Business Growth Power Pack

Manchester is currently the land of opportunity for grabbing hold of some free coaching and consultancy that will power your business growth.

It’s that time of year once more when our thoughts to turn to presents.
Usually people look to buy the latest business book that sounds interesting.
I’ve just emailed a client a list of books that any business would benefit from reading.
So with that in mind I’d like to share the list with you, and add [...]

Corporate Christmas gifts are always difficult to buy. And the reason is simple. Whilst you may know your clients in a business context you don’t always know what they would like as a gift, or even if they’d prefer just to pop out with you for a Christmas drink.
Obviously the solution is to sound them [...]

Manchester has an interesting funding arrangement at the moment. It’s called Creative Credits.
Creative Credits aims to help Manchester SME businesses get creative input from other businesses registered on the Creative Credits gallery on their web site.
The way it works is as follows:
Creative Credits As A User
Initially eligible users register on the Creative Credits site. There [...]

There are a number of risks that are associated with running a business.
One you don’t often think about is what would you do if you couldn’t actually get into your premises for 2 weeks, 3 weeks or longer?
Trapped Outside Your Business
What if there was a fire in the next office, one that people died in? [...]

Mary Portas’s BBC programs on reviving retailers fortunes has been consistently interesting.
Sometimes because of the way her clients try and dig their heels in to avoid change. And sometimes because you can’t believe that people are just ignoring what she says when they’d have to pay a fortune to get such advice from [...]

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Business coaching is big business. I’ve worked with Chet Holmes for many years now and have seen and heard a large number of different business coaches, gurus and the like.
The good ones really can make a difference to a business. Often however, it does require that the business take action on what the coach is [...]

Cashvertising, or to give it the correct printed title; Ca$hvertising, is a very easy and fast introduction into the secret ways to make your adverts coin in the cash.
This book is a must read for anyone who advertises right now, or wants to advertise, on or off the Internet.
In it Whitman shows exactly how to [...]

When a book has the word entrepreneur in it I always feel the urge to read it and yet often come away disappointed.
And realistically how many entrepreneurs feel they have enough time to read any books anyway?
Luckily when I got Jonathan Yates’ “All-Time Essentials For Entrepreneurs” I quickly discovered that it was a very quick [...]

Time is a precious resource and it’s not something you’d ever want to fritter away.
If you’re not involved with Twitter or blogging it’s probably because you’re scared that the time you invest in getting interesting content together is actually a waste of time.
Twitter’s A Time Waster
So many people have denounced Twitter as simply navel gazing. [...]

Writing a proposal effectively depends on answering 10 key questions. Those questions may even suggest that you save yourself a job and avoid responding with a proposal!

Business growth when you’re a business owner and/or a business leader tends to be looked upon as a budget thing.
For example, "We want to grow our business and make 25% more profit next year."

That’s the wrong way to go about it. After all if you haven’t done some investigation how do you know whether your [...]

I just had to put pen to paper to congratulate Ian Lurie on his 38 Things I wish I knew when I started in marketing post.
It got me thinking about the wider business and I’ve created 10 more things I wish I knew when I started in business…
 
 

Don’t chase every bit of business. Some people [...]

It seems as though a lot of people are turning to sales and marketing to get money into their company.
Given the current economic climate that’s no surprise.
The issue is that it can be difficult for a company struggling with bad payers and their own debts to invest in marketing.
And yet, research shows that companies [...]

Eric Schmidt from Google, Steve Jobs from Apple and,John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins are just 3 of the top CEOs that get coaching from just one man, Bill Campbell.
Campbell is an ex football coach who also ran Intuit (they made money program Quicken).
In Silicon valley Campbell is a legend. He’s had a finger in so [...]

We all need a little criticism in our lives. Otherwise how could we improve?
However, the carpers, the doubters and the envious we can do without.
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt said it best,
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have [...]

Henry Ford said, “You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.”

And that’s what we all have when we start our new job, or business.
And yet what starts with piles of enthusiasm can grind down into a living hell.
Too often I’ve talked with business [...]

You’ll be pleased to know that you’re not alone in thinking that the Internet has nothing to do with your business.
After all you don’t get any sales from your web site. You even write a blog and nothing happens there.
So you may be asking why you should be investing anything into the Internet.
Let me [...]