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Six quick tips to drive business growth

Sprint BusinessHow to fire up your business mojo

If you’re reading this, you’re growing a business. And that means you’re insanely busy.

Upshot? We’ll keep this snappy.

Here are six things you can do to ignite your business mojo – so you can grow fast, and grow healthy.

Sprint BusinessHow to fire up your business mojo

1 2 Choose the right tech.

No, really. Invest in tech.

Look at the stuff you do each day. Then look at the tech that could help you do it faster and better. And then, exploit it mercilessly.

Thanks to the cloud, you can get infrastructure, devices and software ‘as-a-service’, that allow you to stay nimble and asset-light. These can scale easily as you grow and you pay monthly. No large upfront investment. Plus, you can give your people world-class productivity and collaboration tools, wherever they go without breaking your budget.

“After rolling out Google Apps, our communications issues were gone. And our ability to service more customers in a smaller amount of time has been a huge benefit.”

Drew Timberlake, CIO, A.B. May

When tech isn’t your area of expertise, investing in it can be scary. But don’t give into that fear… if it’s the right tech, the investment will pay you back again and again.

Don’t feel qualified to make that call? Find someone who is. A good tech partner will be able to advise you on what you need, how it can scale, how it’s going to deliver, and work with you to make sure it does.

88% of small business owners say technology is helping them serve customers better.

Sprint BusinessHow to fire up your business mojo

3 4 Choose the best people.

Liberate those people.

Hunt them down. Drag them in. Butter them up. Do whatever it takes to get them on board. (And keep them there.)

Having the best people on your team is a double-win. They bring their own, unique – brilliant – perspectives. And they let you focus on growth.

“When we ask successful owners what they would do differently, consistently they reply ‘invest in better people earlier’.”

Gerard Burke, Senior Visiting Fellow, Cass Business School

Find out how your team works best. Then let them work that way.

Where possible, give them the freedom to get business done anywhere, on their own schedules and on their favorite tech. Whatever it takes for them to give your business their all.

“Having everything […] easily on mobile devices allows us to be a more flexible workplace, whether that be working from home, interstate, or maybe just from our rooftop terrace.”

James Richardson, Founder, Optimising

Sprint BusinessHow to fire up your business mojo

5 6 Get other people talking. Set social media ablaze.

Save. Then spend, spend, spend.

Your business is downright awesome. So take to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (and so on) – and tell the world.

Even better, ask the world questions. Offer it useful advice. Give it contests to enter. Do whatever it takes to get social media buzzing.

Social media comments and recommendations now play as big a role in purchasing decisions as television advertising.

Source: CivicScience insight report, October 2014

As you grow, having working capital will keep your options open. New staff? New offices or storefronts? With luck, you may need them sooner than you think.

So, save. But don’t get attached to those dollars in the bank. That money’s your growth fuel. When you to need to, reinvest without hesitation after doing your due diligence.

“A financial reinvestment, applied strategically, can pay off tremendously in terms of long-term development.”

Brenton Hayden, Founder, Renters Warehouse

Sprint BusinessHow to fire up your business mojo

Now, go – work that business mojo.Sprint Business Mojo

Every growing business is fueled by mojo: the magical combination of confidence, attitude and energy.

Sprint Business Mojo helps accelerate your growing business, with the best devices, most flexible plans, pay-as-you-go pricing and dedicated (no, really dedicated) support. Get your mojo working.

Talk to Sprint. Call us at 877-633-1102 sprint.com/businessmojo

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