One of the biggest challenges that I have had in life was learning a new job.  Sure, that might not sound so hard, but for me, I love habitual behavior, so learning a new job was pretty scary.

Perhaps the biggest challenge I ever had learning a new job was when I took a job as a business phone systems salesman.  I guess I had used a phone in the past, but I wasn’t prepared for the number of models that were available and that I would have to sell.

The first day of work, I was introduced to many different Nortel business phones and I was expected to know how all of them worked.  I was also required to read some articles on how to maximize phone system resources in organizations – something I had never thought of before.

Thankfully those days are behind me now, but I still dread the idea of learning a new job – it is definitely one of my biggest phobias.

As a business owner, I am most looking for new ways to increase business revenue without doing a whole lot more work. Usually we test out the best ideas to see if they would make a good permanent addition to the services that our printing shop offers.

We’ve had our share of bad ideas, but they are forgotten in light of the better performing ones. Recently, I came up with the idea to expand our aisle runner offerings to include custom aisle runners for our customers.

We were a little worried at first that the customers would not need a custom aisle runner for their wedding, but after a couple of weeks we realized that we made a good business decision.  In fact, the sales of been so good that we’ve been looking at other opportunities within the wedding space to offer our clients.

Later on this afternoon we will be doing a brainstorming session with our staff to see if one of them holds the million dollar idea that would increase our business success.