#0100 Be IN the Moment
Life’s passing us all by at an alarming rate and one thing I hear from most business owners is that they wish they could have more BALANCE in their life. Most people dream of an…
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#0099 Do What You LOVE
Life’s short, so why waste it doing stuff you HATE when you can do so much better doing what you LOVE. Think about it, are you more likely to put in a bigger EFFORT on…
#0092 DESPERATE for Sales
Soooo many Small Business Owners I speak to have the same issue. “We NEED to make MORE Sales” So naturally my question to them is “So WHAT are you currently doing about it?” Sadly the…
#0089 Spend a Day in THEIR Shoes
It’s EASY to forget that your Customers experience with you and your Business can have such a long lasting affect on Repeat Business, Word of Mouth Referrals, Perception, the amount they will pay and what…
#0088 Information NO Longer Equates to Power
Google and the like have done a TREMENDOUS job of “Organising the Worlds Information” So good in fact that @thinkquarterly recently tweeted that “A child with a smart phone has instant access to more information…
#0085 STOP Selling Start Educating
I HATE being sold to by someone who knows nothing of my NEEDS. Cold Callers, First Meetings with Providers, even walking into Stores where people immediately TRY and sell. DON’T Assume you know what we…
#0082 Good Old Customer SERVICE
What happened to it? I remember the days when I’d walk into a store and they were actually HAPPY to see me, as if they had been WAITING all day for my arrival. I’m talking about…
#0080 Abundance or FEAR
Over the years I have noticed two distinct MINDSETS in Small Business Owners. One of Abundance and one of Fear. Unfortunately MOST Entrepreneurs live in Fear Those in FEAR tend to: Be afraid of the…
#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…
#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…
#0063 5 Quick Tips to get back SOME Time
If you added up how much time is WASTED in your day, I’m sure you’d be SHOCKED at how much is Wasted vs Productive. I know from EXPERIENCE that Small Business Owners CRAVE time almost…
#0061 Being UNDER-CUT on Price?
Are your Clients BEATING you down on Price because they can get it CHEAPER somewhere else? Are you losing Deals because they go with a cheaper COMPETITOR? Sure, if you’re in a HIGH margin business…
#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…
#0057 Multitasking is a MYTH
I know, I know, I’m a MAN of course I can’t multitask. But I don’t care what gender you are or how GOOD you THINK you are at Multitasking, it’s NOT making you more Productive….
#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…
#0044 MONEY is not the OBJECTIVE
When I ask NEW Entrepreneurs what their goal is in going into Business, invariably they say to make a million dollars. Money is a means to an END When I ask the same question of…
#0042 Learn from Other Peoples MISTAKES
or better still, learn from their SUCCESSES. Life is WAY too short to learn just from your own mistakes so as part of the CIRCLE of learning why not take a look around you to…