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.
Jackie Nagel, Synnovatia
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.
Are You a Pushover in your Small Business?
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?
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!
Women Business Owners: What You Need to Succeed
Running a business in today’s fast-paced environment is overwhelming. For women business owners, running a business is even more stressful as we strive to balance the demands and aspirations of our business with the stressors and cravings of our personal and family life.