There’s a common trait among small business owners. It’s the sort of quality that gets in the way of achieving what you want from your business. In fact, it makes you dread going to work – in you own business! Can you guess what it is?
Month: January 2014
The 4 Top Unknown Reasons Your Business Needs Goals
Most psychology or business books don’t tell you the many unknown — and essential — reasons your business needs goals. Business goals keep you focused and on track. They provide a way to measure your progress. And, goals provide inspiration long after the mood in which you set them has passed. All in all, the benefits are obvious.
5 Ways to Shift Your Small Business Into Drive
There’s no better feeling than being at the starting gate of a new year. Your engine is revving and you’re raring to go! That is, until you don’t! No matter how much optimism a new year brings to your business, it doesn’t want to budge. Your business is stuck in neutral.
You know the signs well. You can’t seem to bring in enough customers, your overhead continually dwarfs your profits, you’re working longer and harder hours, there’s more to manage and less resources to do so, and your business has no more room to grow.
Small Business Blogging: The Pain and the Promise for Entrepreneurs
Why did I commit to this? That thought gallops across my brain (it is, after all, the year of the horse) as I stare at a blank screen. Then I remember! I committed to blog each day for 30 days because blogging is painful for me. And, I want the pain to stop – or at a minimum, subside to a dull ache!