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Quick Business Tip – If You Only Had The TIME

June 1, 2016

Ok. Let’s get to the point, because you don’t have time to read this. 1. Think of yourself first. 2. Create a default diary for repetetive tasks. 3. Forget about the Task lists. 4. Put all your tasks into the default diary...

Quick Business Tip – How Powerful Is Your Instinct?

May 26, 2016

The best business people out there run on instinct. They make better decisions most of the time. Do they make mistakes? Of course they do. Do they get better results overall? Most of the time. Why is this so? Instinct would be ...

Quick Business Tip – How Not To Waste Your Time Networking.

May 16, 2016

I’m not suggesting for one moment that you should stop networking, but, if you are going to do it, do it well. Classic pitfalls are: Only going once or twice to a particular event that normally is an ongoing commitment, not really wan...

Quick Business Tip – Are Business Partnerships Good?

May 11, 2016

My clients know my position on business partnerships, however, let’s explore the pros and cons. Pros: share responsibility share finances time out for holidays b...

Quick Business Tip – What’s Wrong With “The Gift Of The Gab”?

May 4, 2016

All too often I hear business owners say that a particular sales person they know has the “gift of the gab” and they assume that he/she is extremely “salesy” and that they must be good at selling. Quite frankly, that is...

Quick Business Tip – In The Zone

April 28, 2016

Remember the days when you were on top of the world whilst running your business? How do you bottle that up and repeat it? You must think of the environment. What was the environment that you were in that made that possible? More importa...

Quick Business Tip – Who Is Your Competition?

April 8, 2016

Do you really know your competition? What is the genuine size of your market that you compete in? Do you or should you really care? The important thing to know is that whatever the answers are, the main thing you must focus on is giving ...

Quick Business Tip – Sports And Businesses Run The Same.

March 31, 2016

Professional sports these days are run no differently to any business you may think of. Administration is structured the same. However, the less likely analogy is regarding the playing management. Let’s have a look at it now. How does...

Quick Business Tip – Conspiracy Against The Business Owner.

March 15, 2016

Conspiracy against the small business owner happens all the time. How you may ask? Everything is stacked against them: financial, human and time resources are of scarce amounts and the loneliness of not knowing where to turn to for ideas...

Quick Business Tip – Who Dares, Wins

February 23, 2016

Who dares, wins – You’ve heard that one before, but, how does it apply to small business? Risk v Return applies to investments, relationships and business, of course. Ever seen an ugly dude with a beautiful woman? He dared, yes, he f...