{"id":396,"date":"2008-09-19T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2008-09-15T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:07:21","slug":"measuring-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/09\/measuring-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring your business&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a blog post about <a title=\"Why you need to measure performance\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.theage.com.au\/enterprise\/archives\/2008\/09\/why_you_need_to.html\" target=\"_blank\">why you need\u00a0to measure performance <\/a>which seems like a good starting point for all small business owners.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good question &#8211; I mean, if you don&#8217;t measure your success in various areas of your business, how do you know you are actually succeeding? Or how will you know that there is a so-far-minor problem in one area before it turns into a major issue for you and your business?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is important to keep on top of where you are at in all areas of business, but I liked the suggestion in this blog post that it is better to start monitoring one or two key areas now than to wait &#8220;until I have enough time&#8221; to set up measuring programs for everything important to your business.<\/p>\n<p>Why start small with your measuring when the whole picture is so important?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is easier to do so it&#8217;s more likely to actually happen!<\/li>\n<li>starting with one area will teach you skills and make a wider scale measurement easier later<\/li>\n<li>data in one area can be dealt with &#8211; once that area is working well, you can focus on another area. Compare that to trying to fix 6 areas at once whilst also trying to manage clients and general business tasks<\/li>\n<li>improving one thing often has a flow on effect to other areas anyway<\/li>\n<li>you&#8217;ll gain confidence and belief in measuring that will inspire you to make time for more over time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So my question is &#8211; how often do you measure your business performance? Which area do you think most needs assessment right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a blog post about why you need\u00a0to measure performance which seems like a good starting point for all small business owners. It&#8217;s a good question &#8211; I mean, if you don&#8217;t measure your success in various areas of your business, how do you know you are actually succeeding? Or how will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[86,739,736,737,91,738,714],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","tag-business","tag-identify","tag-measure","tag-performance","tag-plan","tag-problem","tag-small"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}