Building Your Money Making Checklists

Have you ever wondered how a bunch of 16 and 17 year old kids can basically run a million dollar enterprise? Just think McDonald’s.

And no offense to McDonald’s employees but some of them aren’t necessarily the brightest crayons in the box, know what I mean?

So how is it that these kids do what most people can’t?

They have a system. In fact, they have many systems.

There is a procedure in place for absolutely everything.

Although I never worked at a fast food restaurant, my job in high school was broken down into checklists. In the morning, when I went to work, the first thing I had to do was clean up from the night before.  There was a two page checklist and an order that I was to do everything in so I simply followed my directions and nothing was every forgotten and a good job was done every time.

I eventually memorized the entire thing but got it out every morning just to be sure I did everything.   Since I had a checklist to follow, I knew that there was no excuse for forgetting to do anything so I always double checked.

Systems. Procedures. Checklists.

These are all critical for successful businesses.

I was recently going through my business and even though me sending email generally results in me making more money, I wasn’t sending emails very often. In fact, I wasn’t even sending them once a month. If I felt like writing an email, I would. Otherwise, I wouldn’t send out an email to any of my lists.

So I started to make checklists of things that need to be done every work day for myself and eventually for my team as well. Now writing an email and sending it to my list is on there. I don’t send a promotion every day and since I have a lot of different lists, the same people aren’t be contacted each and every day, but the results of have been undeniable. I’m making quite a bit more money every month.

Whether your have an office full of people or you’re a solo operator working from home, making your own checklists will be immensely helpful to you. Figure out what daily actions need to be done to make more money in your business, put them on a checklist, and go do them. If you don’t know what are the best actions to take, then just make your best guess and do those things. If you see results, keep them on the checklist. If they don’t help your business, ten take them off the checklist and add something different.

Get out there and develop your business building system and you’ll have a successful business in no time.