Business Housekeeping Countdown

Got some extra time on your calendar in the second half of this month due to holiday slow down? Great!

This is the perfect time for a little business housekeeping. You know, taking care of all those little things you haven't made time for because you've been too busy marketing your practice and serving your clients, like:

• updating your website, making sure all your links and buttons work
• formalizing new service packages and policies
  
• cancelling online accounts that aren't producing
• cleaning out your data base of prospects who never buy, attend or hire
• deleting all those guru ezines you've intended to read and never have

I don't know about you, but that could keep me busy for 2-3 weeks.

Not much fun, though. So, what about balancing the housekeeping with some other business development tasks that you may not have taken time for either, such as:

• creating a vision board for achievements you want to accomplish within 5 years
• hosting a spontaneous, informal celebration lunch with colleagues to toast the 2009 successes
• shopping for a new item that contributes to business efficiency or reach
  
• seeking out a group to join in January that will be part business learning, part social, part accountability keeping
  
• finding teleclasses to take to improve marketing skills

While it's tempting to blow off work entirely over the holiday slow down, a little housekeeping and a little forward thinking can be better for giving your practice an energized start for the New Year.

So what will you tackle today, next week, and before Dec 31?