I have been writing a blog with web marketing tips and techniques every other week since 2003. In addition to blogging and client content writing, I write books and a blog on local history.

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