Do you want a successful small business that allows you to provide for yourself, your staff, and reach your financial goals? There is a quick, easy 3 step process for you to get started. Feel like you’re being pulled in a million different directions? You can start today and do it one step at a time. How? By learning how to craft, tell and live your company’s message.

If you own a company you want to have a successful small business, but the days come and go and you find yourself wondering how to be successful. The key isn't doing more of the "right" stuff. The key is seizing the "right" moments - or letting them seize you.

Have you seen the movie “Boyhood?” Critics are saying it’s making cinematic history. It was filmed over 12 years with the same cast. You watch them age naturally and experience life right before your eyes. It definitely struck a chord with me, so much so that I started to think about how the lessons it taught were even applicable to inbound marketing.

Think of your Monday morning method. The alarm clock goes off at the same time as last week. You eat the same breakfast. You drive the same route. You drink the same coffee. You settle into the same routine at the office. It sets the tone and routine for the week. You like your Monday morning method, the same one that you do every day, but are you passionate about what you’re doing?

If there was an event that promised you that you would: come together, get inspired, and be remarkable, wouldn’t you want to go? I sure would! And that’s exactly what Inbound 2014, a marketing conference put on by HubSpot in Boston, promises to do. But alas, I will have to settle on living vicariously through my bosses who are representing Half a Bubble Out. Instead, we’re here at The Bubble bringing you the latest tweets, Facebook posts, and blogs about what Mr. & Mrs. Redman are learning about at Inbound.

You never know when you’re going to get the chance to answer a question about internet marketing. The other day I was picking up a prescription at my local pharmacy. Living where I do, it’s no surprise that I knew the pharmacist from a few different circles I’m in, so naturally we had a short catch-up conversation. You know, “how old is your son now? How’s the family?" Yada. Yada. As she was ringing me up she asked, “So are you still working? What is it again that you do?” I told her yes I am, and I read, write, and edit a lot of content, mainly blogs. Her next question was: “Why blog? What’s the point of blogs anyway? I mean I read them, but otherwise, who cares?”

We don’t get to say we don’t want to work. We all need a job. We all need a salary. You probably started your business for the same reason many do – to make a living doing something you’re good at; to provide for yourself and your family. But you can do better. You can have a more profitable company without adding stress and worry. You need systems that work well and generate the provision you need.

Remember that feeling when you were just beginning college? The world was at your fingertips. You could do anything. Be anything. Go anywhere. Maybe you had no idea what that was exactly, but you knew you wanted to create your own successful small business.

You’re an entrepreneur. You have to focus on what needs to be done now so that you can achieve your dreams and have a dollar sign attached to them later. In order to do this, running a successful small business includes two things: passion and provision. If you start focusing today on having both as part of your business you'll actually enjoy going to work. When you’re passionate about what you do it spills over into other areas of your company and helps fulfill the reason you started a small business in the first place: to have more freedom and opportunity.

Systems. Processes. Details. This is what organizational development is made of. It takes a certain type of personality to naturally be good at and even joy these processes and systems. Finding the right person will make your small business successful. The key to this is establishing a business culture as your putting these processes in place. What does that look like?

Many people think all they need is something to “go viral” to grow their business for years to come. While this seems like a quick, easy fix, it’s actually not where you should be focusing your attention. Instead, the key is considering if you’re creating good or bad online content. If you’re producing good content it won’t matter if it goes viral or not. It will be helping your business grow either way.