Creating Guiding Principles for Your Team
Every business needs to create guiding principles for their team to live by. You create these principles with your team, even if it is just one other person, or you will create them yourself and share them with each new team prospect. To create these principles, you have to look at what is important to […]
Are You Selling the Right Solutions?
Have you looked at your sales performance lately? What products and services are giving you a good return on the investment in ads, talent, and energy? This will tell you if you are actually selling solutions. Sometimes, your sales numbers can confirm that you are selling the RIGHT solutions to your clients/customers. And sometimes they […]
Qualities of a Great Leader
Are you a born leader? Many of us entrepreneurs are not. We start our businesses as technicians. This means we have a skill, specialty, or trade that we apply to serve our clients. We open our businesses to provide the product or service that stems from that expertise. And, if we don’t launch with a […]
Your Relationship with Money
How is your relationship with money? Are you on the outs or are you intimately engaged? When you own a business, your relationship with money makes a big difference in the success of the company. There have been times when I have met with a client for an hour’s consultation, and within the first twenty […]
Pay Yourself What You’re Worth
Many entrepreneurs don’t value themselves enough. Is that you? Do you pay yourself what you are worth? Once you recognize that you have to be in business to make money or you can’t keep serving your client, some of that money has to come to you. There is no glory in saying “I reinvest everything […]
Do You Know Who Your Ideal Client Avatar Is?
When you wrote your business plan and launched your business, did you create your ideal client avatar? You know, a representation of that perfect client that you would like to have buy your products and services? If you anwered yes, have you updated it lately? If you have no idea what an ideal client looks […]
3 Reasons Your Business Isn’t Producing the Revenue It Could (and Should)
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you started your business to turn a passion into a way to get paid … or because you saw a need in the marketplace you thought you could fill. You probably also wanted to make some great money and build more time freedom into your life. But I bet that’s […]
Are You Selling the Right Solutions?
When is the last time you looked at a report of your revenue line items? How many product and service lines are active in your business, how much do they generate in income, and how much does it cost to generate that income per line item? Think about it: are you selling the right solutions? […]
All Systems Go?
If something were to happen to you or you decided to run off into the sunset tomorrow, would someone be able to come in and run your business? When you leave for vacation, can you say “All Systems Go”? For many who start out and operate as the sole owner/employee of the company during the […]
Cracking the Code to Success
“Your business is like opening a safe safe, if you’re off just one little tick, the safe won’t open.” I spoke with Lisa Lockwood of West Coast Weekly and we discussed the importance of having the right code to unlock your business “safe”. Remember a few weeks back when I shared with you about how […]
