Better Business

Are Your Clients Making You Lazy?

I was talking to a friend of mine recently discussing a client she had been working with for many years. She had a major realization that many of us can Read More

It’s Time to Find Out How Our Customers Really Feel About Us?

We are rapidly moving towards a world where buying something needs to be an experience rather than just a simple transaction. Why? Because that’s what we as consumers are demanding. Read More

I Finally Realize What Drives Me as an Entrepreneur

I’ve been asked many times over many years what it is about being an entrepreneur that I like the most? What has been the one thing that drives me forward, Read More

You Can’t Grow Your Business on Promises

I’ve been around the block a few times. Does that mean I’ve got all the answers? Absolutely not, but what I do have is experience and hopefully that means I’ve Read More

Put an End to Writer’s Block Once and For All

One of the biggest challenges for content creators is coming up with ideas for whatever it is they are going to write about or talk about. We tend to think Read More

Small Business Can Learn a Lot From Big Business

  Large corporations spend a lot of money on marketing. They understand just how important it is to add value to their brand, to keep them “top of mind” with Read More

7 Surefire Signs That you Need to Get Out Much More

With more and more of us working from home on a regular basis, new issues are starting to arise that we probably never encountered in the past. One of those Read More

5 Strategies to Help You Say NO to Difficult Clients

A few years back I was going through the “new client” dance with a chap who ran a telecommunications business. The topic turned to expectations, and he stated that he Read More

How Much is Your Monthly Brain Food Budget?

In business most of us are pretty good at allocating money for the bills, things that have to be paid, perhaps buying new equipment, new resources to use around the Read More

BEWARE OF VERTICAL VIDEO SYNDROME (this is hilarious)….

OK, we are all taking more video and using it to promote our businesses and all kinds of other things. But there is a nasty syndrome that has evolved called Read More

Maybe it’s Time to Start a “Drives Me Crazy” Board

We all have those things in our day to day business life that literally drive us crazy. As we encounter them we get that familiar feeling of frustration and angst Read More

Living Hand to Mouth Gets Exhausting After a While

As a marketing freelancer I spent many years waiting for my clients to either confirm a project, start a project, progress a project or even finish a project. It seemed Read More

An 80 Year Old Message On Building Better Relationships

Dale Carnegie was writing motivational books and inspiring tens of thousands of people in the 1930s, his ideas are even more relevant today. Dale Carnegie promoted the importance of being Read More

My Greatest Source of Business Was Right Under My Nose

I had an interesting experience several years ago and it made me realize that many leads are right under your nose. In my office we used to get regular cross-city Read More

10 Ways to Pull Yourself Out of Any Sales Slump

The greatest danger for a sales person is loss of confidence. Anyone who has spent any time selling anything will tell you that from time to time you will hit Read More