{"id":5247,"date":"2020-06-11T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:28:51","slug":"are-you-the-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/are-you-the-bottleneck","title":{"rendered":"Are You The Bottleneck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, we, as business owners, are the slow-down point in our businesses. We are the bottleneck.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/decision-1013752_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Put another way\u2026we\u2019re the problem!<\/p>\n<p>Notice I said we here \u2013 this certainly includes me.<\/p>\n<p>We all do it. We\u2019re the one holding the sales page copy on our desk, while the team is ready to put it up on the website. We have the agreement on our desk that just needs to be signed so the team can execute and implement, but we just haven\u2019t gotten to it\u2026and, it\u2019s been sitting there for over a week\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You know the story, right?<\/p>\n<p>The question is how do you move to the other side of this issue? How do you stop being the bottleneck?<\/p>\n<p>For many, it\u2019s a control issue. And, you have to let go. Delegate some responsibility to others on your team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5250 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/richard-brandson-conferenciantes-1-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/richard-brandson-conferenciantes-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/richard-brandson-conferenciantes-1.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re the visionary\u2026you\u2019re the CEO of your business (or you should be)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does that look like? What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>I love the quote by Richard Branson (who owns more than 300 companies) where he says the desk of the CEO should be clean, so you can have the clarity to think and plan and dream and make the decisions of the visionary you are supposed to be. You can\u2019t do that when your mind (or your desk) are overwhelmed and full of clutter or stacks of paper and things.<\/p>\n<p>Being a visionary\u2026in your life as well as your business. Seems to me, there\u2019s never been a better time for that then now!<\/p>\n<p>What are you holding up in your business right now?<\/p>\n<p>What are you procrastinating about that could be implemented and completed so you can move on to other things? What is sitting there that could be making you money?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have to decide to let go of projects, or things so you can move forward in your business, affect more lives and have a greater impact.<\/p>\n<p>Is that time now for you?<\/p>\n<p>To Your Success \u2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dianesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"73\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, we, as business owners, are the slow-down point in our businesses. We are the bottleneck. Put another way\u2026we\u2019re the problem! Notice I said we here \u2013 this certainly includes me. We all do it. We\u2019re the one holding the sales page copy on our desk, while the team is ready to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/are-you-the-bottleneck\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[29,148,991,13,10,30,687,708,989,990],"class_list":["post-5247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-general","tag-business","tag-business-owner","tag-business-visionary","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-make-more-money-in-your-business","tag-articles-marketing","tag-vision","tag-your-vision"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5252,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}