Posts Tagged ‘Establishing Priorities’
3 Essential Time-Saving Tips for Business Owners
Running a successful online business can allow for time flexibility and earning power, things which are hard to come by these days. Gaining the freedom of time and income should be a goal of every entrepreneur. Turn these tips into daily habits and you should see an improvement…
Read More You Don’t Have to Do It All in Marketing
To succeed with your marketing efforts takes thought, strategy, and perseverance, not having a profile on every social media site. Every business and organization is different—some have similarities, but no two are exactly the same.
Read More Many Entrepreneurs Over-Think or Under-Think Issues
While technology and the Internet allow you to act and react more quickly than ever before, you need more than ever to consider decisions reflectively before making them. In addition to solving problems the right way, make sure you are solving the right problems.
Read More How to Get Great Business Travel Deals
Whether you’re a private consultant paying your own bills (and tracking carefully for tax write-offs) or working for a massive company, you are surely being urged from one source or another to scale back your business expenses.
Read More Safety First. Profits Follow.
Much of workplace safety is common sense. But there is a natural tension between economy of operation and provision for safety for employees, and the resulting risk to the enterprise must be carefully weighed.
Read More The Four Questions Great Leaders Ask
Ever notice how great leaders ask the best questions? A masterful leader will sit Yoda-like in a meeting, listening intently to the dialogue and then, with Zen Master timing, ask a question that will change the tenor, the focus and the performance of the entire team.
Read More Who Is the Customer?
Clearly identifying the customer is critical in focusing our sales and marketing where we have the greatest insights, where we have the greatest impact, and where we get the greatest return on our investment in time and resources. Doing this focuses us on the customer where we create the greatest value.
Read More 8 Key Focus Elements Will Attract Startup Investors
One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition.
Read MoreHow to Say “No” With a Smile and Save Your Startup
Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time, attention, talent, money, or influence, and sometimes even good requests won’t fit into the time and energy you have available.
Read More 5 Fatal Flaws in Your Productivity and Time Management Strategy
If you’ve ever looked at your watch and wondered where the day went; if you’ve ever had a list of things to do and haven’t accomplished much on that list in your week; if you’ve ever thought, “I have too many things to do and not enough hours in the day”—then you most likely have fatal flaws in your productivity and time management strategy.
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