7 Top To-Dos To Launch Your Business Right NowPlanning is great and is absolutely essential for launching a successful business but if you wait forever to start you will see opportunity after opportunity go by in front of your eyes while you start planning over from the start again and again. You don’t have to have everything perfect and a bound, glossy 100 page business plan to start making progress and laying the foundation. Here are 7 things you can do right now in the next 2 hours to start laying the ground work for your business. 1. Set Up Your Social Media Accounts This means Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. You don’t have to have dazzling custom backgrounds yet, but you won’t get anywhere until you have pages set up for your business. 2. Blog If you don’t have one you can start a WordPress blog in about 2 minutes. Then post your first blog post telling everyone it what your business will do. 3. Write An Article Write an article that can be posted to Ezine Articles, Go Articles or Articles Base to enhance your credibility and establish you as an expert in your field. 4. Sign Up For Google+ Google+ promises to be an essential networking tool for all small businesses regardless of industry. If you can’t actually set it up yet, request an invite so that you can be one of the first on it when it is launched for the masses. 5. Subscribe Subscribe to at least one blog, YouTube channel or Ezine author for regular tips on how to grow and improve your business. 6. Email Send out an email to all of your contacts letting them know about your new upcoming venture and soon to be launched website to look out for. You may be surprised to find you already begin bringing in leads. 7. Advertise For A VA No matter how large or small you envision your business being you are going to need an assistant. You don’t even have to hire them yet if you don’t want to but at least post a job and start getting applicants. This will take about 2 minutes on outsourcing sites like oDesk. Leave a Reply |
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