Setting Goals for Your Business the SMART way!

I must admit that I have not always been the person to set goals for my business. In fact, although I have multiple businesses, I just really just went along with the flow. If we made money, great, if not, I wasn’t happy, but it still didn’t strike me that it was something I could do about it. That was not until I started following other business owners that were making way more money than me and they credited their main reason for success as setting goals regularly.

I began to ask myself questions such as how do I know if my business is growing? What are some things I can do differently to make sure that my business is growing and for it to start bringing in more profits?

So I have decided, that in order for me to be more successful in 2019 that I need to start setting goals for my business. However, I know that setting goals that are not SMART goals are a waste of time. So what are SMART goals?

SMART goals are goals that are:

For example, instead of just saying I want to make more money in 2019. I would say: I want to make $10,000 for at least 5 months of the year. I would like to have my first 5-figure month by March 31, 2019.

Now some may say is this realistic, for your business it might not be realistic, but for mine, it is because I have actually had months where I have made over $7,000 and a couple of months where I have made over $9,000 but did not hit the 5 figure threshold. 

Want to join me? Ask yourself the questions below:

• Do you set goals for your business?
• How Often? Do you set weekly goals, daily goals, monthly goals?
• What are your goals geared toward?: sales, projects, products, social media, etc.
• Do you have goals for each of the different business areas? (Sales, products, social media, etc. )

If you are ready to set goals, get ready to join me in my 19 Goals for 2K19 Challenge. Check back later for updates and guidelines!

If you have not joined my facebook group Da Academy, then you definitely need to do so now, so that you can join us on these December challenges so that we can grow our businesses together and enter 2019 with a bang!!