A movement is budding in the small business sector. Driven by limited resources, such as time and money, small business entrepreneurs are discovering the power of collaboration on the growth of their businesses. In fact, collaboration is the new way to grow your business more quickly.
Month: January 2014
3 Things You Need to do For Your Small Business to Grow
As entrepreneurs, we’re pulled in a million different directions every day. Although we start our days with the best of intention, it’s easy to get pulled off course with emergencies (caused by others) putting out fires (created by others) and shiny objects (marketed by others.) And, even a small course deviation, can change the course of your business over a period of time.
This is a Test! Are Assumptions Derailing Your Small Business Success?
Assumptions have a dramatic effect on our small business success. We behave, as we believe. Therefore, assumptions have far reaching implications. From who’s willing to pay for our products or services to what our business model “should” look like, assumptions sway business behaviors and, subsequently, how the business grows.
How to Attract Your Ideal Client to Your Small Business
When you first launched your small business, you likely were willing to sell anything to anyone at any price, right? You quickly learned you were working for peanuts doing projects you didn’t like for people you liked even less. You then moved into phase two.
Five Steps to Building Financial Reserves for Your Small Business
Small business owners lacking surplus cash stuffed in a mattress or buried in the backyard are anxious, fretful, and stressed. And, rightly so! Anyone who is ever interacted with a financially-desperate, white-knuckled business owner has felt their desperation. It’s not pretty. If the recent volatility in the economy has taught us anything, it’s the need to build financial reserves.
Business Growth Strategy: How to Make Friends with Email
Remember your first days on email? Remember? They were glorious! At the click of a button we could communicate anytime day or night. Ahhh, those were the days! Today, we lose roughly 2.1 hours (28% of our day) to the interruption and distraction of an ineffective strategy for email. It’s time we make email our BFF.
10 Ways Your Small Business Benefits from Strategic Group Coaching
In the years I’ve been coaching small business owners on the strategies and mindset of running a success business much has changed. Technology continues to alter how we work. The changes provided by technology are positive. Thanks to social media, small business stands toe to toe with larger organizations in marketing their products and services without the enormous marketing budgets and staff.
Smart Selling: Ten Tips to Small Business Sales Success
If the thought of “selling” produces instant nausea, it can only mean one thing: loud, fast-talking sales people clad in plaid slacks, striped shirts, and wide ties sporting a food stain was likely your sales experience. Is it any wonder you’re left with a bad taste for selling? Couple that with years of a good economy where products and services literally sold themselves and it’s easy to see how sales systems may be a bit anemic.