{"id":11027,"date":"2017-01-04T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:20:14","slug":"a-small-business-must-think-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2017\/01\/a-small-business-must-think-big.html","title":{"rendered":"A Small Business Must Think Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10457\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10457\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Donation-DC-Central-Kitchen-CC2-Flickr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"charitable donation\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Donation-DC-Central-Kitchen-CC2-Flickr-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Donation-DC-Central-Kitchen-CC2-Flickr-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Donation-DC-Central-Kitchen-CC2-Flickr-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Donation-DC-Central-Kitchen-CC2-Flickr.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo (CC 2.0) by DC Central Kitchen, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Small businesses must think big.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that I am telling you something you aren&#8217;t already planning. Owners are always thinking of how to add more staff, sell more, increase the size of your store and, the ultimate, increase the number of locations you have, and make more money.<\/p>\n<p>All of those are certainly worthy of your planning and effort.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>my encouragement to think big actually is something else<\/strong>. My definition of \u201cthink big\u201d includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting big goals for family and community support<\/li>\n<li>Developing plans to be a long-running business, whether that\u2019s through being multigenerational or other means of transition<\/li>\n<li>Finding and internally developing employees who have big talent<\/li>\n<li>Having a big heart<\/li>\n<li>Undertaking new projects<\/li>\n<li>Generating big memories<\/li>\n<li>Providing unbounded happiness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see from this list, the big goals<strong> focus on the social and community aspects of your business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some will challenge this idea, saying that a business must be a business first. And you can\u2019t deny the fact that <strong>being around to accomplish any of your big goals does require a business that is profitable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet thinking big along the lines suggested becomes a key for a profitable business.<\/strong> These suggestions &#8211; you don\u2019t need to undertake all of them &#8211; form part of your brand. Your company becomes noted for them and they become part of your story. It distinguishes your business from the others.<\/p>\n<p>So as a small-business owner,\u00a0<strong>THINK BIG!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses must think big.\u00a0 I suspect that I am telling you something you aren&#8217;t already planning. Owners are always thinking of how to add more staff, sell more, increase the size of your store and, the ultimate, increase the number of locations you have, and make more money. All of those are certainly worthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[87,272,273,48],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11028,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}