With small businesses one fact is true today, your business website should be a central hub for your business. Your business website should effectively represent your brand while providing ways for your leads to easily engage you. All roads in your business should lead back to your website, … Read more about 8 Common & Critical Small Business Website Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make
In Troubled Economic Times, Be Smart & Be Bold
Let's face it, our economy here in the U.S. is in trouble. As a nation, and as individuals, we've out-spent our means and overextended our lives while saving less than ever before in history. And after decades of being inflated, it appears our economy is entering a readjustment period. This isn't, … Read more about In Troubled Economic Times, Be Smart & Be Bold
How Do You Measure Success…and Why You Should
How do you define success in your business? It's a question I ask every client - and most of the prospects I ever speak with. The interesting thing for me is how often the people I speak with don't have a specific answer. Sure, we can come up with just about anything on the fly. Yet it's not … Read more about How Do You Measure Success…and Why You Should
The Simplest, Yet Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Business
As small business owners, we tend to make things so much more complex than they need to be. Think about it. If you run a small business, where do you usually put the majority of your focus? Marketing? generating revenue? Your work with you clients? Things like this? So often the question you have … Read more about The Simplest, Yet Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Business
4 Simple Questions That Make the Difference Between Business Success & Business Duress
Do you consider your coaching business or healing practice successful? Or is your small business causing your duress? If it's the latter, there are steps you can take to help you go from business duress to business success. Last week I introduced 4 simple questions to help you start and grow your … Read more about 4 Simple Questions That Make the Difference Between Business Success & Business Duress
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
How Not To Make The 3 Mistakes I Consistently See on Small Business Websites
If you have a small business website it should serve one purpose - generating sales. Sure, it should inform your visitors of your offers and give them social proof of your abilities through testimonials. Without a doubt, your website should generate and capture leads. And most importantly your … Read more about How Not To Make The 3 Mistakes I Consistently See on Small Business Websites
Need More Clients? Reach Beyond Your Website!
The internet is almost magical. Think about it...you put up a few pages of text on a website and you have the potential for a business. People can view your site, read your copy and decide if they want to work with you. And blogs make it even more magical. You can easily write more content and … Read more about Need More Clients? Reach Beyond Your Website!
Having Trouble Getting More Clients? Consider Yourself Unemployed
Susan is a life coach. She's been working with clients ever since she received her certification. First with a few friends and later with the referrals her friends sent her. Of course one of those referrals taught her about marketing and helped her get a website up. Everything seemed to be going … Read more about Having Trouble Getting More Clients? Consider Yourself Unemployed
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 Tips: Don't Lose Your Client Calendar
Ever lose your client calendar? Well, neither had I...until Friday. By some odd combination of keystrokes, I deleted my client calendar within Apple's iCal. iCal is neat in that I can have multiple calendars that can service different puposes. I have different calendars for family, home, personal … Read more about Small Business Tips: Don't Lose Your Client Calendar
5 Inspirational Quotes For Conversational Blogging
I blog for a number of reasons. The primary reason, however, is to create interesting and engaging conversations with the hope that those conversations turn into long-lasting relationships. And, of course, some of those relationships will turn into business opportunities. But I'm not blogging first … Read more about 5 Inspirational Quotes For Conversational Blogging
