While being creative and operationally minded is a challenge there are ways to turn creativity into business success. The most common mistakes made are that of not defining core objectives and setting up yourself and your business in a planned fashion to allow for success. Here are 6 tips to turn your skills or creativity into business success. (Image credit: Flickr)
Decide on the core objective
Decide on what the core activity or service will be and how that incorporates your skills or creativity
Establish motive
get to know why it is that you want to enjoy business success
What is the driver
The driver is what will get you through the valleys and hills on the journey of business sucess. get to know what will drive you.
Organize Goals
You simply need to know what your goals are and give them a priority ranking of some sort. While the environment changes, goals can be changed accordingly. Post it notes are a big help.
Organize Your Thinktank and sounding board
Source and organize experienced mentors and individuals who have enough experience and are invested in your ideas and business success. That way you can have regular conversations with them and they can hold you accountable for your business success and growth. They can also serve as a sounding board for ideas and or decisions to be made.
Build business maps and platforms
Once you have a business map to reach the goals you have set, it can look intimidating but breaking it up into small chunks will help take the fear out of it and increase your likelihood of success.
While the video below was designed really for those wanting to user video there are lessons to learn from here.
Are we missing any crucial tips if so, please feel free to add to the list in the comments below.
Stephanie Smith
I would like to open an online shop for my art prints. I have the motive, and I have the driver. I just need help organizing my goals and the technicalities of the process. I’m considering a business training program, but I’ll be doing more research before diving in. Thanks so much!