{"id":9390,"date":"2021-12-30T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/?p=9390"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T14:11:52","slug":"how-to-create-a-winning-business-strategy-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-winning-business-strategy-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Winning Business Strategy for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A business strategy is at the core of every great and successful business. Don’t believe us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the Harvard Business Review<\/a> published findings that revealed identical pairs of entrepreneurs with one key difference \u2014 plan or no plan, had very different odds of success. In fact, businesses with no plan were 16% more likely to fail and never reach viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below, we dive into some of the best ways to create a winning business plan to help you grow in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Is the Core of Your Business?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first thing you need to get nailed down is exactly what your business does. Trust us, this might require a little more thought than you would think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Successful businesses don’t just sell a product or service, they provide a solution to a problem, or fulfil a need in their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approaching your business from this direction instead of simply “we sell toys” or “we provide accounting services” will make an important difference going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know Your Audience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now that you understand your business, you need to get familiar with your customers. Grab a pen and paper and start making notes about who your customers are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are they old or young? Are they mostly men or women? What kind of industries do they work in? Do they have some common interests? Get as detailed as possible with anything you can think will apply across the broad spectrum of your customer base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you do that, it is much easier to figure out what it is that is important to them, and this can help you to structure how you approach and sell to them. There are also many services to help you generate customers, whether you need ERP leads<\/a> or fitness enthusiasts, there is a way to reach your audience, as long as you know who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be SMART<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your business plan and marketing strategy should always have elements of SMART goal planning (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-sensitive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specific<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The actions to be taken and goals should be clear and precise. For example, set a target number of sales or new customers\/leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measurable<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You need to have a way to accurately monitor your results and see improvements being made. Come up with some important KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to measure growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achievable<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This one is pretty straightforward, if you are just starting out and you haven’t invested in marketing, don’t set a lofty goal that is impossible to hit. That only leads to loss of morale and stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realistic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While goals should push you and your business to greater success, they shouldn’t be unrealistic. Make sure to keep your plan within reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time-sensitive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Put times and dates into your business planning so that you have deadlines to work to. This will encourage you to reach milestones within a specific timeframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to Put the Perfect Business Strategy Together?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Business in 2022 requires careful planning. Without a business strategy that looks closely at your product or service, your customers and makes SMART plans, you are going in blind. Use the points above to prepare your business to achieve the absolute best results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A business strategy is at the core of every great and successful business. Don’t believe us? Well, the Harvard Business Review published findings that revealed identical pairs of entrepreneurs with one key difference \u2014 plan or no plan, had very different odds of success. In fact, businesses with no plan were 16% more likely to fail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atyourbusiness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}