THE SAD TRUTH
A recent Dun and Bradstreet statistic suggests that 88.7% of small business failures are due to management mistakes.
- 46% of the failures are due to incompetence in pricing, planning, financial management, and record keeping.
- A further 30% are because of unbalanced or non-existent managerial skills.
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Do you find:
- running a business is nothing like you imagined
- if you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done
- there’s just no time to develop your business
- it’s near-impossible to take quality time off.
Many people start their own business and then discover there’s vastly more to do than they ever imagined. Most tasks such as bookkeeping, customer service, sales and marketing fall to the owner, regularly requiring long and exhausting hours. Most business owners are also responsible for the frustrating role of being the fire fighter, constantly fixing issues that their staff, while in most cases good intentioned, create on a day-to day basis due to lack of training; lack of care or, from a business owners perspective, general incompetence. It’s no wonder that 95% of small businesses owners, though being initially excited at the prospect of being their own boss, inevitably shut their doors within just 5 years.