As a business owner what's your single greatest challenge?

[Bob Foster]

Name the one and only top one

What is it? Profitability, cash flow, staff, operations, time management, competition, bulletin board addiciton.....


And why is that?


And what can you do about it?



ps Steve Toburen is going to help us all out...

 

[renegade_cowboy]

Enough start up capital to be able to go full time.


:mrgreen:

 

[Guest]

Arthritis; I was born with it; not enough custy's!!

 

[Able 1]

Advertising would be mine flyers are getting very old!

 

[Larry B]

Employees. Just when you think its all perfect one leaves.

 

[ruff]

Separating personal life from the business.

One gets so involved that it can be hard to draw the line.

 

[Able 1]

Separating personal life from the business.

One gets so involved that it can be hard to draw the line.

I'm changing mine to this...

 

[Dolly Llama]

Name the one and only top one

What is it?

motivating myself to do what I should be doing

And why is that?

selfishness/laziness

And what can you do about it?

after 50 years of trying with little improvement,(though hope springs eternal, and i never give up completely )
I've learned to find ways around character flaws
Most notably, by doing/focusing more on the things I do/can do well

ps Steve Toburen is going to help us all out...

[/quote][/quote]

maybe someone else.
But i already have top of the line $600 treadmill in my basement..
...that doesn't get used... :mrgreen:


..L.T.A.

 

[Doug Cox]

This year it has been cash flow due to my unfortunate injury. With the lost income, hospital bills and Truckmount maintenance and repairs, it took me until just a week ago to catch up on bills and start saving for winter. I'm about a month behind and it might burden me big time this winter.

 

[bob vawter]

I'm shy....sometimes!

 

[Able 1]

I'm shy....sometimes!

In the the house you have never offered PROTECTION!! BaWb how dare you!

 

[Scott S.]

i would say mine would be marketing

 

[bob vawter]

Since i AM the new and the improved bobvawter.......that particular location will henceforth be known as "the house".........i got my ass reamed from Mikey for that....OK?

 

[Able 1]

Gotcha! :roll:

 

[Jack May]

Implementation!!

So many ideas, so little implemented over the past 8 years.

If I did that, that would rectify all the other close seconds.

John

 

[boazcan]

I never imagined getting customers would be so darn hard. My good commercial customers take months to cultivate and residential customers have some price shopping whores. Really been racking my brain when this be starting our busy time.

 

[steve frasier]

getting residential customers but then again I have never really tried, commercial work just seems to fall in my lap for some reason but doesn't pay enough at times but it is consistant repeating work

the other day I bid $658 for a little over 4300 sq ft of carpet, this included moving about 50 plastic chair mats, chairs, a couple of couches and moving/replacing everything when done, then include in the bid was a strip and wax of the breakroom @ $.50 sq ft that included moving several tables and the chairs that go with it

$883 total

was out bid by service master by more then a couple of $100

 

[Desk Jockey]

bulletin board addiction!

 

[steve r]

staying outta strip bars!

 

[Desk Jockey]

Steve......errr...if you're having trouble, I would like to volunteer my services to help get you out of there. :roll:

It might take a while but I'm sure we would find the exit........eventually! :shock:

 

[-JB-]

myself

 

[Blue Monarch]

Failure to implement the things I know I need to do.

No other comments.

 

[Brian R]

letting go.