Winning Customers
Love what you do but hate to have to do the selling? If you want to win customers and grow your business, you must learn to sell. It’s a do or die scenario.
Taking Care Of Business
If you’re an Elvis Presley fan (or old enough of have heard of him), you would know that he adopted “Taking Care of Business in a Flash” as his motto. The logo TCB with the lightning flash can be seen on a lot of Elvis Presley memorabilia. On some merchandise, it...
Escape From The Struggle Zone
Last week I wrote a fairly extensive article on the Entrepreneur’s Journey and how 70-80% of businesses in the struggle zone never ever escape from here. Many business owners get disillusioned and go back to being an employee, never ever to talk about their dreams...
The Entrepreneur’s Journey
So many start their entrepreneur’s journey expecting this to be one wonderful ride to success. What can you really expect to meet on your journey?
Marketing Today
Marketing today is no different to marketing yesterday. “Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. If you want to grow your business, you must DO strategic marketing. It’s not a case of just throwing it out there and hoping that something sticks. You...
Building Your Brand
When we talk about brand, we tend to think of businesses. We think of the big brand companies such as Coca Cola, Macdonalds, Nike and Apple. However, as a SME (small medium enterprise), building your business brand starts with you. You ARE your business. Your business...
Doing Business After Covid-19
There is no doubt in my mind at all that doing business after Covid-19 will be very different to doing business before Covid-19. How will this look? As a business mentor, my role is to look forward, consider the possibilities and help my clients navigate that path....
People Challenge
The People Challenge would definitely have to rank up there in the list of things that causes frustration and stress to the business owner. After I sold my accounting practice in 2001, I promised myself that I would NEVER ever have employees again. I will just work...