Is your business feeling the crunch of a slow economy? Last week a client of mine, Kim (name changed to protect the innocent) told me that her business had slowed almost 40% over the past 18 months. As we talked, she explained that she's doing nothing different with her advertising and marketing - … Read more about Small Business Growth Tips to Overcome a Slow Economy
Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of The Economic Crisis
If you're paying attention to the media you know that we're are headlong into some hard economic times. Banks are failing, investment firms are in financial trouble and the housing markets across the nation are suffering. Things are so bad here in Michigan, the state with the worst economy in the … Read more about Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of The Economic Crisis
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
Business Management Advice: Why Your Small Business Needs To Fail
We all want to talk about success in our small business, don't we? How we overcame this obstacle to come out the other end successful. Or how we fought for our vision to create the business we want. The media is filled with stories of how 'one man (or woman) beat the odds and became success.' Yet … Read more about Business Management Advice: Why Your Small Business Needs To Fail
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
What Rocky Balboa Can Teach You About Business
What does it take to be successful in business? I'm guessing you can begin listing a dozen things right off the top of your head. I know I can - clear vision, business plan, marketing plan, metrics, proper positioning in a highly refined niche market, branding, marketing message, growth … Read more about What Rocky Balboa Can Teach You About Business
Why You Should Give Your Business A Chance To Succeed
I have a friend who's been self-employed in one way or another for more than ten years. She's brilliant, caring and a really good communicator. Anyone who works with her immediately sees her huge range of gifts. But this friend of mine - whose name I'm not going to mention - hasn't made much of her … Read more about Why You Should Give Your Business A Chance To Succeed
Small Business Success Advice: Quit
Have you ever considered quitting? Neither had I. But since hearing Seth Godin speak about his book, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches you When to Quit (and When to Stick), last year it's constantly been on my mind. In The Dip, Seth suggests that all successful people know one thing before they … Read more about Small Business Success Advice: Quit
What Does It Mean To Succeed?
What is success? It's always interesting to compare the words success with it's perceived opposite - failure: Success: the accomplishment of an aim or purpose Failure: lack of success source: New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition Those definitions make sense, right? Failure is the opposite … Read more about What Does It Mean To Succeed?
What I Do In The Back Room Behind My Blog :: a one2one conversation
Liz Strauss asked me, Dawud, "When I go to your blog I get the feeling there's a back room behind your blog where you work. What work do you do there?" And so kicked off our one2one conversation. So what am I doing behind my blog? When I'm not rubbing the swollen feet of my pregnant wife, … Read more about What I Do In The Back Room Behind My Blog :: a one2one conversation