Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1: Design Your Business Future and Win Your First Customer

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Stage one: strategic planning. If you look down at the graph, you'll see in front of you what the personality of this particular stage is. Well, your major focus is going to be drive; your other major focus is going to be income and interaction because, remember, we have to persuade the marketplace that we have a good idea, and we have to sell it first before we create it. Now that's high risk, because you have to live up to what you said after the fact you have to deliver on what you've promised. So this is all about making the promise and delivering it. You will need a quality product because, as you get to the later stage you want to develop, you're about to sell your product, so that needs to come into play. Your blind spot here, and it'll be a virtually non-existent one, is systems. You will create a little bit of structure; your systems will be virtually non-existent. You're going to do whatever it takes to get yourself to that first customer. Your focus for this particular stage is to design your future. It's both your focus and your outcome, really. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.