Proper Delegation
People say that entrepreneurs and small business owners must wear many hats to be successful.
Do You Have Bad Customers?
The Value of Firing (bad) Customers. The person who wrote “the customer is always right” was referring to the golden rule of salesmanship; “to avoid arguing with a customer at all cost”. Behind every customer complaint is another order waiting to happen, the key is practicing the proper method leading to the follow up orders; (Spoiler […]
Three Steps Towards Great Leadership
Unique Leadership Skills Lead to Superior Teams LinkedIn seems to be flooded with information on Leadership Skills, the qualities of a good leader and what it takes to be a good leader. It’s all fairly informative and includes many practices that many great leaders swear by. However, there are also a few leadership-building requirements that […]
Trust Issues
Trust Issues (The good kind) Customers purchase products and services from people they can trust. Good honest people tend to do business and interact with good honest people. These are well known straight up facts. So, here’s the big question: how does a member of the business community build trust quickly? It’s true that building […]
LIVE DANGEROUSLY – Trying New Brainstorming Techniques
When employees enter into a brainstorming session, they are often given a set of rules to follow or an exercise to ensure the employer gets some actionable results. There are numerous published brainstorming rule books widely available that many companies swear by. My suggestion is to adopt a different, even somewhat dangerous approach. Before we […]
Seven Deadly Entrepreneurial Sins
Follow Your Passion Following one’s passion in far too many cases can lead straight to Bankruptcy court. Of course, passion is necessary. Your passion and commitment to success is definitely a requirement to overcome all the obstacles entrepreneurs face every day. However, ensuring there is a market large enough to sustain your business and all […]