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Your bills are piling up. Your website is in its fourth reiteration and you still aren't getting clients. You just discovered that you should be posting articles and doing online press releases but you are running out of time and money. You know you need to build a team so you can get things ...
One of the biggest frustrations of having a business can be managing staff. It’s frustrating to have a team member who is constantly off the mark in terms of what you need from them. This is also one of the easiest problems to solve when you use the right tools that allow you to hire the right people for the right roles the first time – its called a Role Description. When you write your role description, make sure you skip the typical corporate jargon talking about communication, organization and leadership skills.
Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It’s a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and business owners have. William Oncken, author of ...
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to fill a bucket that is full of holes? Imagine for a moment how silly it would be to try and keep the bucket full of water when the water just keeps pouring out the bottom. Well that is what most of us do when we try to leap forward in our growth with a ...
With credit lines diminishing and debt rising, how does one go about paying for all the resources to grow? It’s a common challenge facing many in the entrepreneurial community but it doesn’t have to be the roadblock that keeps you from investing in the right growth opportunities. I’ve faced fear in this area along the way myself, especially when I take a risk that didn’t pay off. And you know what, it happens. As a matter of fact, I had a big one this year. Yep a bone-crushing, mind-melting, heart-sickening failure.
If you were already a millionaire, what would you be doing differently? Got you thinking didn’t I. That’s the power of a question. So really, what would you be doing differently if every day you got up and went about your business as if you were already a millionaire? Most people who come to ...
“Mastermind” is the one of the greatest “secrets” to success. A Mastermind is a group of people who share a common vision and commit to leveraging each other’s brilliance, skills and big thinking to achieve their biggest dreams. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, talked about the ...
How would you like to be able to predict your future outcomes? How about achieve any kind of goal? You may not realize this but you have already perfected a simple formula for consistent, predictable results. So why, you might ask, are you not achieving all of your goals in record ...
Six Ways to Conquer The Isolation Blues I’ve been working from a home office for over 15 years. During my corporate career I was one of those renegades who had to use an old clunky dial up modem so I could replicate my office at home. When I started my own business, I knew I would be 100 times more productive by just walking 10 steps to my in-home office. But after a while I found myself feeling the blues kick in after too much isolation. Working from home is a double-edge
5 Essential Habits to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you ...
Have you ever felt like you were running a rat race? Everything seems like it takes forever, costs 10 times as much as you expected and you still feel like you are a million miles away from achieving your financial goals? That’s because people often approach their financial growth with the ...
7 Keys to Identifying an Ideal Partnership In the world of small business, it seems there is often a common quest: to find the ideal business partner. Usually this stems from a need to “get rid of” the roles or tasks that we struggle with. Like marketing, finance or sales. I know when I first ...
What would you do if you knew that you could change your results in an instant? Would you create more money? More fun? More freedom? The ideal relationship? I'd like to share with you a story about John. John, a real estate agent, listed 2 properties. Three months later John was quite ...
Recently I conducted a survey of entrepreneurs who expressed interest in virtual teams and asked, “What is your single greatest challenge with building a virtual team? Over 64% answered, “Knowing how to pay for a team.” The funny thing is I never questioned whether or not I could afford to ...
Liquid Time: The Secret to Getting It All Done How many times do you end your day with this thought: “Wow I didn’t get anything done” – even though you were busy all day! So what’s going on that causes you to never actually get to your massive to-do list? Obviously your day ran you, instead of you running your day. Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. You probably got interrupted with a billion issues – clients called, your team had questions, something blew up and you