What you need to do in order to successfully run a family business

Business is good in that you can realize your potential, experience the power of nature and make every effort to improve the financial condition. At the very least, influence the level of personal income.

With this all clear, but it remains an important question: where to find a reliable partner? How to find someone you can rely on? For me, this has become a partner of the husband. In 2005, one year after graduation, the first time we are thinking about opening a family business and in the shortest possible time to implement its plans. Since then, 14 years have passed, but we never regretted it.

During our work together was a lot of failures and victories. We learned to manage, promote, sell, and we continue to develop these skills. The main thing is that you know in due course, - the power in synergy. Only proven team go "out of the frying pan into the fire." Therefore, it is important the presence of a partner you trust in life and in business.

What can we do and what we should be ready by opening a family business?

1. Decide who's in charge

This expedient to agree immediately. There is nothing worse for a joint business than the eternal struggle for leadership.

2. divide responsibilities

Separate the functions needed everywhere: in the directions, niches and customers. During the time of doing business I had a lot of familiar business families. Among them cook okonschiki, owners of chain stores and IT-companies. We all like roles:

• one leads the service line and solves technical problems (organizing the provision of services, the supply of goods, is responsible for the information and the technical equipment of the company);
• the other promotes the company, is responsible for marketing and finances.

The result is a productive tandem.

In our company, I am also responsible for the launch of new destinations. We have formed a check-list, which includes a variety of items: from the study of the target audience to the launch of ready advertising campaigns with the new site, scripts, web analytics. In this case the husband is immersed in the technical side of the issue.

3. Put common goals

Family business - it's common goals, plans and dreams. This applies to professional and personal development. This business brings together family and makes it resistant to the difficulties that arise in life.

4. Work on the general budget

Organized a joint business - prepare the budget becomes one. Now you are working on increasing the company's profits from which financial stability of the family depends directly. In addition, the husband and wife's earnings become transparent. But this is only if conducted financial Accounting.

Work on one thing and pleasant, and profitable, but it is known expression: "Do not store eggs in one basket." The company operates at a loss? Family budget falls into the danger zone. That it does not bother you, postpone "a jug."

5. Assign wage

The problem faced by the budding entrepreneurs - lack of understanding of how much they earn and what their monthly income. You can avoid such a situation, if both spouses to designate wages, consisting of two parts:

• fixed - salary that you receive, regardless of business economics;
• variable - an agreed percentage of the arrived Company, which is paid for the financial closure of the month or year.

6. Do not be afraid to get bored with each other

Many people think that spouses working together, bored with each other very much. From personal experience I would say that this is not true: I work in an office, and the husband is constantly on the move: negotiating on new facilities, enters into transactions, negotiating with suppliers. As a result, we see each other not much more than if they worked separately.

7. Separate personal time and work

An urgent need to discuss the project? Do this at the appropriate time. Otherwise there is a risk that the work will be the clock. Learn to separate the time between personal and professionalThen life will be more harmonious.

8. Do not carry the problem

Difficulties in business can turn into problems in the family, and vice versa. Opinion spouses often do not coincide. As a result, there are disputes. It should be hard to control myself not to start dismantling with employees, so you need to learn to share work and family issues, as well as being restrained. If this fails, then the authority of leaders falls irrevocably.

9. Plan your vacation

Families who lead the overall business, at first faced with the complexity of organizing a joint vacation. A husband and wife take the two major leadership positions, and perform many functions, so leave and leave the company at the same time is not possible, at least in the first two years of operation.

To be productive, do not forget relax. Plan your holiday separately and lays the time to relax in the joint mission. You begin to travel together when will hire the right people and learn to delegate.

10. Keep motivate and trust

When the business becomes a family, there are more opportunities to truly support and motivate each other. The confidence soars to highest level. Who still trust in the family business and in life in general, if not the favorite person?

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In any case, you decide to open a family business or not, remember that business - is a case in which it is necessary to continuously develop and learn new things. Get ready to dive into the work of the company with all his heart and work in a team, and then it will make family relationships even stronger.