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First 2 Rules of Working on Your Business

There is a sense in which being self employed or owning your own business can be more challenging than being employed. A self employed person who looks at the business as a place to work in will in most cases find that the business is like a wheelbarrow which only moves whenever she pushes it. At the beginning the business provides great goods or services to clients but as sales and clients grow quality begins to decline, timelines get missed and clients either grumble or vote with their pockets and opt to spend elsewhere. You need to realise that your business is not your life. The purpose of a business is to serve the life of its owner(s). If you are caught up in the rut of working in your business and things are not moving very well you will need to change tact and start to work on your business instead. In the following portion of this article we discuss the first two rules for working on a business. 1. The business should provide consistent value to clients, employees, suppli