Making 2015 Resolutions You Can Keep
With the new year soon to be upon us, it's a time to reflect and and set resolutions for your upcoming successful year. The sad fact is that many people make resolutions only to see them fail. As I'd written in a previous post, "A goal unrealized can have the power to...
Are You Blogging For Your Business?
Blogging is one of those social media "fads" that is not going away. If you ever feel skeptical and wonder if there is any reason for you to be blogging, check our these statistics from Social Media Today about blogging: Seventy percent of consumers find companies...
5 Tips To Stay Ahead Of The Competition
These 5 "tips" are strategies that have made the efforts of many great people grow exponentially. What are you doing to stay ahead of your business competitors? There are steps you can take to edge them out and here are just five of my favorites: Believe - Believe in...
Plan Your 2015 Networking Strategy
2015 is fast approaching and it's the ideal time to make plans for your 2015 networking strategy. Networking events not only help grow your business, but they get you out of the office and meeting new people and exchanging new ideas. Here are tips to assure your...
Write Your Business Bio
If you want to grow your business, one ideal way I have found to do that is through speaking engagements. If you have a niche area of expertise and want to reach an audience -- in a group setting -- that is your ideal client base gathering them all in one room to talk...
Encourage Prospects To Call You Back
When someone calls your office do they reach a real person or an automated voice mail system? Do they have to click through a menu in order to real a live person? If that's the case, you may find that you're turning some of your prospects off. What can you do to...
Measuring Business Success
As business owners we must track and monitor our business efforts so we can tell whether our actual efforts are yielding results. How, though, can you determine what you should be measuring? What are your key performance indicators? That isn't a trick question, but...
Business Success Traits
Is there a secret to success? The beginning entrepreneur would surely hope so, but it's not quite the case. Actually, a study performed by the Harvard Business School -- The Evergreen Project -- found it "doesn't matter what you do." The study uncovered that...
Propel Your Business To New Heights
When you decided to go into business for yourself, you wanted to be a success -- everyone begins with that dream, right? Building momentum toward business greatness can be accomplished in any number of ways. Keep in mind that when you build momentum in any area of...
Do You Have Leadership Qualities?
Entrepreneurs need to embody many traits -- chief among them being, leadership. Whether you're hiring a staff to help you in your business endeavor or whether you're a solopreneur, the traits of leadership cover almost all aspects of a business operation. What is...