As we look ahead to 2026, one thing is clear: the digital marketing world isn’t slowing down – but it’s certainly evolving. New technologies, shifting consumer expectations, and an increasingly competitive digital landscape mean that standing still is no longer an option for businesses that want to power up in the year ahead. Moving forward, it’s not about if businesses should evolve, but how they plan to set themselves apart in a crowded digital space.
With this in mind, we asked 50 business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals one simple but insightful question: What’s your business resolution for 2026?
“My business resolution is to scale my impact by helping more entrepreneurs build profitable, sustainable businesses through sharper strategy, real-world education, and high-impact speaking. I want every engagement to deliver measurable growth, not just motivation.”
Nathan Baws, CEO & Founder of NathanBaws.com
“My business resolution for 2026 is to make every performance an experimental lab with authentic audience feedback to hone real-time trust, attention, and amazement levels for tighter material, more profound engagement, and a more human experience for every show.”
Randy Charach, Corporate Magician and Mentalist
“My business New Year’s Resolution for 2026 is to focus on and challenging myself to be better at equipping and challenging and encouraging my team to take on and own more of our business initiatives rather than continuing to fall into the trap of trying to do it all myself.”
Jerry Hoffman, Founder of Smart Ass Products, LLC
“In 2026, OysterLink aims to expand our platform features to help even more hospitality professionals find their dream roles through better AI matching and career resources. Our resolution is to reduce the hiring time for restaurant and hotel owners by providing more transparent and efficient recruitment tools.”
Milos Eric, Co-Founder of OysterLink
“My business New Year’s resolution is to grow my email traffic by at least 5x this year, so my business is less reliant on organic traffic. Email seems to be one of the few ways I can control independently of algorithms, so I want to continue leaning into it.”
Jessica Randhawa, Creative Director at The Forked Spoon LLC
“My 2026 business resolution is to help 1,000 women entrepreneurs move from invisible to undeniable. Instead of chasing algorithms or trends, I’m committing to surround-sound authority — getting women seen, sought, and cited in places that already carry trust. The goal isn’t more noise. It’s better placement. When authority leads, opportunities follow.”
B. Michelle Pippin, Founder of wowX Visibility Gym
“My business New Year’s resolution for 2026 is to shift from reactive reporting to predictive, automated decision-making in pricing and demand forecasting, using real-time data to improve margins, resource utilization, and operational efficiency across both B2C and B2B services.”
Alexandr Caragheorghi, Business Analyst at 8Rental
“My business-related New Year’s resolution for 2026 is to further scale Blaze PR’s impact by helping more purpose-driven consumer and B2B brands break through with smarter storytelling, measurable results, and authentic connections in an increasingly AI-driven media landscape.”
Matt Kovacs, President of Blaze PR
“My 2026 business resolution is to shorten our quote-to-proof timeline and continue building a steady pipeline through SEO and email, so we’re less dependent on ad swings.”
Eric Turney, Sales/Marketing Director and President at The Monterey Company
“In 2026, continuing with our tradition of medical collaboration, we will launch a clinician-data partnership program. Building on an anonymized, aggregated set of the patient success data over 30 years in our specialized nutrition business, this program will assist partner clinics to perfect protocols and deliver better long-term patient outcomes by taking a deeper therapeutic partnership approach, one that goes beyond supply to enable improved management.”
Dr. Kevin Huffman, CEO & Founder of Ambari Nutrition
“My New Year’s resolution is to evolve my product team from being feature builders to becoming expert social greenkeepers. We will focus less on engineering matches and more on cultivating the digital conditions through thoughtful product design and AI, where authentic human connection can organically take root and flourish.”
Isabella Rossi, CPO at Fruzo
“In 2026, I plan to pursue the acquisition of another company in an area where we have not been before, to introduce a new product or service, and improve our visibility with consumers. I also plan to produce more interactive, visually appealing content that showcases our products and inspires our customers to increase brand awareness and attract more people to our brand.”
Josh Qian, COO and Co-Founder of LINQ Kitchen
“My resolution for 2026 is to double down on empowering small businesses and freelancers by expanding access to practical AI and SEO tools through Legiit. I want to ensure that entrepreneurs can compete globally with the same efficiency and insight as enterprise players.”
Chris M. Walker, Founder of Legiit
“One of my business-related resolutions for 2026 is to become a bigger voice nationally in the real estate industry. We really want 2026 to be the year of significant growth and solidifying our position in the industry.”
Seamus Nally, CEO of TurboTenant
“My business resolution for 2026 is to integrate advanced artificial intelligence and automation tools to make the tax filing experience more intuitive and less stressful for our users. We also plan to develop straightforward educational resources that simplify complex tax concepts, empowering people to plan their finances proactively throughout the year rather than scrambling to stay compliant during tax season.”
Geoff Knight, Founder & CEO of FileTax.com
“We want to grow our social media following in 2026. We have some new strategies we want to try to implement, with the goal of growing our following and expanding our reach.”
Steve Corcoran, CEO of Lawn Love
“One resolution I have for my business next year is to do more outreach. This includes both cold outreach and intentionally connecting with our existing customers, because we really want to be a business that focuses on genuine connection.”
Steve Schwab, CEO of Casago
“In 2026, my resolution is to utilize AI to significantly amplify our 24-year data recovery expertise to benefit our customers, partners, and businesses worldwide.”
Chongwei Chen, President and CEO of DataNumen, Inc.
“For my business, one big resolution we have is to really invest in our employees in 2026. We want to focus on making sure that we are giving them not only a good environment to work in but that we are helping them grow and achieve their goals.”
Adam Hamilton, CEO of REI Hub
“My 2026 business resolution is to add a new revenue stream by releasing a new product called orthopedic insole that customers can attach to their other shoes. We’ll partner with podiatrists to create insoles for foot health issues such as Morton’s neuroma and plantar fasciitis to help alleviate these conditions and provide comfort.”
Matthew Tran, Engineer and Founder of Birchbury
“Next year, I’m moving beyond simple automation to pioneer empathic automation, where we will use AI to analyze team morale and customer sentiment, proactively shaping projects and products that foster genuine well-being and connection. My goal is to measure our tech’s success not just in revenue, but in the tail wags and team smiles it creates.”
Garrett Yamasaki, CEO of WeLoveDoodles
“My resolution for 2026 is to try out at least 3 new tools for our current cross-functional workflows. The aim is to take up experimental decisions to expand the business innovatively.”
Rohit Agarwal, Co-Founder of Zenius
“Based on my capabilities of developing content, my 2026 business resolution is to reduce content creation waste by 25 percent by eliminating unvalidated concepts from the production queue. By omitting unverified concepts from the production list in 2026 there will not be any content produced unless verified from an empirical analysis or informed judgment, that there is an established audience demand, and there will be an improved outcome of marketing dollars spent.”
Jason Vaught, Director of Content & Marketing at SmashBrand
“I have established my 2026 business goal of growing our disciplined and sustainable business model through strategic retail partnerships with the end goal of allowing more golfers to practice regularly and more meaningfully.”
Katie Breaker, Sales Director for BirdieBall Golf
“My New Year’s Resolution for 2026 is to create opportunities for Maadho on international stages with the intention of creating new profitable markets, which will show that profit can be created while at the same time promoting positive environmental design.”
Jesse Singh, Founder and CEO of Maadho
“My business resolution for 2026 is to think of sustainability as a cost strategy. I’ll concentrate on using materials and working with suppliers that lower our costs while improving our products’ durability and making them more sustainable for the environment.”
Anh Ly, Founder, and CEO of Mim Concept
“Our resolution for 2026 is to decentralize decision-making as much as possible. We want to limit the amount of stuff that goes through top leadership because our long-term goal is to build a business that scales through mutual trust and ownership. In other words, we want to eliminate constant oversight.”
John Beaver, Founder of Desky
“Our goal for 2026 is to shift medical imaging away from being reactively used and instead increase its use predictively by moving it upstream (into predictive analysis/disease prediction). Using predictive analytics we are “catching” disease at its early stages rather than waiting until they become large enough to get our attention.”
Dr. Jason Schroder, Medical Director and Co-Founder of Craft Body Scan
“In 2026, my top business resolution is to deepen our community engagement both online and offline—focusing on authenticity and agility as content consumption habits evolve. We’re committed to being early adopters of new technology platforms, ensuring our editorial voice remains influential as media trends and digital audiences shift. Building trust and relevance will always take priority over chasing algorithms.”
Scott Purcell, Co-Founder of Man of Many
“My New Year’s Resolution this year is to sign exclusive partnership agreements with at least three of the premier Yarra Valley properties in an attempt to put an end to the current lack of High End Vineyard availability in the area. By securing these venues I am also removing the logistical difficulties of “searching for a date” for my clients and allowing them to skip directly from inquiry to aesthetic design as opposed to having to wait approximately three months for the venue.”
Nicole Robins, Wedding Planner at Ever After Weddings
“My New Year’s Resolution for my business is to establish stronger relationships with all of my partners and implement smarter logistics technologies so that we can continue to provide our clients with more transparent, faster shipments and reduce the amount of stress involved with using our services.”
Allan Hou, Sales Director of TSL Australia
“My business resolution for 2026 is to focus less on chasing every opportunity and more on building long-term strategies that actually compound over time. I want to create work that drives real results, not just short-term wins.”
Kate Ross, Marketing Specialist at Irresistible Me
“My business resolution for 2026 is to refine all internal dispatching procedures to have an additional 20% per day of service availability. I believe that through improving this back-end logistics will enable us to provide a higher quality of service to our customers and continue to grow to be known as a household name in Sydney.”
Emily Demirdonder, Director of Operations & Marketing at Proximity Plumbing
“By 2026, one of my goals will be to expand our digital offerings in terms of teacher training and add additional modules, more inclusive of Ayurvedic education to each of our digital curriculum. We anticipate that the expansion of the program will result in over 6000 graduates from the teacher training program at the end of this year. Ultimately, our vision is to provide access to the wellness traditions of Ayurveda to a broader audience globally.”
Meera Watts, CEO and Founder of Siddhi Yoga
“Our business resolution for 2026 is to end the loss of an estimated 20% of potential profit by completely automating our quoting process with the help of AI to remove calculation errors by human beings. We will have smart software to instantly cross-reference the current material costs and labor rates to ensure every bid is correct and we eliminate the financial frustration of underbidding jobs.”
Adam Bushell, the Director and Electrician at AB Electrical & Communications
“For 2026, my business resolution is to sharpen our focus on building sustainable growth by prioritizing high-impact initiatives, optimizing workflows, and investing in team development. The goal is to achieve more with clarity and purpose, rather than simply doing more.”
Cristian-Ovidiu Marin, CEO of OnlineGames.io
“We’re hoping to expand to some new regions in 2026. 2025 has been a great year of growth for us, and we want to make the most of that by expanding our reach.”
Carr Lanphier, CEO of Improovy
“My business-related New Year’s resolution for 2026 is to make packaging feel less intimidating for first-time founders. I want to turn what usually feels like a complex production process into something small brands can follow without second guessing themselves.”
Autumna Qian, Founder of LeafPackage
“In 2026, I’ll use AI tools to better assess patients before surgery and follow up afterward. These tools will help us reduce complications and coordinate our schedules in real time. We will also use AI to guide which procedures will give the best results and present other options for better patient satisfaction and success.”
Dr. David Ghozland, Owner of David Ghozland MD
“I’m going to have fewer opinions and form conclusions more quickly. In fact, I’m limiting the feedback loop to a single round, so anything beyond that is procrastination by another name.”
Blaz Korosec, Chief Executive Officer of Medical Director Co.
“My business objective for 2026 is to aggressively document all of our core educational beliefs into operating procedures in order to assure that our brand identity stays at least 98 percent identical to all five high-end preschool locations as well as the two new international franchises we are planning to open in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. By documenting how our unique enrichment program will be delivered consistently in each market, we can help us achieve our aggressive goal of opening a new flagship student care center in Marine Parade as well as the launch of Lorna Whiston Enrichment School.”
Don Poh, Group CEO of Lorna Whiston Schools
“My business resolution with reference to business in 2026 is to grow my business by actively communicating with the customers to develop awareness of the use of a premeditated tax planning and IRS compliance process. I would also like to stream the internal processes to remove the situation where clients spend less time in record and deductive response and resolution time. I can also spend time researching further on the various learning programs like workshops and online resources that I believe can benefit the clients in anticipating the potential IRS problems and avoiding them before it becomes a liability that is likely to tarnish their financial personality.”
Chad Silver, Founder of Silver Tax Group
“My resolution is to incorporate in-depth pre-wedding audio interviews of every couple because spoken words are what drive the emotional pace of our films. My team sees that by layering up these personal narratives over visual imagery created a much stronger connection for the future generations that will be watching the final cut.”
Adam Gorham, Founder and Creative Director of Adam Gorham Films
“My business resolution for 2026 is to focus more on direct customer outreach. It’s been our most successful growth avenue in 2025, and shifting our focus to this kind of marketing is going to keep us growing strong.”
Jonathan Palley, CEO of QR Codes Unlimited
“For 2026, our main goal is to “professionalize” our operations – to upgrade and standardize systems and processes to allow us to continue our growth without losing the exceptional service that’s most responsible for our growth and success.”
David Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder of LXD Logistics
“I want to deepen the personal connection we have with our clients so the process of getting a treatment with us becomes a ritual for confidence. I’m going to be making sure that each of our treatments not only shape their appearance but also boost how they feel about themselves in the year to come.”
Stacey Tapping, CEO & Owner at Beauty Sculpting Room
“My focus in 2026 is protecting the standard of our work as demand increases. This means saying no to projects that don’t allow us the time or care we’re expected to provide, and doubling down on pieces we’d be proud to put our name on for decades.”
Matthew O’Grady, Director and Co-Founder of Thomas Matthew Kitchens & Furniture
“The hope is to be able to keep on running a tight and dependable operation in the year to come, without cutting corners or changing how we show up for customers. We’re going to be focusing on scheduling discipline and improved quality control on every project, big or small.”
Reuben Wilt, Owner of Pool Screen Repair Tampa Bay
“2026 will be all about the people behind every case. We’re committed to deepening our focus on making sure that their voices are heard and their stories drive meaningful results. Our mantra has always been about fighting not just for compensation but for real justice in our community.”
Paul Koenigsberg, Koenigsberg & Associates
“My business resolution for 2026 is to operate with more intentional restraint. My goal is to design simple systems that give my team more ownership and focus. I want to achieve sustainable business growth by doing less exceptionally well.”
Aaron Weiss, Co-Founder & CEO at Cowboy Pools
Turning Resolutions into Reality
What stands out most from these 2026 business resolutions is one prevailing theme: growth with purpose. Whether it’s doubling down on brand clarity, embracing data-driven marketing, investing in people, or working smarter (not just harder), today’s leaders are setting goals that balance ambition with intention and a laser focus on that next level.
2026 will belong to businesses willing to adapt, experiment, and communicate their value clearly in a crowded digital world, and we’re here to help you make that possible. A smarter, stronger 2026 is only a click away – contact us and let’s turn your 2026 business resolution into reality.
