Here are my top five quick and easy tips for ultimately improving efficiency and your bottom line. Focus on what you do well. Use technology to streamline processes. Share your knowledge. Add FAQs to your website. The phone shouldn’t drive you crazy. You can find the full article I’ve originally written for Tsheets here.…
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In business, there are smart ways to cut your costs and make your business more profitable, and there are foolish ways. As a business coach, I’m all for ‘trimming the fat’ when you are smart about it. Cut the right things and be clever on how you save your pennies. However, when you cut the…
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One of a company’s greatest assets is its employees. Training an employee is one of the foremost factors that must be put into force in a business. Huge companies spend billions of dollars on training per year – to make sure their employees are trained to perfection to produce the best results in the workplace. …
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Being successful in your sales meeting with a prospective client does not just end there. Why? The gold is in the follow-up. Many small business owners walk out of a sales meeting, away from a quotation job, or hang up from a prospective phone call and stop. Learn how to win clients through follow-up. Read…
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You have stepped-up in your career from a regular employee into a manager. Congratulations! What then? Does your success in the organisation just end up there? Definitely not. You have just accepted the greater responsibility that requires a different set of rules, goals, and skill. This is another challenge to a certain extent of your…
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Your business is only special if it really has something that makes it different or sets it aside from all other companies within the same industry. For this to be possible, consider the “superhero” factor that will make your business stand out from all the rest of the businesses. Read Sales is NOT a Dirty…
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Business communication can take many different forms, ranging from verbal to written. Communication can be between employees within the same company, or between a company and its customers, suppliers and partners, or even with a business’ prospects. The reasons for business communication can also differ greatly, but it is usually intended for the benefit of…
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So often business success is based on how high your website is ranked and getting onto page one in Google search. This means you want to become Google’s best friend. By ‘loving’ Google, you will be rewarded. Here are tips on how to earn the good favour of Google: …
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What are you not saying or seeing or not hearing in your business? Business communication is very important. So often in business we miss things. We don’t communicate as effectively as we should, or miss things or perhaps don’t always ‘hear’ what is being said (or often, not said). Read It’s Mid-2017 – How…
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As a business coach, I am talking to business owners every day and there is definitely a stigma around the word ‘sales’ and about being a ‘salesperson’. Firstly, can I say ‘sales’ is not a dirty word! There is a mindset out there that business owners don’t want to be a salesperson because they draw…
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