By Maren Kate

It’s April Fool’s Day! Have you played a mean-spirited joke on someone you love yet? All “jokes” aside, April 1st is an important day for those on the quest to be self made. It’s the first day of the second quarter of the business year and whether you’re a fortune 500 or a scrappy virtual startup it’s vital that you start setting quarterly goals that will encourage you to push the limits and gauge your businesses’ health along the way.

Quarterly Goals

I like to set only 3 overarching quarterly goals, this way it’s not complicated and it forces me to focus on the top 3 things that matter to my businesses’ success and profitability the most. Three goals per quarter roughly breaks down to a goal a month, which many say... More...