I wasn’t really planning on writing another post about the 10 foot circle concept but then I got to thinking. Have you ever seen or heard of some great idea or method and clapped your hand to your forehead and groaned, “Why the heck didn’t I think of that?” I can just about guarantee that you have. And more than once, too. Everyone has at some point in their lives. Read More
What’s Outside Your 10 Foot Circle?
As we grow older and start realising that we are fast getting to the stage when we can no longer do what we did back in the day, we can easily stop looking very far beyond what is familiar. All too often, we start doing this to ourselves far too early. What a waste that is? A psychologist friend of mine told me that the average person lives their entire Read More
Hard Business Decisions Need Hard Copies
As I was writing this post my wife received a telephone call from her sister. Her sister was quite upset because when she picked up her mobile phone to call my wife couldn’t do so because her provider’s network had crashed. My sister-in-law was forced to locate an old paper version of an address book (remember those?) to locate my wife’s phone number to call her. Only a couple of Read More
5 Steps to Get Your Website Ready to Celebrate Christmas With your Customers
My question is: Does Christmas Come to Your Website? Here are My 5 Steps to Get Your Website Ready to Celebrate Christmas With your Customers And 7 Ways to Get the Christmas Bell Ringing in Your Website Are you looking forward to the Christmas season? For many online entrepreneurs, it’s a great time to increase their bottom line. Yes, it can be a hectic, exciting, and very busy season. To Read More
The Governator’s Six Steps to Success in Life and Business…Make Them Yours
When I was looking out for this weekend’s motivational video I came across this one from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now we all know that Arnie has made some godawful movies in his time. But not this one. In less than 5 minutes, Arnie gives is his 6 steps to success. Now he is talking about life success but they can be esily applied to our business success too. As I was Read More
Business Needs a USP?… Or is that a UVP?
Everywhere we go we come across people telling us that we need to have a USP or Unique Selling Proposition for our business. But just what do they, or we, mean by that. Why does the way we sell things need to be unique. well, there’s lots of answers to that question, I guess. Lets break the phrase down into its individual words and see what that might tell us. Read More
Don’t Plan to Fail in Your Business
We all know lots about the will to win, the will to succeed, the will to become a millionaire. But what do we know about the will to fail The will to fail? What the hell is that about, you ask. Who would have a will to fail? OK lets think for a moment. About the laws of physics. And the law of attraction. . Both are about the same Read More
What’s Ahead of You? Nothing? Or a Thriving Business?
Today, I was looking for something to share with you about being motivated. Yeah, I know we all need to be motivated. But procrastination is so much easier. Then so is being able to laze about. I love to laze around doing nothing. It’s great fun. I’d do it all the time if I could. But I can’t. Why, you ask? The answer to that is simple enough. I also Read More
In Business does Sportsmanship Overcome Dream?
While looking for a motivational video that points up a business lesson to add here, I came across this one. Here we see a young woman who was facing her last chance to achieve a dream she had. She was on the way to achieving her dream when disaster struck. Then two other young women, opponents to this time, stepped up and sacrificed their own dreams to help the fist Read More
Why Do Small Businesses Close? – No Planning
In yesterday’s post we looked at the three things that the Australian Securities and Investment Commission considered to be the main reasons why small businesses do not succeed in an all too vast number of cases. In that post I talked about in one of the reasons being that many small businesses don’t maintain adequate or sometimes any records at all. Today I intend to look at the second reason Read More