It’s Springtime, so let’s spring into action! Welcoming the reawakening, reviving, and renewing effects of nature is so exciting. Hello April and goodbye to the doldrums of winter. Also, goodbye to the first quarter of 2023. Do not panic if your bottom line is not where you want it to be, you have not met your quarterly goals or if you just cannot get your business ideas to bloom. Let SCORE help you spring into action or get back on track. Whether you are a scrappy startup, scaling small business or successful entrepreneur all businesses need an annual and good “spring cleaning.” It is time to declutter, purge, break bad habits and make room for the new.

Can you smell it in the spring air? Smells like success, smells like fresh opportunities, and smells like blooming breakthroughs. Ready to spring clean your business, dust off your dreams, put a pep in your business plan, infuse more cash in your business, or extract magic out of your marketing plan? Well, SCORE, and its plethora of FREE resources, and committed and talent-rich FREE business coaches are ready to help you.  Here are some tips and resources you can use to spring clean your small business with SCORE.

These tips are coupled with a SCORE resource(s). SCORE offers many resources, such as, but not limited to, live webinars, recorded webinars, business templates, free business mentors/coaches and so much more.  However, to honor your time and the power of brevity, the list below points you to one or two resources.

1. 1) Review and update your business plan. Recorded webinars. - Lean Business Planning for Better Management - https://www.score.org/event/lean-business-planning-better-management or The Startup Roadmap - Business Plan or Business Model Canvas? - https://www.score.org/course/startup-roadmap-business-plan-or-business-model-canvas
2.   Review and update your standard operating procedures. -   Recorded webinar. - Creating an Effective Business Workflow - https://www.score.org/event/creating-effective-business-workflow
3. Reevaluate your goals, key success measures and key performance indicators. - Recorded webinar. - Metrics to Guide Your Business & Make Decisions - https://www.score.org/santafe/event/metrics-guide-your-business-make-decisions
4. Increase your cash flow. - Recorded webinar. - Cash Flow Management Basics - https://www.score.org/buckscounty/event/cash-flow-management-basics-1 or How to Find Grant Opportunities for Your Small Business - https://www.score.org/event/how-find-grant-opportunities-your-small-business
5. Organize your customer/client portfolio. – Article - How to Identify Your Ideal Customers - https://www.score.org/resource/article/how-identify-your-ideal-customers  or Template - Creating A Persona For Your Customers - https://www.score.org/northwestarkansas/resource/template/creating-persona-your-customers
6. Unclog your sales pipeline. -  Recorded webinar. - 5 Tactical Ways to Grow Your Sales - https://www.score.org/midflorida/event/5-tactical-ways-grow-your-sales  
7. Improve yourself. Organize your books and learning materials. - SCORE Live Webinars - Upcoming Events - Free or Low-Cost Business Education – Delaware - https://www.score.org/delaware/local-workshops  - AND - National - https://www.score.org/business-education/upcoming-events
8. Get your marketing strategies in shape. - Recorded webinars. - Marketing Plan 101 - Create Your Roadmap To Success - https://www.score.org/santabarbara/event/marketing-plan-101-create-your-roadmap-success-recorded-webinar or Digital Marketing Recorded Webinar - Create a Marketing Plan - https://www.score.org/santabarbara/event/digital-marketing-recorded-webinar-create-marketing-plan
9. Organize your office space or workspace. – Article - The Magic of Decluttering Your Operations to Boost Business Performance - https://www.score.org/sanluisobispo/resource/blog-post/magic-decluttering-your-operations-boost-business-performance
10. Organize your email inbox. – Recorded webinar. - Solutions for Drowning in Data - https://www.score.org/fairfieldcounty/event/webinar-solutions-drowning-data
11. Update your website. - Recorded webinar. -  Win Customers With Your Website - https://www.score.org/event/win-customers-your-website-1
12. Update your social media profiles. - Recorded webinar. - Capture Customers & Build Brands thru Social Media - https://www.score.org/lancaster-lebanon/event/capture-customers-build-brands-thru-social-media-1
13. Update your network. Remember, the right networks will increase your net worth. - Recorded Webinar. - Networking Like A Pro: How To Get Business From Networking - https://www.score.org/fairfieldcounty/event/february-23-networking-pro-how-get-business-networking-0
14. Get automated. – Recorded webinar. - 6 Creative Ways to Use Automation - https://www.score.org/midflorida/event/6-creative-ways-use-automation-1
15. Get a business coach/mentor. Find a mentor here: https://www.score.org/find-mentor

SCORE Delaware has positioned itself to empower, enable and equip all small businesses for continuous success. Feeling empowered? Awesome Sauce! Contact SCORE Delaware (website: https://www.score.org/delaware) TODAY to help you spring clean your business or visit SCORE’s library of resources to help you spring into action at https://www.score.org/get-business-training. Still need more resources, visit the free learning platform, ASCENT (website: https://ascent.sba.gov/). Ascent is an SBA powered learning platform that offers in-depth information to help you grow your business. Purposefully, designed to help women entrepreneurs the Ascent platform is open to all entrepreneurs.

Happy Leading, Learning and Winning on Purpose!

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