#0077 My Business BROKE My Heart
Not unlike LOVE in the traditional sense, the PASSION can go out of your relationship with your Business. I just DON’T Love it anymore Passion, Love, Desire, LUST, Drive, Charisma, Lure….GONE Don’t worry, there are…
Tag: Achieving your Goals
#0076 Old School SALES
There is often heated DEBATE about what is the most effective Sales Style. Some prefer old school, some NEW age techniques. Some are lost somewhere in-between. The truth is no one style is SUPERIOR than others,…
#0075 How to IMPROVE your Cash Flow
I’d like to SHARE a strategy to help turn your cash flow issues around. Make MORE Sales… Let me be MORE Specific, make more CONSISTENT sales – The KEY word is consistent. Sorry for being…
#0074 Cash Flow TIGHT?
Cash is the lifeblood of every business no matter WHAT size and the abundance or LACK of, is what truly makes the difference between a SUCCESS and a failed business. Cash allows you to INVEST…
#0072 Bright SHINY Objects
It is so easy to be DISTRACTED in this day and age. With so many things vying for our ATTENTION. Email, Phones, Employees, Customers, Facebook, Twitter, the Internet in general, must have gadgets and the…
#0071 Move your Arms FASTER
I once heard that Sprint Coaches tell their athletes to move their arms FASTER which in turn makes theirs legs go faster to keep up allowing them to run faster. BRILLIANT. Running a Business is…
#0070 Post New Year BLUES
Its only a few weeks into the New Year and I already sense that the initial ENTHUSIASM Tsunami I experienced from Entrepreneurs I met early in the year has already SUBSIDED to a mere stream. We…
#0068 Clear Message
How many times have you been ASKED “So what do you do?” More times than you could count I’m sure. So let me ask you this “How clear and CONSISTENT is your response?” KEEP CLEAR…
#0067 Step BACK and Observe
Way too many of us get HUNG up on the day to day. We spend all of our time keeping the wheels spinning with BARELY a moment to rest let alone work on our STRATEGY….
#0065 Leave it Till the LAST Minute
Why is it that we are 10 times MORE Productive when we have a FIXED deadline looming? The Tender that MUST be submitted, the proposal we PROMISED to produce, the presentation we COMMITTED to giving….
#0064 HAPPY to Help
Throughout my Business years I have ALWAYS been the type of person that is ‘Happy to Help‘. It is NOT unusual for me to offer my assistance, express my option or have a viewpoint that…
#0062 Simplifying Marketing
Marketing need not be VooDoo to the Small Business Owner. Nor should Marketing be COMPLICATED, confusing or guesswork. As a Small Business the available funds for Marketing are often LIMITED so we are then tempted…
#0059 Who CARES?
As a Small Business Owner I have been guilty of trying to SELL to anyone who crosses my path. I didn’t care who, what or where. I just wanted to CONVINCE them that they needed…
#0058 How to REDUCE your Outstanding Debtors
Many Entrepreneurs I speak to have a COMMON issue which plagues them, an OUTSTANDING list of DEBTORS that seem impossible to manage. It’s not only affecting their CASH FLOW but is causing them sleepless nights…
#0056 Is it FAILURE or CRITICISM You Fear?
Nobody LIKES to fail but is it really this that is holding you back from MAKING decisions and taking action? I would hazard a guess that you are MORE fearful of what people will think…
#0055 Under Sell, OVER Deliver
For some reason or another, we tend to OVER commit and regularly UNDER deliver. Sometimes its to CLOSE a deal, sometimes to appear BIGGER or better than we really are, sometimes just to save face…
#0054 BREAK the Rules
I speak to many Business owners and the vast MAJORITY of them work very hard with LITTLE gain. They have produced themselves a JOB that if they are lucky PAYS. Some work very hard and…
#0052 Make the Journey PAY
Small Business Owners work HARD. They tend to SACRIFICE many things for the dream. Often at the expense of TIME and INCOME. They INVEST and re-invest to keep building. Pumping every resource into their baby….
#0051 SCRATCH Mine and I’ll Scratch Yours
As a Small Business we often come across OPPORTUNITIES that you can’t do but would LIKE to help your Client with. It’s a GREAT Networking opportunity and also an EXCELLENT potential place to generate LEADS…
#0050 DECISIONS decisions DECISIONS
As the Business owner EVERY day I got questions left right and centre and it was ALWAYS up to me to lead the way. Ask me, bug me, BOTHER me and this went on day…