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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Albert Einstein said “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” When you apply this to business you can see how much sense it makes. I’ve coached company owners who keep doing what they’ve always done. And often the reason they continue to do [...]

Leadership is absolutely vital when a company begins life coaching. The top management of a company must get behind their investment in life coaching and take the actions that their coach agrees with them. I used to take the view that business coaching was all about business. However, as I’ve continued to coach people I’ve [...]

Recession proof, a video that shows what can be achieved

On the popular GrokDotCom they’ve commented on a piece of research that shows e-commerce is still too complicated. Not just for the over 65′s but for everyone pretty much equally. If it’s too complicated people will leave the site rather than confuse their brain cells further. So in the interests of improving web sites sales [...]

I’ve been coaching a client who has a product that almost everyone needs. She is competing with a number of other providers in her area. One of those has been established about 12 years longer than her business and has built up a set of loyal clients. The issue is that my coaching client has [...]

Your company has been swimming along minding its own business when whammo! Something happens to throw it off course and slip from making a slight profit to haemorrhaging money at a rate that looks as though it can never end. If it’s a physical challenge like an earthquake, flood or fire you should already have [...]