Every individual has a personality, but did you know your business has a personality as well? Your business personality will take on the characteristics of your personality, or sometimes it will reflect the whole make up of your team. Often, just like your own personality, your business personality will have different facets. There may be…
There is a huge difference between advertising and marketing. Big businesses use advertising to put their brand out there through TV, radio, billboards and the like, to draw people to them. As a small business owner your business strategy has to have strong marketing because you can’t compete with big business advertising. Your marketing strategy…
Do you have a plan B in your business? What if the things you’ve planned in your business, or that you’re working on today, whatever it is, doesn’t turn out exactly the way you wanted? What if your big launch doesn’t produce, or that email campaign doesn’t perform the way you want, or that team…
Do you have a tendency to hold on to things in your business too long? Maybe it’s your team, staff or employees, maybe its programs that are no longer profitable. Holding on to things because they’re familiar or because it’s comfortable can get in the way of moving your business to the next level. You…
The cost of doing nothing in your business is always more than the cost of making a mistake in your business. If you’re not active marketing in your business – that is the most expensive mistake you’ll ever make. When you are not active in your business, when you’re not actively putting your marketing strategies…
You may have heard it said before, many times – the adage that good enough is good enough – and it’s true, as long as you don’t put out junk in your business. So, the question becomes how do you make sure you’re not putting out junk. You pay attention to the little things in…
Have you ever been frustrated in your business? Have you ever been just so frustrated with your business and in your business that you’ve said something like this – “That’s it! I’m finished! It’s not worth all of this! I’m just going to work at Starbucks!” Or something like that… Not many people are willing…
When thinking about your marketing strategy, content is key. The more content you can give away for free the more people are attracted to you and your business. You have to figure out what you can give away for free by utilizing a drip marketing strategy so that you are giving your content away in…
Most business owners learn very early on that they need to delegate, and most need to delegate more business responsibility than they do. When you start delegating and your business grows, the challenge becomes how to delegate without abandoning your responsibilities. There is a line that all business owners walk, where you want to delegate,…
Irresistible free offers are used for a lot of things, and one of the biggest is on your website, or other places, to build traffic. On your website, you ask people to give you their name and their email address, and in return you give them an irresistible free offer, filled with great value and…
