Avoid Becoming Victim of a Recession
Avoid Becoming Victim of a Recession
If a recession does in fact happen, it doesn’t need to have any affect on your business – just as long as you choose to be proactive, take responsibility for your own business and take the appropriate actions. In fact, your business can still grow.
A good example is one of our clients, Benn Milne, the owner of Vogel Motors, a medium sized motor mechanic workshop in Lower Hutt.
Ever since Benn had bought the business he had found February was the quietest month of the year.
It was a stressful month as it put a real squeeze on cash flow. Initially Benn simply believed this was just the way things were and there was nothing he could do about it.
After working with us and learning to look at things from a different perspective, Benn identified that he was allowing himself to be a victim of circumstance – acting as if he was at the mercy of circumstances beyond his control.
With ambitious plans for his business, he wanted to change the results and no longer allow the month of the year to dictate his results.
Benn saw that if he kept doing what he had always done – he’d keep getting the results he’d always got. So, instead, he took a proactive stance and decided that if clients weren’t coming to him in February – he’d put together strategies to go out to them.
These included setting up a strategic alliance with Hell’s Pizza giving away free WOF vouchers when customers bought pizzas.
He set up promotions with parents at local schools, began approaching vehicle fleet companies directly to pitch for their work, and ran free educational workshops for women.
In my experience, in any industry and at any time, there will always be some business owners complaining about how tough the industry is at that time.
These businesses will always find people prepared to agree with them and take part in ‘pity parties’ to bemoan how unfair things are and how ‘when the economy changes’ everything will be better.
Unfortunately, such conversations rarely touch upon what they could all be doing differently to change their results.
Right now, the automotive industry is full of people complaining about the lack of new imports coming into the country and associated lack of flow-on mechanical work.
And yet in the same industry, at the same time and in the same area you are likely to see at least one other business doing very well.
Usually, what makes the difference is that business is taking proactive actions to get better results.
Benn’s original belief that he couldn’t change his results couldn’t have been more wrong. This February turned out to be the busiest month he had ever had.
If you feel that you can’t influence your current results, because of an impending recession, or for any other reason, then perhaps you could also be taking the opportunity to change your perceptions.
Avoid Becoming Victim of a Recession - To learn more about this author, visit Mark Skelly's Website.
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There is a lot of discussion right now about whether there is going to be a recession. The scare-mongers are in full swing and stress levels are rising for the many business owners that are buying into the stories.
If a recession does in fact happen, it doesn’t need to have any affect on your business – just as long as you choose to be proactive, take responsibility for your own business and take the appropriate actions. In fact, your business can still grow.
A good example is one of our clients, Benn Milne, the owner of Vogel Motors, a medium sized motor mechanic workshop in Lower Hutt.
Ever since Benn had bought the business he had found February was the quietest month of the year.
It was a stressful month as it put a real squeeze on cash flow. Initially Benn simply believed this was just the way things were and there was nothing he could do about it.
After working with us and learning to look at things from a different perspective, Benn identified that he was allowing himself to be a victim of circumstance – acting as if he was at the mercy of circumstances beyond his control.
With ambitious plans for his business, he wanted to change the results and no longer allow the month of the year to dictate his results.
Benn saw that if he kept doing what he had always done – he’d keep getting the results he’d always got. So, instead, he took a proactive stance and decided that if clients weren’t coming to him in February – he’d put together strategies to go out to them.
These included setting up a strategic alliance with Hell’s Pizza giving away free WOF vouchers when customers bought pizzas.
He set up promotions with parents at local schools, began approaching vehicle fleet companies directly to pitch for their work, and ran free educational workshops for women.
In my experience, in any industry and at any time, there will always be some business owners complaining about how tough the industry is at that time.
These businesses will always find people prepared to agree with them and take part in ‘pity parties’ to bemoan how unfair things are and how ‘when the economy changes’ everything will be better.
Unfortunately, such conversations rarely touch upon what they could all be doing differently to change their results.
Right now, the automotive industry is full of people complaining about the lack of new imports coming into the country and associated lack of flow-on mechanical work.
And yet in the same industry, at the same time and in the same area you are likely to see at least one other business doing very well.
Usually, what makes the difference is that business is taking proactive actions to get better results.
Benn’s original belief that he couldn’t change his results couldn’t have been more wrong. This February turned out to be the busiest month he had ever had.
If you feel that you can’t influence your current results, because of an impending recession, or for any other reason, then perhaps you could also be taking the opportunity to change your perceptions.
Avoid Becoming Victim of a Recession - To learn more about this author, visit Mark Skelly's Website.
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 Mark Skelly (Visit Mark's Website) Mark has spent years and literally tens of thousands of dollars searching out and investing in the knowledge of successful people in many fields. Mark’s invested in acquiring knowledge and experience from experts in marketing, world leading peak performance coaches, business strategy gurus, meditation teachers, mind mastery mentors, international experts in leadership and communication. Prior to founding Red Hot Business Coaching (now a nationwide franchise in New Zealand), Mark came from a corporate background, holding operational responsibilities of over $600 million per annum. Mark and his wife have a substantial and growing residential investment property portfolio with properties from Auckland to Dunedin and many in between. Mark has a passion for aviation and holds his Private Pilot’s License. If you want to get Mark excited just start talking about airplanes, Ferraris, or his beautiful little girl Alyssa! Mark is a firm believer that “if you’re not going forwards then you’re going backwards” and has been on a journey of personal-development for many years, a highlight of which was walking on Red Hot coals!
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