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Are You Strangling Your Business?

May 6, 2013Business Owner, Customer Service, Systems, Teams, Time ManagementBy Nathan McDonald
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What belt am I in business?

TIME TO START

Please answer the questions on the 8 key areas of business. Marketing, Sales, Customer Service & Operations, Finance and Admin, Time Management, Systems and Team.

 

We will show you what belt you are in business! When you’ve finished tick the box to arrange a no obligations session with a business instructor and find out how we can help you reach your black belt.

Business Owner

  • Never
  • Rare Occasion
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Do you have quarterly, monthly or weekly goals that you religiously follow and achieve?
  • Never
  • Rare Occasion
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Do you read or listen to business education books during the week?
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Do you have a personal health regime happening for yourself as the business owner?
  • Never
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  • More than 71 hours a week.
  • Between 51 and 70
  • Between 31 & 50
  • Between 11 & 30
  • Less than 10
How many hours a week do you work in your business, including weekends and evenings?
  • More than 71 hours a week.
  • Between 51 and 70
  • Between 31 & 50
  • Between 11 & 30
  • Less than 10
     

Marketing

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Does all of your marketing implemented, constantly bring you in more leads then you can handle?
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Have you got a marketing plan that is followed on a week to week basis?
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Is your branding consistent on all messages that go out from your business?
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Sales

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Have you got a database of clients and prospects and do you have a system to regularly contact your leads and clients?
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Is every one of your leads being tracked or noted somewhere for future follow up?
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Do you have a sales process in place and is it followed every time and monitored for results?
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Do you communicate constantly to your current and prospective clients at least monthly?
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Operations

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Does delivering your product and/or service happen smoothly with no bottlenecks and on time?
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Would you rate your customer service as always high?
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Do you have strategies in place to keep bringing customers back to purchase more products or services?
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Do you send out customer surveys and obtain feedback from your customers ?
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Finance and Admin (1 of 2)

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I have enough money in the business bank that even if I didn't get any sales for the next year I would still be cash flow positive.
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Do you know your CASH breakevens in both your business and personally?
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Do you know what your current maximum earning capacity is for your business?
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Do you have a budget that you review at least every 2 weeks and make adjustments accordingly throughout the month?
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Do you review all your KPI's to help grow your business and make decisions based on the results of the KPI's?
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Finance and Admin (2 of 2)

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Do you have a great accountant that constantly advises you and is proactive in your business?
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I review all my business financial reports at the end of the month.
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All my paperwork is organised and I can easily put my hands on everything if needed.
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Team (1 of 2)

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  • Every Now and Then
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  • Most of the time
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I could leave the business right now for a 6 month holiday and my team would be able to manage the business and still sustain a positive cash flow and growth on the business.
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  • Every Now and Then
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My team work extremely well together and have no team challenges to deal with.
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I do ongoing team coaching or my managers have regular monthly team coaching sessions with the team.
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  • Every Now and Then
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All my training systems for new team members are setup and I do not need to be involved much when a new team members comes in.
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I trust all my team implicitly and do not have to chase, hound or follow up to ensure work is being done correctly.
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Team (2 of 2)

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Does your entire team know the goals for the business and are they onboard with achieving these goals?
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All my team members have job roles, contracts and team manuals that they have read and adhere to.
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Systems

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All my systems are written down and/or video taped for the entire business.
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The systems are checked on a regular basis for improvements.
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The business has computer systems in place to manage all the relevant data for everything that happens in the business.
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If on the unlikely occurrence that something drastic happened in my business and I lost all of my data, I have the ability to easily get the information back.
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There are checks and balances in place for all of my major operational activities to ensure the systems are working.
  • Never
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Company Information

Congratulations for completing the online Black Belt Business Questionnaire.

Based on your answers you would hold the rank of

Your results will be emailed to you and looking forward to touching base soon.

Would you like to find out more on how to improve your business and how simple it really is to increase your cash or increase your free time
 

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