Companies are very good at pointing out the main business problems and challenges. It can be lack of certainty or clear objectives, effectiveness, not moving fast enough, prioritizing etc. We here at Weekdone brought out the 10 most common business challenges and offered fixes that have worked successfully in the past.

1. Fixes for 10
Business Challenges

2. Uncertainty and lack of a clear plan
1. Find a good balance between short and
long-term planning
2. Use Objectives and Key Results
methodology to envision long-term success

3. Sales and marketing effectiveness
1. Define key customer pain points and customize
your message accordingly
2. Use a software to track your pipeline
3. Evaluate customer acquisition cost for every level
of the customer funnel to avoid overspending

4. Not moving fast enough
Implement an agile mindset:
1. Remove bureaucracy and possible barrier
2. Do team hackathons to solve a time
consuming problem in 48h
3. “There is no failure, only feedback”

5. Prioritize:
1. Smaller tasks - Worth Your Time Test
2. Strategic decisions - 80/20 Principle
3. Weekly planning - Eisenhower Matrix
Say NO to everything else
Saying NO and prioritizing

6. Hiring the right people
1. Define the skills, experience, and personal qualities the job
requires
2. Find the right channels, where the right people might be (for
example stackoverflow.com for programmers)
3.Structurize the job interview to avoid hires based on gut feelings.

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8. Time management
1. Create filters to automatically prioritize your emails
2. Make a template for everything you do more than once
3.Use automated status reports instead of time
consuming status update meetings

9. Customer service
1. Get an advantage by responding faster than your competitors
2. Ask other people besides customer support to do part time
customer service
3. Write down answers for frequently asked questions, so you
can copy and paste them

10. Financial management
1. Leverage software and tools to avoid
high starting costs
2. Hire and outsource professionals.
3. Prioritize proper accounting methods

11. Getting over setbacks
1. Shift the focus from failure to possibilities, help
people identify the problems and ask what they learned
2. Make use out of a crisis to cultivate the need for
change and new productive habits

12. Tracking productivity
1. Define key metrics: hours worked, productivity
per hour, reports produced, priority followed
2. Use an accountability system/tool: scoreboard,
time tracking, progress reporting

13. Refocus your business with Weekdone
Weekly Planning + Quarterly Objectives
weekdone.com
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