The “things to do” list is never ending for small business owners, but following a checklist (at least once a year) can make the following months go a lot smoother. One things for sure. If
Continue readingIf you put an ad in the paper and didn’t get any phone calls from it, would you consider that a success? Of course you wouldn’t. It wouldn’t matter if one hundred or one million people read your
Continue readingYou have to talk to people if you want to grow your business. Whether it’s talking face-to-face, via email, or social media — ya still gotta do it. 🙂 But a lot of people get it all wrong. (Not you,
Continue readingWhy do good business referrals matter? Think, for a minute, about how you found your last service provider or product you were looking for. Now if you’re like most people, you more than likely asked
Continue readingThere are hundreds of different ways to drive traffic to your niche website. If you want you can get very complicated with this, but often it’s the simple strategies that work best. Today I want to share
Continue readingHow do you feel when you land on a website that contains list after list of testimonials? Do you believe those testimonials are real? It’s sad to say that some businesses will go to long lengths
Continue readingAre you getting your fair share of sales? Or is your bank account about to run dry because your prospects keep telling you your prices are too high? And until you find out what “that thing” is, you
Continue readingIf I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. “I’m afraid to raise my prices because my customers might walk away.” And when they do get up enough nerve to raise their prices, they worry
Continue readingSince we spend so much time on the interwebs these days, we’ve gotten lazy about how we present ourselves at face-to-face functions. There’s a whole world of prospects out there waiting to meet you.
Continue readingAre you the kind of person who likes to wing it with the things that you do in your business? Winging it in your business can cause a lot of stress. It means you have to remember every single step of everything
Continue readingOne of the things that’s really cool about us humans is that we are creatures of habit. That helps us keep our sanity and get through the hectic world we live in today. But in your small business, that
Continue readingIs panic setting in because you’re sitting there staring at a blank screen and can’t figure out what to say? You’re not alone. I’ve heard a lot of small business owners complain about
Continue readingThese days, everyone says you need to have social proof your products or services are loved by your customers. That means you need to have their words telling others just how good it is – yep, that
Continue readingOne thing I have found to be universally true about starting and running a small business is that there are plenty of people who will tell you things can’t be done. Or that you are on a dead end
Continue readingI’ve yet to meet a small business owner who hasn’t been sucked into buying something because they were afraid of missing out. Whether they were motivated by a timer ticking down the minutes, a deadline
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