When your business starts to take off you need to have a strategy to deal with the growth. Many entrepreneurs start to get tied down with the technical work of the business rather than planning and controlling the growth of the company. When you create a business, you are creating a system that should be able to run without your input. You need to put systems in place so other people can take over the technical work while you grow your business.

So as you start to get more customers, remember to focus time on writing down the systems you use to deal with them. When you’ve designed that job, you give it to someone else and go to work on other aspects of your business. Imagine how much you could grow your business if you focused on marketing and finding customers all the time. This should be your first goal. Then as you grow more, you find other people to take care of this role as well.

Your final goal is to be able to sit on a beach in Hawaii sipping piña coladas while your business functions without you. The obvious dream of every business owner, but you have to work smarter than most to obtain this goal.

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