Commit

Maximum Time: 5 Minutes

Business Notebook

Unmet Customer Needs

Read:

As a business owner, it’s important for you to be observant and talk to people every day to identify unmet customer needs. Each day this week, record in your business notebook any unmet customer needs you observe. Create a list of your top five unmet customer needs in your business notebook and be prepared to share them with the group next week.

Competitive Advantages

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It’s also important for you to notice competitive advantages. This week, select five different businesses in your community that interest you and think about the specific competitive advantages they have. Record these advantages in your business notebook and be prepared to share them with the group next week.

Read each of the commitments below with your action partner. Your ability to succeed in starting or growing your business will dramatically improve as you diligently keep your weekly commitments. Promise to keep your commitments and then sign below.

My Commitments
A. I will keep the “My Foundation” commitments for this week: Show my faith this Sunday by keeping the Sabbath day holy and reverently partaking of the sacrament. Read from the Book of Mormon every day. Read the “Scriptures about Faith in Action” in the “My Foundation” section of this chapter. Choose one and share it with my family or friends.
B. I will create a list of five unmet customer needs in my business notebook.
C. I will create a list of competitive advantages for five different businesses in my business notebook.
D. I will review my “Ponder” page and keep the commitments.
E. I will contact and support my action partner.

Remember that next week, you will be asked to report the number of days that you talked with customers and wrote in your business notebook (see the “Evaluating My Efforts” chart in the beginning of the book).

My signature

Action partner’s signature

Have a closing prayer.