Stop Taking Notes, Start Taking Orders

You attended a seminar at a recent trade show, and now you’re ready to take action.

Now comes the hard part — putting the information to work.

Review your notes, browse through the handout, and devise a plan to sell to clients, purge your records, install and manage new software, or master whatever else you learned at the hour-long event.

The bottom line is to turn what you learned into a productive system. That’s what will separate you from other gift basket retailers, making your workload smoother and easier and generating orders that seem to magically appear because you’ve taken care of the small details.

Last month, before the trade show season began, I listened to an online seminar that discussed how to create a success blueprint by placing Post-it notes on a wall to document each of my projects. The idea seemed so simple that I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it on my own.

I now have three projects mapped out in step-by-step format. Seeing this visual blueprint every day in my office has taken these ideas from “wish I could” to “I’m getting it done.” You have the same potential after attending a seminar.

This is not an economy where you can delay working on any part of business. The newspaper is filled with stories about layoffs and business closings. You did not enter the industry to become a casualty. Make your new-found knowledge generate dollars and sense today.

If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels, next week I’ll introduce you to the Golden Basket Club so that you experience giant leaps rather than small or no gains.