The celebration involved cake and tea the other day, as a small business owner spoke with us of her delight at maintaining a steady growth in her business. Confidence about the coming few months wasn’t quite as strong as the tea, but the controls implemented, during the last 9 months, could be as significant to the business as implementing control over not having that extra slice of cake on a cold day.
By adopting the attitudes of the big five banks, this particular business can give itself some credit.
3 Big Bank Ideas for Your Business
- Bankers have detailed and accurate knowledge of economic and market trends – Ensure that you have the same for your business; know it inside out.
- These Banks ensure they concentrate their customers and potential customers to only use them when sourcing products – Ensure that your customers only consider you as an option.
- Additional services provided, such as internet, phone banking or being allocated a bank manager are good ways of keeping customers updated, informed and enables issues to be resolved – Ensure you offer your customers a service standard you’d expect for yourself.
Banks aren’t the most efficient mechanism for distributing capital to small business any more; their inflexible model doesn’t have to be the way to shape your business, or direct your decisions, however, deciding to adapt some of their practices might profit your business growth.
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