The "Paint-By-Number" of Building Your Business

Everything has a start…and everything has a finish.  And sandwiched in between is a process.  When Going from start-up (start) to the first million (finish) it’s the process in between that determines the speed and accuracy.  Of course having the right process helps.  Building a business is a series of steps, flying an airplane…a series of steps, proficiency at a musical instrument, baking a cake and building a community…you guessed it…a series of steps.  No wonder why paint-by-number always looked exactly like what the cover of the box looked like? Following a known process gets me to a predictable result.

When I get in the car and drive from LA to San Francisco, I follow a map–a visual process.  If I were to get in and just drive, I might make it eventually, but not without some real wasted energy.  Those map guys are awesome for having laid out the process for getting from anywhere to anywhere.

Now hear this:  Building a business is a process

I love to use real world –LA World– examples.  Yves Vacherres of Club Gourmet

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is following a process to take his high-end home gourmet delivery service to people who want it at their door, healthy and convenient.  He figured out who he wanted to serve, mapped out how they make decisions, built his uniqueness on what would make them jump up and down, figured out how to communicate with them and roped them in…willingly.  Notice he didn’t do the reverse and build his business around what he wanted.

Every time that I’ve looked back and asked why I haven’t gotten the end result that I wanted, I found that I sidestepped the process.  I skirted around an important or small component.  I let my lack of patience get in the way.

Your business should have a process mapped out from where you are to where you want to be.  This is your map, your paint by number.

Building and following a process also requires time to step out of your business and work on

your business.  It requres planning, review, course correction and reflection.  This is also one of the steps in the process.

Would you build a home without a blueprint? Why would you build a business without one.

And just to show you how serious I am, click the linke below for the seven-secrets-to-turning-your-life and business-around.

Even building the life you want is a process!