Ever finished the end of your work day with more stuff on your to-do list than when it started? Master this simple technique and that will never be your reality Read More…
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Are Your Customers Trying to Tell You Something Important?
Generally our customers are always giving us clues about what they want. Sometimes they aren’t even clues, they are outright demands and the message is clear, if we don’t come up Read More…
Every Business has Warning Signs Indicating Trouble on the Horizon
I think there are tell tale signs in every kind of business that really send the message that the people running the business don’t care and that means that ultimately Read More…
An Intelligent Way to Sell More of Anything
Anyone can take money from a customer, of course some stores are even replacing people with automated machines for this task, but very few businesses are good at making a Read More…
(VIDEO) The Key to Standing Out from the Crowd
The key to standing out from the crowd is to do the things that others won’t. In life and in business, the most successful individuals are the ones who go Read More…
How Much of Your Time Do You Spend Cleaning Up Business Messes That You’ve Created?
From my experience one of the biggest causes of grief in my businesses over the years has been spending way too much time cleaning up the mess because I didn’t Read More…
Are your freebies financing other people’s dreams?
When a prospective client asks you to work for free ‘while they get things off the ground’ – alarm bells should go off. In this months Flying Solo column I offer Read More…
6 Ways to be Less of a Worrier
For most of my life I was a worrier. I would always worry about what could go wrong, over thinking everything and living in a constant state of stress. The Read More…
It’s the end of financial year again, and I think that spells out opportunity.
OK – the dreaded “End of Financial Year” is around the corner, and often in the Small Business world it is considered more of a pain than anything else. Apart Read More…
Please stop telling me to slow down and start telling me to speed up!
This week in my Smallville article I make a request – please stop telling me to slow down and start telling me to speed up! READ MORE.
Well we are one month into Smallville…
Well we are one month into Smallville today – and in the first month we have had almost 10,000 unique visitors and well over 30,000 page views, which is pretty Read More…
Could you be the client from hell? Well that’s an awkward question….
We all have them, that one client that drives us nuts, the one we can never keep happy and the one that for some reason, never seems to leave. But Read More…
Do manners maketh the entrepreneur?
I certainly think they do. For me good manners are definitely good for business, and they provide a great opportunity to stand out from the pack, as generally, I find Read More…
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We all need to get better at “random acts of thank you”
Yep, how good are you at saying ‘thank you’ to your customers? I’ve been talking about this for years, but today I think it is more important than ever. READ Read More…
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