How Can I Make My Business Productive, Profitable, Stable, and Rewarding?

Alexander Lim
6 min readApr 27, 2022

To make your business profitable, stable, and rewarding, you need to put some time and effort into it. Business leaders need to have a plan. This plan has to be simple and easy to follow.

It should not require you to work harder than you are willing or able. It should not require you to sacrifice things that are important to you for the business to succeed.

You need a realistic plan that can be followed without much trouble or frustration.

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Tips 1: Make Sure Your Business Is Doing Something for the Customer

The most important thing that you can do is make sure that your business is doing something for the customer that the customer wants or needs to be done. There are two ways of making sure this happens:

  • You can take the time necessary to figure out what it is that your customers want or need doing. After that, make sure your business does those things for them;
  • You can hire someone else who already knows what it is that your customers want or need to be done, then let them do those things for them.

If you don’t know what it is that your customers want or need doing, take the time necessary to find out before trying anything else. The more you know about what your customers want or need, the more successful your business will be.

The most important thing that you can do to make your business profitable is to find out what it is that your customers require in life, then make sure your business does those things for them.

Tips 2: Set Up A System

The second most important thing that you can do is set up a system in which you get paid for doing what it is that your customers want or need to be done.

You must set up a system in which your financial stability will be easier to achieve. You must do this at the beginning of your business setup.

This system must include at least the following three things:

  1. A list of people who are willing to pay for the things that it is that you do;
  2. An effective way of getting these people to buy from you, and
  3. An effective way of getting these people to pay you for the things that you do.

These three things are all necessary if your business is going to be productive, profitable, stable, and rewarding.

Tips 3: Get Rid of All The Time-Wasters

The third most important thing that you can do is to get rid of all the time-wasters in your business. There are many time wasters in the business industry.

Some people will try to take advantage of you. There are also many factors that will decrease your business productivity.

You can also do things that are very wasteful. If you don’t stop, it will cause your business to become less profitable, less stable, and less rewarding than it possibly could be.

All of those things are necessary to be eliminated from your business. Put your to-do list on your Google Calendar or other productivity apps and create an effective schedule around it.

Tips 4: Develop the Skills Necessary to Run a Successful Business

The fourth most important thing that you can do is develop the skills necessary to run a successful business.

This includes writing, speaking, math, science, management, marketing, salesmanship, public relations, psychology, persuasion, and communication skills. It also includes the ability to read and understand contracts and legal documents and forms.

You must have these skills if you want your business to become stable and profitable. In fact, you must also have these skills if you want your life to be productive and rewarding.

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Tips 5: Develop the Skills to Get Along with People

The fifth most important thing that you can do is to develop the skills necessary to get along with people.

The better you get along with people, the more rewarding your business will be.

How can you get along with people? First of all, you have to understand that most people are good and honest. If you treat them with respect and honesty, they will reciprocate. If you act arrogantly or condescendingly toward others, they will react negatively to you.

Tips 6: Learn How to Write a Business Plan

The sixth most important thing that you can do is to learn how to write a business plan. Writing a business plan is a very valuable skill. It’s not just something that you’ll do once, and then never need to do again.

If you are an entrepreneur, writing a business plan will be an ongoing activity. The purpose of the business plan is to outline the future of your business in order to ensure that it’s productive, profitable, stable, and rewarding.

Writing a business plan takes time and effort. But if you don’t know how to write one, it’s very difficult to succeed as an entrepreneur.

Writing a business plan will take several hours of your time. That’s why I recommend that you find someplace quiet where you can focus on writing the plan without interruption for several hours at a time.

Once you have completed the initial draft of your business plan, have it reviewed by someone who has some experience in reading and reviewing these types of documents.

If you can afford it, hire someone who is an expert in this area to review your document and provide feedback on how to improve it further. In doing this, you can make sure that your business plan will be more effective at communicating your goals and objectives with investors or bankers.

A business plan is a written document that outlines the future of your business. A good business plan will describe how you intend to achieve success in your business. It will also show how you are going to deal with the challenges that you are likely to face.

It’s not a requirement for starting a business, but it’s something that I highly recommend doing. It can help you develop your skills as an entrepreneur and make your life easier in the long run.

Final Thought

To make your business productive, profitable, stable, and rewarding, you need to put some time and effort into it. You have to have a plan. This plan has to be simple and easy to follow.

It should not require you to work harder than you are willing or able. It should also not require you to sacrifice things that are important to you for the business to succeed. It should be a realistic plan that can be followed without much trouble or frustration.

About the Author

I hope that my post has helped you know more about Startups. Feel free to leave a comment and tag me and I will answer them. Follow my profile to get the latest content I post to stay ahead of the curve.

I am the Founder of Cudy Technologies, a full-stack EdTech startup helping teachers and students learn better. I am also a mentor and angel investor in other Startups of my other interests (Proptech, Fintech, HRtech, Ride-hailing, C2C marketplaces, and SaaS). You can also find me on Cudy for early-stage Startup Founder mentorship and advice.

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Alexander Lim

Founder of Cudy Technologies (www.cudy.co), a full-stack EdTech startup helping teachers and students teach and learn better. I am also a mentor and investor.