Entrepreneurship Training 5: Arm your entrepreneurial brain with data

Mondo Finance Updated on 2024-02-22

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Once the enterprise has the blessing of capital, the business will run quickly. When the business is running, entrepreneurs are easy to fall into the trap of business operation, and then blindly pursue scale and forget about finance, and finally seem to have a lot of sales, but the company is still in business difficulties due to lack of funds, and has to continue to raise funds. In order to avoid this situation, entrepreneurs must be good at using the power of others, and when the business is on the right track, they will hand over some non-core business to trusted people to do, so that they can better focus on their core business. At the same time, we must also learn to arm our business brains with data, guide business decisions through data analysis and insights, and improve operational efficiency and profitability.

In today's digital age, data has become an indispensable resource for business operations. Through data analysis, businesses can better understand market demand, optimize product design and marketing strategies, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, and more. Therefore, entrepreneurs should be data-sensitive, good at obtaining valuable information from data, and applying it to actual operations

Through this training, you will gradually discover the connections and patterns between the data, and you will be more sensitive to changes in sales and gross margins. There may be a lot of software out there that can generate beautiful business analysis reports, but only through manual statistics can you gradually discover the metrics you want and better understand the processes in your business operations, and once you develop this sensitivity to data, you can start to use more advanced tools and techniques to further analyze and optimize sales performance.

Before we look at the sales report, we should focus on some key data that can reflect the real-time state of the business. We should focus on the cash flow of the business. Cash flow is the lifeblood of a business, and if sales are expanding but cash flow is decreasing, then cash flow expectations are the key data to pay attention to. Therefore, before getting the financial sales report, we can understand the cash flow of the enterprise by looking at the income and expenditure, accounts receivable and inventory data of the enterprise. I heard that there was once a person who could judge the change in business performance by simply going to the warehouse every day to look at the thickness of the express delivery order.

In addition to cash flow data, cost change data, and most importantly, customer data of the enterprise, the key data that can reflect the operation of the enterprise can be reflected. Customer data is one of the most important resources for business operations, and by analyzing customer data, we can understand customers' purchasing preferences, needs, and feedback.

Financial data is important, but cold data is already a reflection of past or process operations. Everything that can guide the future is always around the confidence of entrepreneurs. And the numbers alone don't tell us everything. Sometimes, it's not just the numbers that we need, it's the understanding and interpretation of those numbers. For example, now that the loan interest rate and deposit interest rate of LPR have dropped significantly, what is the best choice for the future with the funds to buy real estate or invest in ** or increase corporate investment?

In the digital age, data can reveal trends, futures, and inform our decisions. However, when we rely too much on data, we can fall into the trap of focusing only on data and ignoring the actual situation, or only looking at the superficial numbers and ignoring the people, teams, and organizations behind it. In fact, entrepreneurs need to pay attention not only to internal and external data, but also to pay attention to the management problems and morale of the organization from time to time.

A company's performance decline may not only be due to changes in the market environment, but also due to internal management problems, team instability or product quality problems. In the decision-making process, we not only need to rely on the data and the problems behind it, but also give the team confidence. Only when data and confidence are combined can we make more informed, comprehensive and effective decisions.

Pay attention to Xiao Li Er, and don't make two mistakes in management! Likes, ** is a great encouragement!

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