8 Negotiation Skills Small Business Owners Should Know An often overlooked skill in small business is negotiation. Your business will need to interact and make deals with other businesses and sometimes shrewd high end customers or clients to succeed. If you lack the proper negotiation skills, you will continue to be on the losing end […]
Work Smarter and Not Harder
How Can I Work Smarter and Not Harder? Many people mistake being busy with being productive. But being productive means that you deliver results in a timely manner. If you want to be more productive and focus on impact without working harder or you are already overwhelmed by how hard you are working, you’ll need […]
5 Steps of Successful Habit Formation
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by doing his actions; we are we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Will Durant, […]
Five Effective Ways to Provoke Inspiration
Lost for inspiration? Have you been cooped up inside for too long? Here are five techniques you can use to try and coax something new and exciting out of your brain! They won’t always work, but give them a go, and you might just be surprised. Go for a Walk Walks are inspiring for a […]
One Thing You Can Do To Stop Procrastinating
Stop Procrastinating Are you a procrastinator? Were you the kid that would study for a big test the night before and get homework done on the way to school? It’s nothing to be proud of, but we all have our moments of procrastination. Here’s a simple little life hack to stop procrastinating and getting stuff […]
One Thing You Can Do To Be More Disciplined
Be More Disciplined Discipline is something we are taught from an early age, but as we start to grow up, we we tend to fight it and eventually become pretty lax about it. Then something interesting happens. You start to realize that there are a lot of benefits to being more disciplined. The main one […]
Work on Your Small Business Not In it
No Time and The E-Myth A common objection I get from small business owners, even after they admit that they need help, is that they don’t have the time. They go on and on explaining to me all the projects and activities they have going on in addition to their regular “job” activities running the […]
Converting Customers to Regulars
5 Tips For Turning New Customers Into Regulars Converting New Customers to Regulars You always hear the phrase that it is more valuable to have one repeat customer than ten new ones. While this might not be entirely accurate in numbers, the sentiment is true. No one knows the exact value of retained versus acquired […]
Lessons From First Job
You’re Outta There! Lessons From My First Job. Summer is upon us. The ballfields are filled with baseball players and softball players not only learning sports lessons, but life lessons as well. This got me thinking about my first job. When I was younger, 14 to be exact, I started my first job. I was an umpire […]
Hail Yes, Distractions are Costing you
Distractions Beat the Best of Us Two weekends ago, my son’s lacrosse team that I coach, was playing in the hail. At first the boys on the team we’re all excited for the haill. They were jumping around and whooping and hollering. Playing in hail was a new experience for them and it completely distracted them. […]
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