small business owners' Do's & Don'ts

1/6/2020

Celebrate small wins
Make sure to celebrate when good things happen. Praise your staff when performance is outstanding and share this with your team. Acknowledgment is powerful and praise is a productivity booster. Pat yourself on the back when you score a win. If you don’t, what are you doing this for? And that brings me to the next point….
Don’t dwell on the negatives
Running a business has its ups and downs. Don’t sulk on your losses. Get back on the horse and move forward. Everyone makes mistakes and not every sales pitch converts into a signed contract. Make sure you reflect on your failures and learn from them. One great thing about failures is that there is a lesson attached to each of them. Learn that lesson and don’t make the same mistake twice. As a great author, Richard Carlson, once said: DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. AND ITS ALL SMALL STUFF!
Be kind
Kindness truly goes a long way. And karma's a bitch. Haha just kidding, well not really. When you are kind to people it resonates and is contagious. People pay it forward naturally and it can often make someone’s day. Being kind can even manipulate your hormones and your physiology is positively affected. Even Gary V is promoting kindness! There is no downside to being kind so try it today and be randomly kind to someone.

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Desirae Haluk is passionate about marketing for startups and small businesses. For the last 15 years she has held marketing executive positions for organizations both large and small. She realizes that her true passion is helping establish, grow and evolve startups and small businesses to make them successful and help achieve their goals.