If you’re looking to disrupt, stay ahead, and build a sustainable future for your business, let’s explore three critical ways you can approach this, starting from within.
1. Disruption Starts With You: The Inside-Out Approach
True disruption doesn’t happen by simply looking outwards and hoping for external changes to benefit you. It begins with you. What are you personally prepared to do differently? How will you change your thinking? What new skills will you need to adapt and improvise? Because within your business, and subsequently your industry, it all starts with you.
Often, the most uncomfortable but essential first step is to question your core beliefs. What beliefs do you hold about your current business? About your customers? About money, financials, hiring, and retaining great people? Challenging your existing thinking creates a ripple effect that extends throughout your entire business.
2. Shift and Change Your Business Processes
Now, let’s turn our attention to your business itself. What are you prepared to shift and change to do differently there? Do you have processes that are due for a review and an overhaul?
At ProTrade United, we’re currently undergoing this very exercise. We’ve been operating in a certain way for a significant period, and we recognized the need to shake things up. By disrupting our own internal processes, we know we’ll enhance the delivery of our services to clients and elevate our standards, both internally and externally. When you shift and change things internally, you’ll see that positive ripple effect reach your customer base, your clients, your marketing, and even your sales approach.
3. Disrupt Your Industry: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
Finally, are you prepared to disrupt and do things differently within your industry? Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone and challenge the way you’ve always shown up? Do you want to blend in with everyone else and hope for the best, or are you prepared to lean into the edge and disrupt, so people actually start looking at you as an industry leader?
These are important questions to consider for yourself. Ultimately, at ProTrade United, our mission is to work side-by-side with you, helping you disrupt from the inside out. Our goal is to empower you to build a more sustainable, profitable, and long-term successful business in this ever-changing world.