If you are sick and tired of checking your bank account only to find that it’s always empty, here are 7 ideas that might change that for you. To find Read More…
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How to add excitement to every working day
Let’s be honest, there are times in business when it’s all a bit of a grind; when every day feels like ground hog day. Add a crazy workload into the Read More…
Free E-Book: Are You Ready to Make Your Business Boom in 2017?
A number of our pretty darn awesome Smallville Contributors got together recently and decided that they would love to share their best ideas and strategies for making 2017 a great Read More…
What is Your ‘One Thing’ You’re Going to Stop Doing Next Year?
With the New Year only weeks away, it’s generally the time of year where we start to reflect and plan what we want to achieve in the coming year. Personally Read More…
One day Your Customers Won’t Want What you are Selling
On a recent study tour to Japan, I visited a range of leading manufacturing companies to better understand how they do what they do. In one particular business, which was Read More…
It’s Time to Embrace a Little Spontaneity With Our Customers
Let’s be honest, there is a lot of bad customer service out there. But it doesn’t need to be bad and in fact, it can even be a little ad Read More…
Losing Money Because of This Simple Mistake Is Crazy
A little while back I referred a friend of mine to a web developer who I thought could help her with a new website. A few days later my friend Read More…
Have you Forgotten How to Celebrate Your Successes?
I have had many periods in my life that could only be described as absolutely crazy. Working too hard, taking on too many responsibilities, worrying about too much stuff and Read More…
Are you Strong Enough to Make the Tough Calls in Your Business?
To be successful in business you need to be strong, and rest assured your strength will be tested often. The ways you will be challenged as will vary over time, Read More…
The 10 Biggest and Ugliest Mistakes People Make When Selling
Trying to narrow this list down to ten mistakes was a challenging task. However, based on my observations and experiences, these are the biggest and most common mistakes people make Read More…
A 10 Step Process for Writing Copy That People Will Read
Sitting down to a blank page that you have to put some words on is a daunting task for many people. Even more daunting is the fact that you are Read More…
When you Start a Business Don’t Stop Living
As something of a workaholic, I can attest to the fact that owning and operating a business can become all-consuming. You will have a lot of demands placed on you Read More…
Are You Too Busy for Your Customers?
Happy customers will do more to help your business grow than anything else you can do. When it comes to advertising and marketing, a lot of businesses seem to forget Read More…
Episode 6: How to Be a Good Business for Your Customers and Your Community
In this episode of the Business over Breakfast podcast, we are talking about what it means to be a good business today, in terms of living up to the expectations Read More…
5 Essential Strategies for Becoming a Better Negotiator
Life is all about negotiating. We see young children developing this skill when it comes to eating their greens. We negotiate with them: ‘Eat your broccoli and you can have Read More…
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