{"id":828,"date":"2012-09-18T06:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-09-17T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T11:26:36","slug":"to-whine-or-not-to-wine-you-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/to-whine-or-not-to-wine-you-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"To Whine or not to Wine?  You Decide."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not working ON your business at least 5 hours a week, then maybe on your way home tonight you will want to pick up some cheese and crackers so when you \u201cwhine\u201d you won\u2019t be doing it on an empty stomach.\u00a0 In Michael Gerber\u2019s <a title=\"The Emyth Mastery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mn\/search\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=emyth%20mastery&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;sprefix=emyt%2Caps%2C825&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20&amp;url=search-alias%3Daps\" target=\"_blank\">The E-Myth Mastery<\/a> as entrepreneurs, we are reminded to work <strong>ON<\/strong> our business and not <strong>IN<\/strong> our business.\u00a0 In reality, the business owner with less than 15 employees will often not have the luxury to spend all her time ON the business.\u00a0 Here are some questions to start your thinking beyond the day to day work:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 When will you spend <strong>3 hours planning weekly<\/strong>? Is it scheduled?<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 What can you <strong>do this week<\/strong> to create a better tomorrow?\u00a0 (write it down)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 What <strong>core competencies do your employees possess<\/strong> which can be leveraged to affect sales growth? (write them down)<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 What is the <strong>number one bottleneck<\/strong> in your business that is <strong>holding back growth of sales, profit or both<\/strong>? (Document these)<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 If you had to price everything your employees and you do on an invoice for your customer, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>how many of these items would your customer recognize as value-added<\/strong>?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These questions are key to helping create a sellable business that will thrive &#8211; with or without you.\u00a0 Carving out some time each week to plan and reflect will lead to a better tomorrow and maybe a celebration with wine and not whine.<\/p>\n<p>How is your business doing?\u00a0\u00a0 Knowing where your business is right now, will help you concentrate your efforts on your future &#8211; get your Sellability Score.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellabilityscore.com\/changing-lanes\/linda-fayerweather\" target=\"_blank\">ScoreCard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not working ON your business at least 5 hours a week, then maybe on your way home tonight you will want to pick up some cheese and crackers so when you \u201cwhine\u201d you won\u2019t be doing it on an empty stomach.\u00a0 In Michael Gerber\u2019s The E-Myth Mastery as entrepreneurs, we are reminded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-business-planning","category-customer-service-culture","category-planning-for-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}