Building the SBDC

Competitive Advantage

Michael RoesslerSmall Business Programs

Initiative Director

40% Budget Allocation

• Designing your budget ($$$)• Allocating dollars to meet milestones

($$$ to hours)• Tracking of time into CATS

• Collection of Economic Impact

Systems

Find clientsScreen clients

Schedule ClientsHelp ClientsTrack Clients

What is “Competitive Advantage”?

Traits That Lead to Success

Richard St. JohnInterviewed 500 Successful People

8 Traits that Lead to Great Success

8 Traits to Great

PassionSuccessful people love what they do. They

chase passion, not money, and the money comes anyway. It can take a long time to discover your

passion.

8 Traits to Great

Work Work very hard. All successful people work their butts off. It doesn’t come easy to anyone. But

they love it, so it’s not work, it’s fun. They’re not workaholics, they’re WorkaFrolics™

8 Traits to Great

Focus You can’t do a million things well, so focus long-term on only one thing and become an expert at it. Short-term, be able to ignore distractions, put

your head down, and concentrate.

8 Traits to Great

Push Successful people keep pushing themselves.

They push through barriers like shyness and self-doubt. They push beyond what’s expected and

push themselves to do the impossible.

8 Traits to Great

Ideas Successful people come up with ideas that

solve problems and take advantage of opportunities. There’s no magic to coming up

with ideas. Anyone can be creative.

8 Traits to Great

Improve Successful people are always improving

themselves and what they do. Getting better at anything is all about practice, practice, practice

and always aiming to do your best.

8 Traits to Great

Serve Successful people serve others something of

value. And not just in a charity sense. If getting rich is what you want, you’ll need to serve other

people something they want.

8 Traits to Great

Persist There’s no overnight success, so we need to

persist through time, as well as failure, mistakes, criticism, rejection, and adversity. Just keep

going and never give up.

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