Working together could be to your advantage

I was at a networking meeting recently, chatting with a book-keeper and a virtual assistant.  I suggested to them that they consider doing some joint marketing as they have the same target market but are in non-competing businesses.  I left them talking together as ideas started coming thick & fast!

How to create daily success

One of the biggest challenges I see when I coach an entrepreneur is how they manage their time daily.  I can give them all the success strategies in the world, but they won't work if the business owner doesn't make the time to put them into action. If you own a home based business or even if you're starting a home based business, one critical part of success is how  you flow through the day

How to develop a succession plan

Succession planning has come a long way from the days when it usually meant simply putting names in boxes on organization charts. Effective succession planning has evolved to a process by which successors are identified for key positions, and career development and associated activities are planned accordingly. Here are the key steps in developing an effective succession plan...

Do you act or react to your business?

If you are a reactive manager you can adjust your tactics when new situations, complications, and issues arise. However, being reactive means taking action only after the event has happened, while being proactive means being responsive before the event. Proactive and reactive are both valid responses, however when a person is in a reactive state they are forever defensive and anticipating.

Three reasons business owners can't sell their business

Ask any business broker in town, and they will tell you that 85% of listed businesses never sell. There are three reasons why:

Five measures for micro business success

If you could only measure five results in your micro business, to really ramp up its success, what do you think those five measures would be?

It’s a tough call, because in large part it depends on how you define “success” for your business. So how do micro business owners define business success?

ABC's of Selling - The Art of the Close

Do you know how to close a sale? When we think of sales, it usually conjures up images of a used cars salesman and being pressured to buy. If you have ever seen the movie Glen Gary, Glen Ross you get to take a peek into a sales world of the stereotypical sales person. In this movie there are pressures to close the sale regardless of the customer's needs and they are willing to go to any length, ethical or not, to make sure they hit their sales targets

Ensuring your business is strong - Five important things to do every day

The world has so many distractions and it is very easy to become overwhelmed with them rather than the things that will keep your business strong. Five specific things will help you to stay on track if done every day. They only take a few minutes each but have definite rewards.

In celebration of small

The conventional business world is obsessed with big. The prevailing myth is that bigger is better – including the outward appearance of big. The dominant definition of success is that of big money.

If we scratch beneath the surface of big, we find small. There is amazing transformative power in the Small.

7 Ways to stimulate creative thinking

Whether you're an artist, a writer, an online business owner or somewhere in between your efforts likely require a healthy mix of creative thinking. In fact creativity and innovation are crucial for business success or to excel in most any other type vocation.

Realizing the important role creativity plays in your professional efforts it is vital to maintain a continual flow of fresh new creative ideas. Unfortunately we all experience times when this flow slows to a trickle and sometimes even stops.