October 26, 2016
Ever wondered what is the trigger point for getting out of your business? Is the best time when your heart is no longer in it? There is no way that you will do yourself or your business any service if you do things half-hearted. If you w...
October 3, 2016
So, the business is growing, sometimes out of control and you wonder what’s important to measure to make sure you don’t take your eye off the ball. On average, I find that the majority of small business owners measure the balance of ...
September 22, 2016
Recently I spoke about the effective way of using your instinct to become a great business person. This is not to be confused with the cowboy attitude that whatever you touch will turn into gold. I call it “Ego Suicide”. Business own...
July 12, 2016
What are the best ways of getting referrals? There are client referrals and there’s also referrals from family and friends. With client referrals it’s quite simple: Do a great job for them, th...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...