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.
Jackie Nagel, Synnovatia
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.
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.