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The fundamentals of small business management

I read in my business career, more than 10,000 different items and lists on how anyone can succeed with a small business that is an independent company or a franchise. Many consultants well intentioned and intelligent I think I find a great business idea with a marketing system and strong will can make any top success. Spoil yourself and say the following person throwing these stupid things are absolutely wrong!

The success or failure of the vast majority of small businesses has little to do with the desire, the marketing scheme, or the great idea that created the company. Although these three elements must be present in all successful businesses, good key management principles to allow a small business grow and succeed. All successful companies, whether small, medium and large companies, all using the same management directors. The size of the company identify key people and the sophistication of this principle. For example, a small company normally informal and perhaps even hiring guidelines unwritten. A medium sized company has a full legalization of manual workers with ways of recruiting employees in a separate section. Much global company has an entire department employees wrote several books in different languages with the employee recruitment guidelines based on issues legal and social issues in each country. However, the main management of common sense that all companies must have a fair, consistent and employment program for the application to be used by all companies.

As I spent most of my career with small and medium enterprises, here is a simple select and management principles that all SMEs should follow to ensure success and profitability:

A the accounting department with the good weather of monthly financial statements for the basis of all management decisions. Any business owner or officer believes that only his "gut" feeling, which will be running a commercial failure. Regardless of the size of the company, each owner and Chief Executive Officer must have valid data to confirm the decisions of his "gut" tells them to do. Your financial statements are a record of the facts your company history and we should all clearly understand our history to avoid repeating past mistakes. How can you determine if your campaign with the latest campaign has been less successful in doing and evaluating financial performance? We've all heard stories about the campaign marketing which led to many new customers the company, but killed the company because advertising spending has been higher The profit margin on sales of new. An entrepreneur does not need a degree in accounting, but we know enough to understand and participate in the review of financial information.

Running a small business based on the cash control account business management is also a violation of this principle and seriously hamper the growth and success of the company. Unless you want to be a mom "and of pop "business forever, the accounting information is a requirement of good.

Standardize and automate all routine functions. Have you ever noticed that people of the most successful business have a routine for most functions Daily? They have staff meetings at the same time, they want all reports in a specific format, they want all PCs and software are the same in the office and you want the external phone calls to respond with a specific message. By standardizing all the routine functions, successful entrepreneurs did not suggest or manage these functions. They can focus their time and efforts in managing non-routine situations.

This same principle applies to your business. I personally know a company that 10 years ago, had a credit facility with 15 employees and three managers who made many decisions every day. Today, the company has doubled its sales and now has a credit bureau consisting of five employees, a director and a set of software that manages electronic payments, and even sends out reminder letters and emails to customers.

Examine and analyze the balance before the statement of profit and loss. Monthly P & L of your words If you pass the last month of its operations, but his record tells you what shape your business and what you can do in the future. I saw a company that has doubled sales one year and closed its doors less than six months later. I also saw a company that went bankrupt despite their P & L showed a success reasonable. The company's balance sheet shows how the company uses to fund operations once the business long term. The analysis of capital collect accounts of long-term debt and retained earnings will give us the long-term vision for our society. This is not as exciting our customers and further analysis product offerings, but it is necessary for the long term.

Business Planning and the budget will allow fires to reduce the daily activity and prospects. There is an unusual number of planning medium and small Companies that do not work, either annual or strategic and budget. Most are too busy fighting fires and cons difficult to follow the pace of activities Daily. No time for planning and budgeting of their workweek to 80 hours. We've all been in this position. The question here is regrettable that fire and will not slow down for weeks or cease until a little planning and budgeting is introduced. The need for planning and budgeting becomes more intense as the business grows because of their inability to "manage by walking around." planning and budgeting can start simply and grow naturally as the business grows. This management principle will allow all employees to see the vision and orientation of the activity will begin to reduce fires that arise daily.

The biggest advantage of planning and budgeting is that it allows each business owner to quickly evaluate how an unexpected opportunity could be useful to society. I talked with many companies that have met a sudden opportunity and great potential as a competitor for sale, a good provider who need a partner, a new potential client will double sales or a potential new product that requires any new set of tools and equipment. These opportunities for access to all employers with regularity, but many disappear as quickly. Companies that have a good plan and budget in place can evaluate these opportunities quickly and easily determine if the new opportunity fits in the long-term plans of the company. These companies also have the ability to quickly to a bank in financial modeling by the strong additional capital if necessary.

It is not for sale unless you look. Most small Companies spend too much time on the sales process and till too long with the collection process. Most companies are willing to pay an income six figures for a vendor that can generate huge sales for the company and at the same time, put accounting clerk entry level in charge of the collection with little or no supervision and procedures. The company borrows more money to increase sales, while a bookkeeper without experience in customer service to pick fights. The sales department in every company should have a role in the process of collecting and society process must have a strong fair collection and customer oriented to ensure that the sale actually means money in the bank.

This process should always start before the sale. Gathering information in advance to determine if the potential customer is able to pay and ensure that clients understand the potential credit terms and payment obligations will benefit all parties. All good potential customers will appreciate this process because we all have fun trying with quality companies. I've never found a company that was unwilling to pay for products and quality services, when everyone understands the terms and conditions.

The credit department must also have a good set of processes and procedures to ensure that the process of payment flows smoothly and efficiently. turnover of providers for employees, the problems Cash and other unforeseen problems to stop or slow down the payment process. The Ministry of credit oriented manner to the client, work to keep our cash flow.

Run the business as if grandchildren to cover it. Each company is a living and dynamic organization which has many similarities with our children. Your business begins as a baby learns crawling and walking time. Never make a decision for our son does not take into account the child's future and we should not do that with our company is.

Working with a supplier has a lower quality but cheaper price can be an excellent solution for short-term cash for our company, but it will eventually drain to our customers and to destroy our company. How many times a company has lost all his records because he decided could not afford to back up your computer or a fire alarm system in your store? Have you hired an employee before you have to spend a drug test? I never missed an opportunity to engage a realtor to a competitor because I thought it would be able bring many customers. Unfortunately, it costs too much and not provide any client who pays well at all. There is no such thing as a good cut short managers with effective management and long-term success of your organization.

Recruit Smarter and people better. How many of us are committed to our friends, the seller thought was a contract, the holder of the best books on during the interview or administrator who thought it was more like us? Many small and medium enterprises are full of employees who have been hired by these reasons why small businesses can not afford high wages and all benefits packages than large firms can afford. We tend to hire the best we think we can get.

We must put our expectations and the use of our planning process to find the ideal employee. The first problem is that your company must have a good plan and annual plan of 5 years where the business logic. Your company may provide that employees are required during this period of five years. Now that we have defined what employees and the responsibilities that are required, we must find people who meet these requirements and not only that we can afford today.

I always tried to hire people who are intelligent and have more experience than me in the position specific. Any owner who believes he is the smartest individual in each area will never be able to recruit the right people. A company will never be greater than the lowest its employees to you should always hire the best.

The last company I worked with Drew, a plan showing that will have its first CPA in five years. After three years, they said they hired the CPA and have been very surprised because this individual had other options employment with major national companies with huge profits. However, this small company could provide professional growth and responsibility is not available in the larger enterprise. The vast majority of good employees prefer a more responsible for a small business a great future to a position of lesser responsibility, with a large company.

You can grow into bankruptcy. Cash is king in business and who recognize this fact to succeed and prosper. I have seen companies that grow too fast without proper business plan and are forced to close their doors or find a buyer quickly. Businesses have difficulty seeing their cash everyday and do what they need to keep the doors open. However, the doubling of its sales companies see huge profits in their states monthly financial and carried away by the excitement and success. They look at their accounts receivable Double, inventory twice, they must purchase the product even Furthermore, its employees twice because they must care for these sales and suddenly not able to do this week payroll because they have money in your checking account. His company, literally, it is clear that many business owners of small and medium enterprises have trouble understanding until they have lived.

The culture of each company is as important as mission. As mentioned above, a business is a living, breathing organization. The culture of each company is as important to the overall success of the company and its products and services. The business owner can not delegate this responsibility and be involved. There is no good or bad that corporate culture is a reflection of quality, morality and ethics of its owner. The success of change corporate culture is not constant, but evolves with the growth and expansion of the organization. Evolving culture a business is a sure way to close a deal.

A company with a strict dress code, clocks are applied with care, and many processes and procedures is not better than another company no dress code, some processes, and telecommuting for employees. The only difference is the type of workers who maintain and how to do business.

Its competitors are essential quality for success in the long term. You can stop laughing now, because it's really a fact that every successful business understands. It is an unusual concept, but the big companies and all the women kiss. Competition is a wonderful concept in any free market economy and quality competition makes us all better. quality competitors drives us to achieve improvements in quality products and quality services and ensure that we have a quality customer oriented operation. We've all seen the activity of spring offers a discount 50% of some very good market for our products. Our sales of autumn and spend time and effort away from our core business to the pursuit of this situation. They stay in business for a short period of time and achieve nothing more than the origin of our customers to question our industry. competitors Quality pushes us all to greatness and there is plenty of room in all industries from various agencies.

Outsourcing reduces costs and improves your weaknesses. Many people hear the jokes about language issues in large call centers firms in India and the Philippines say they never commit the same mistake. However, this could be a situation that is not really a mistake. A good programmer IT in the U.S. can cost more than $ 100,000 per year in taxes on wages, benefits, etc. This employee in India with exactly the same intelligence, skills and experience can cost as little as $ 30,000 per year.

The principle of management is that we should all focus on our strengths and outsource everything else as much as possible. No business man think twice about using a tax accountant would be our rate Federal and state taxation. It is a highly technical field that is constantly evolving. Most of us also have a law firm external. Why limit the primary use of outsourcing of these two areas? Today, there is the payroll professional firms, employee leasing companies, finance companies and development companies for recovery, computer and Internet companies marketing. These companies work with many professional organizations, is the best current practices in the industry and the best may be held abreast of technical changes in their field of specialization.

The only area that a company I advise against outsourcing is the area is crucial to the success of your business. Never let the heart of its success to break their control. For example, if your company has a plan property marketing or customer database or a method of engineering or production that is the key to their success, do not leave out of your control.

About the Author

Mel Luigs is the President and CEO of AML & Associates, a national management consulting company, which provides a “Part Time” CFO for small and medium business that want to grow and expand. He is a highly accomplished executive with a solid history of developing critical business solutions and demonstrated leadership in both small and Fortune 500 companies. He has a strong combination of operational and financial expertise in both the manufacturing, retail and franchise business areas along with a solid background building strong working relationships, growing small companies or departments, building customer oriented teams and obtaining results. His company website is www.aml-associates.com

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