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Are you scared of technology?
How comfortable are you with technology? You’d probably be embarrassed to say yes to this one, but the truth is that most people are scared of what they don’t understand. To those who aren’t trained in it, technology is an unknown that you have no...
Preventing Fires In Your Business
Fires are never good. In businesses, a fire is a sign that you’re doing something wrong. It’s a sign that you’re not being proactive about your company planning, problem prevention, and customer retention. While no one and no company is perfect,...
The 5-Step Plan to Business Happiness
To a large extent, happiness is the difference between your expectations and reality. If reality meets or exceeds your expectations, you’ll be happy. Frustration is created whenever there is a discrepancy between what you think your business should be doing versus...
The Evolution of Inefficiency
Why Systems Evolve into Inefficiency From a business’s infancy, processes are set into place to make it run more effectively. As the business grows and develops, these processes are often followed dutifully for many years, regardless of whether they continue to make...
Delegating: The Art of Saying NO to Yourself and YES to Others
A huge part of running an efficient business is having the right people in place doing the right things. As a business grows, it’s hampered by the limited capacity of the people running the business. There’s only so much that one person is capable of doing, and...
What Will Your Future Be?
None of us are fortune tellers, and we certainly can’t see the future. But we have the power to make choices every day that directly shape our future. As part of my work with my clients, I hear a lot about their goals, their visions of the future, and the actions they...
Spring Clean Your Business – Make Your Company More Productive
If you’re like practically all people, your business was built by a lot of labor and dedication and has shifted its workflow over the past years. Where you stand now is a composite of many years of people, jobs, and the technology that you have been using. Now that...
How to Grow Your Business: An Interview with Vincent Sharps of Mindgrub
This is the fourth in a series of interviews of business leaders, designed to help you grow your business. Previous interviews: Mike Rogers, SecurityHunter; Burck Smith, StraighterLine and Josh Hurwitz, GrowBridge Consulting Vincent Sharps is an inspiration to all...
Which CRM?
I work with many clients in many different stages of their business. Many of them have no idea what kind of CRM or project management system they need to support their thriving business. Many people don’t even know what a CRM is. A CRM is a Customer Relationship...
Use Your Brain Less to Simplify Your New Year
Relying on our memories uses up a lot of our precious mental resources. And yet we still constantly make mistakes by forgetting. So why do we waste precious time and energy trying to accomplish something that we don’t do well? We need to figure out how to use our...
5 Common Roadblocks to Successful Growth
As I meet and help successful business people and their teams, and as a business owner myself, I find that there are a few common roadblocks that prevent people from achieving their goals. Let’s take a look at some of these: 1. Fear of the Unknown. Most of us are...
Developing your own software? 5 Steps towards a seamless transition.
Having the right information system or website is a crucial part of running practically any business. Most of the time, you’ll need to develop at least part of it in-house to achieve the full functionality your company needs to be the most efficient. Here are some...