Your Admin Now

Small businesses hold a special place in my heart. If it wasn’t for my business administration experience in different industries, I wouldn’t have understood exactly what it takes to build a well-developed business. 

My personal experience working for small businesses was definitely a learning one. I developed many different skills that I am so grateful for now because it’s lead me to this very moment. But one thing that I learned quickly was: a business is only as successful as it’s developed to be. Let me explain… 

You may experience tremendous success in sales and growth is consistent, but did you prepare for this? You may be successful at bringing in revenue, but how long will that success last if the back end of your business is a mess?  

Now, I’m not saying there’s no chance at organizing your business as you grow; I believe it’s never too late to consider organizing your business development. But consider looking back years from now and having accurate representation of how much your business has developed and grown over time.  

I’ve seen it before and I’ve noticed it even more now, small business owners may go into business with the right service or product to sell, but as much as we’d like to go with the flow, eventually business management isn’t so manageable anymore.  

Business management plays the biggest part of growing a successful business, in my opinion. A lot of people like to lead with the quality of their product or service, or how effective their marketing and promotions are, not keeping in mind that their business practices fall behind when not developed properly.  

As business owners, we take pride in the product or service that we provide. It’s why we started our business in the first place; because we believe that we have something worth selling. Once we begin selling our product or service, and we begin to grow, we understand that there’s a lot more to it than we may have thought. 

Ask yourself, if you have a quality product, and your selling game is top notch, but you’re struggling behind the scenes, how far can you actually go with that growth?  

This is how we end up with bigger businesses that didn’t prepare themselves for growth and expect employees to adapt to “fast pace environments.”  

Personally, I admire businesses that experience growth so quickly to the point where they don’t know how to handle it. It’s not a horrible problem to have. But we also fall into a pit of priorities that aren’t that much of a priority because we now have higher priorities.  

So, how do we avoid a scattered mess of our business’ growth process?  

We think ahead to what could go wrong.  

I understand most of us small business owners go into business not having all our hats in order. Some of us have to purchase the missing hats in order to develop a properly built business (learn as we go).

But how do we prepare for growth? Exactly what business processes should we implement as solopreneurs preparing for growth? What do we really need to present ourselves as a professional business? 

As part of my goal to help new business owners begin their journey, I’m developing a business guide to help you understand these questions and why it’s so important to prepare for the future your business endeavor from the beginning. Your Business Now will be an administration guide for small businesses, so, even if you’re already established, you’ll find valuable information to start organizing your business systems and practices from whatever phase your business may be at now.  

During the next few weeks, I’ll be posting summaries of each section of the guide. These summaries may come in the form of an article, like this one, or videos or picture content via my social media channels. Make sure you follow me on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to stay updated. I want to make sure that, if you purchase this guide to help you in your business, you also know what you’re getting yourself into.  

We may not be 100% prepared for wherever our new business takes us, but I’d say preparing a good 50-85% of it makes it work best in our favor when we do take off. At the same time, it’s never too late to prepare for more growth.  

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