The Best Entrepreneurs Never Break This Business Rule
Have you ever felt like you were inconveniencing a small business with a simple call to place an order? You could be making the same mistake by breaking a little known and often overlooked business...
View ArticlePirates and Business Plans: Have Ye a Map?
You wouldn’t leave home without knowing where you’re going. Printing directions, using GPS, or taking a paper map are essential first steps for any road trip. Your business is a much bigger journey...
View ArticleFour Entrepreneurship Lessons from Captain Kirk
James Tiberius Kirk. Rebel. Leader. Friend. Captain. …entrepreneur? Yes, believe it or not, there are powerful lessons Captain Kirk can teach every small business owner. Watch this brief video as I...
View ArticleWhat is your business cause?
Your business needs to be about more than money. With a business cause, your business becomes vibrant and meaningful. Without a cause, you run the risk of becoming a Scrooge, emotionally isolated and...
View ArticleWork Life Balance: Balancing the Life Part
It’s hard to throw a rock in business without hitting someone saying something about work life balance. But that’s only the half of it. Even business owners who balance life and work perfectly have...
View ArticleProtect Your Business Focus Like a Fortress
As a business owner, it’s not hard to imagine yourself as a heroic general. If you were at war, you would be awfully suspicious of anyone bearing gifts—Trojan horses—from outside your walls. But Trojan...
View ArticleWhy Your Hard Work is Killing Your Business Valuation
Are you a crazed business ninja? Trying to do everything all the time? Always fighting the next piece of work? Imagine doing less and having more time. “I couldn’t do that,” you’d say. “I’m the expert...
View ArticleBusiness Feedback: To Listen or Not to Listen?
I’m sure you get feedback about your business all the time. People are always telling you what you should do or change. But which business feedback should you listen to? When is it valuable and worth...
View ArticleHow to Stay Focused and Not Get Bombarded with Business Calls
If you’re like one stressed business owner I just spoke to, you might be getting calls ALL the time. . . . past acquaintances . . . salespeople . . . customers. You name it. They’re all asking for...
View ArticleCould more work cripple your business? Take an opportunity assessment
Did you know–in the United States alone–over 65 small businesses fail every hour! That’s about one failure per minute. How do once thriving companies end up having to close? It often comes down to how...
View ArticleThis week only – Get up to Ten Free Copies of The Focused Business and more!
If your small business is trapped in the clutches of chaos, here’s a once-in-forever opportunity . . . Have you read my book The Focused Business yet? If you have, you’ll know why real-life Amazon...
View ArticleYour LAST CHANCE to get a free second copy of the Focused Business
I don’t know if you got my email earlier this week. I’m offering a free second copy of The Focused Business. All you have to do is upload your receipt here and I’ll send it to you another copy (up to...
View ArticleAbout Entrepreneurship: Feed Your Optimism
Take a moment and brainstorm characteristics that accomplished entrepreneurs share. Thinking something like resolve, initiative, open-mindedness, charisma, or a similar attribute? Right…but incomplete....
View ArticleAppease Question Vultures and Stay Focused
Picture two dozen unread documents at your desk, at least 25 time-contingent emails within your inbox, with a do-or-die meeting in three hours. Then somebody knocks on your door with a “quick...
View ArticleWhich Motivational Documents Actually Help Workers Stay Focused?
Culture statements, missions, visions, values, credos, secret handshakes, etc. The list goes on and on. At best, a megaton of company literature distracts you, employees, and customers alike. Not good....
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