#0102 Write for ONE Person, Attract MANY
I can’t tell you the number of websites I’ve visited, brochures I’ve been handed and presentations I’ve ENDURED. Sadly, a vast majority of them I walk away none the wiser as to WHAT they actually…
Tag: how to make more money
#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…
#0087 Irresistible Offers
If you’re in Small Business CHANCES are these days you probably have some sort of Website. I’m also guessing that it’s NOT that sophisticated, most likely needs UPDATING and you have no real idea if…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#0049 Make me Feel WARM Inside
You know that FEELING you get when you see an old friend and they give you a HUG. When you catch a WARM Smile from your Grandma. WHEN your kids say “I Love you Daddy”…
#0048 One Step AHEAD
If you can ANTICIPATE what your Customers next need/want is, AND you can provide this to them before they ask, then you have reached the HOLY GRAIL of Customer Service. It doesn’t have to be…
#0045 Bring out your Inner Child
When we were CHILDREN it was easy to look at a cardboard box and see anything but. It was an AEROPLANE, it was a racing car, it was a castle. As we get older all…