{"id":777,"date":"2017-07-05T23:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.boston.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&p=777"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T21:20:55","slug":"why-focus-might-be-the-most-important-ingredient-to-growing-your-agency","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/why-focus-might-be-the-most-important-ingredient-to-growing-your-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Why “Focus” Might Be the Most Important Ingredient to Growing Your Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

In HBO\u2019s documentary “Becoming Warren Buffett”, there\u2019s a scene where Buffett and Bill Gates were both asked to write down on a piece of paper the one thing that they each felt contributed most to their success. Surely enough, Buffett and Gates had written the same word down on their respective papers:\u00a0Focus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, when I talk about “focus”, I don’t claim to know how to avoid multitasking or how to ignore distractions like social media, news, politics and other noise that gets in the way of productivity. I could use a lot of help there.<\/p>\n

But what I’ve done successfully and what I will discuss is how to focus your\u00a0business.<\/p>\n

As far as I know, they don’t teach a lot of this stuff in college. (I can’t be 100% certain, as I didn’t spend much time there before dropping out). I spent the first 10 years of emagine’s history kind of flailing – trying to be everything to everyone, anything to anyone. I managed and did fine, but only once I started to focus did the business take a significant turn for the better.<\/p>\n

I will cover the importance of (and how to) focus on:<\/p>\n