So, you want to start working with clients - great! Depending on who you listen to, there's so much you need to do in order to successfully launch your business. It doesn't seem to matter whether you're a life coach, business consultant or holistic healer, launching a successful business takes … Read more about 4 Simple Questions to Help You Start & Grow Your Business
What Confucius Has to Say About Running Your Business
I love philosophy. I think it's because I love to contemplate the nature of things. And that's what philosophy is ultimately about - studying the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Studying philosophy makes you think. It opens and expands your mind to all sorts of different, … Read more about What Confucius Has to Say About Running Your Business
Why Being Unreasonable Can Lead To Success
George Bernard Shaw once said:"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man." If Mr. Shaw is correct (and I think he is) then all progress - hence all success - … Read more about Why Being Unreasonable Can Lead To Success
What You're Not Measuring In Your Business Doesn't Exist
Are you one of those business owners who's not tracking your business activity, tracking your marketing or recording how you spend your time each day working on your business? If you are - you're certainly not alone. Very few small business owners are measuring their business activity these days - … Read more about What You're Not Measuring In Your Business Doesn't Exist
Small Business Management Tips: The Art of Being a Small Business Owner
Running is a small business is as much an art as it is a skill - perhaps even more so. Certainly you can approach your business as though it's a set of skills you learn and then implement. Yet I've found, for myself at least, that running my business like this has no life. You can create success … Read more about Small Business Management Tips: The Art of Being a Small Business Owner
Small Business Advice: Consider The Quality of Your Work
I have a friend, Larry, who's a pretty amazing woodworker. Larry apprenticed with a woodworker in Seattle for seven years and then struck out on his own. As Larry had an eye for detail the master woodworker he apprenticed with convinced him that he should build highly customized, one-of-a-kind … Read more about Small Business Advice: Consider The Quality of Your Work
Consumer Choice: Give Small Business Customers Simple Choices
Is choice a good thing? Walk through any supermarket here in the U.S and you'll find tons of choices. Want a simple can of soup, you have to wade through 15 different brands of chicken noodle. Or toothpaste, or cereal, or ice cream. Heck, we even have to make a choice between ketchup … Read more about Consumer Choice: Give Small Business Customers Simple Choices
How to Create Information Products With Your Blog
People want what you know! They want your stories, your perspectives, your perceptions and your ideas. And in some cases they want your help or they want to learn how to do what you know. Either way, they appreciate the value your blog adds to their life or their business. The value, after all, … Read more about How to Create Information Products With Your Blog
Small Business Advice: Focus on What Matters Most
Before he passed, my grandfather used to teach me many things - about sports, about nature, about gardening, and about life. He was a very learned man who at one point read every volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover just to learn. I remember much from our conversations - though … Read more about Small Business Advice: Focus on What Matters Most
Small Business Marketing: Why the Market Decides Your Success
If you run a small business you're likely making decisions all the time. If it's not what product to develop it's where to publicize your business. Or perhaps you're considering hiring a virtual assistant or looking for a joint venture partner. Either way, you're business is forcing you to make … Read more about Small Business Marketing: Why the Market Decides Your Success
Small Business Advice: Learn How to Change Quickly
People ask me all the time how do I grow my business? The answer is always quite simple, really. So simple that it can be answered in one word - change. Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Yet how many of us can say … Read more about Small Business Advice: Learn How to Change Quickly
Successful Business Advice: Love Your Customers
Business is not just about what you do. Yet, as business owners, we spend so much of our time focusing on how to do what we do better. We read, we blog, we train, we attend workshops and conferences, go to events, network and so on. All under the guise that we can gain some edge in how we do what … Read more about Successful Business Advice: Love Your Customers