Ten steps to more customers
As a small business owner, the New Year usually brings a renewed focus and determination for this year to be your best ever. But as we move through the first few weeks, this can fade, old routines...
View ArticleForming good habits
This article looks at how every business owner can use the approach that Dave Brailsford used to win the Tour De France, to make their business even more of a success. Even if you are not particularly...
View ArticleDon’t let fear and self-doubt stop your progress
This article takes a look at how self-doubt and fear can stop us from progressing with our businesses, make us make poor decisions and ultimately stop us from being creative. We can all relate to this...
View ArticleFocus on your process, not on your goals
I have recently finished reading a book by Darren Roberts on ‘How triathlon ruined my life’. It is about Darren’s journey from a fat, bald, northerner (his description of himself!) to deciding to do...
View ArticleThe secret to a successful business
We have all heard the term to be a busy fool and although we don’t want to be branded as one…typically most of us are very good at it! When I talk about being a busy fool I am actually referring to...
View ArticleAll I need is another day in the week!
I have come to the conclusion that the biggest struggle in running your own business or being self-employed is TIME. For lots of business owners I talk to, time is their biggest enemy and they wish...
View ArticleFive top tips for better focus
This week a business client told me that I had brought her ‘renewed focus’ in her business. Previously she had been trying to cater for all customers, be all things to everyone and had forgotten what...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from Mark Zuckerberg?
Whether you love or loath Facebook and whether you like or dislike him as a person, there is no doubting Mark Zuckerberg’s success. He launched Facebook back in 2004 for his fellow Harvard students....
View ArticlePut your customers to work
Just like many small businesses, I am a small business owner trying to compete with bigger companies, huge competition and trying to generate leads. There is only one of me and only so many hours in...
View ArticleWhy you should profile your customers
Whilst most business owners are more than happy to sell their products or services to anyone that cares to pay for them, this can be limiting for future business success! What we really should be doing...
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