The way we as a society do business with each other has changed a lot in the past five to ten years. It seems like every other week there’s a new business “hack” or trend being shown on Instagram and other social media sites. People see others making hundreds of thousands of dollars in sometimes a week or a day, and they instantly jump on that trend or believe the “hack”. The truth of the matter is that there are no hacks. These people work hard to find trends and spend a lot of time and money on perfecting them. For that reason, in this article we will be listing and discussing ten of the best business hacks of 2018 as given by Ismail Sirdah.
There are two different categories we will talk about and the list below. The first one will be productivity hacks, and the second will be actual business hacks to grow the business’ income and customers, as given by Ismail Sirdah.
5 Productivity Hacks
- Schedule blocks of time for certain daily tasks
- Measure and monitor every piece of data
- Pre-Schedule your social media posts
- Delegate as much as possible
- Collaborate as much as possible on projects
5 Business Hacks
- Create affiliate and customer rewards programs
- Bring on partners and create partnerships
- Keep a customer relations management (CRM) software
- Create a well-thought-out business plan
- Use artificial intelligence to your advantage
Combine Hacks
If you combine the productivity hacks with the business hacks listed, your business will grow for sure and you will have more control in its day-to-day operations. Scheduling blocks of time to do different tasks like administration or cold-calling will keep you on track and you will know what you have to do at every moment throughout your workday. Measuring and monitoring what happens in your business is a great way to keep an eye on any changes and will increase productivity because you will be able to tweak certain aspects that are not working. Maybe you’ve ran the same campaign every week for two months with only two customers, maybe it’s time to get productive and cut it off.
Delegate
Delegating as much as possible will remove you from working IN the business and will let you work ON the business. The same goes for collaborating as much as possible on certain projects, which can also mean finding new partners and creating partnerships or joint ventures to increase productivity and join economic and intellectual forces. Creating affiliate programs and customer rewards programs will bring in new customers from third party sources as well as from word of mouth and existing customers who will want to earn a commission from bring new customers to your business. If you want to seek private money to grow the business you will need a business plan, and artificial intelligence will help you find solutions where a human brain is incapable.
In conclusion, in this article we briefly discussed ten of the best business hacks of 2018 with an emphasis on productivity and growth. Combining the five hacks of productivity and the five hacks of business growth will allow you to create a strong business that you can scale and possibly sell in the future. There are hundreds of other hacks like using sticky notes to write your to-do lists because they “make the tasks seem smaller,” but we gave the list of the most important to save you time.