• Caffeine-up
• Follow up with customers
• Analyze website traffic
• Move forward on strategy for growing customer base
• Tweak strategy for growing customer base
• Manage accounting activity
• Re-caffeinate
• Gain inspiration from a teammate (or the StartupNation community)
• Analyze sales
• Walk the dog (home-based businesses only)
• Shipping & receiving activity
• Interface with customers (all day long – pre-empting all other tasks)
• Realize that you forgot to eat lunch (but don’t do anything about it)
• Update some software
• Be wildly creative
• Grab a piece of fruit & eat ½ of it before losing attention to more important things
• Dance the jig because you just landed a big customer
• Fix the toilet
• Write a blog or update your website or record a podcast
• Read a blog, research competitive websites, listen to a podcast
• Be surprised when someone tells you about a world event that happened 2 weeks ago that you never heard about (Berlin Wall falling or hurricane hitting New Orleans kind of thing)
• Exercise to clear your head & think about new product/service ideas the whole time
• Write down the new outrageously great ideas while dripping sweat on the pad of paper
• Work another 4 hours doing everything listed above over again
• Fall exhausted into your chair, remembering that you forgot to eat dinner as you fall asleep with a HUGE smile on your face because you’re pursuing your dream life
Productization of Services: 6 Tips, Best Practices and Examples
Transforming one-off services into proper products that you can brand, market and sell to clients can transform your business. That makes it sound simple, but the reality is quite different. The whole process can be...
