Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
Read Like a Successful Person
Struggling to read effectively can impact every area of your business life, including screening an applicant’s CV or resume, providing good customer service, or otherwise running your company. If you struggle with reading and want to do better, keep reading. Have you ever read a book from cover to cover only to realize that in…
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Your Mentor–Mentee Relationships
As you already know, the internet is chock-full of advice on how to boost your career success. While most of these are helpful (I’ve written quite a few myself), they seem to largely focus on how to find success by yourself. But what about finding success through others? Isn’t that equally, if not more, important? That’s…
Read MoreAre Your Sales People Organizationally Savvy?
Clearly we live in worlds of increasing complexity. The issues our customers and our own organizations deal with are increasingly complex. The problems and challenges our customers face are not trivial. Our solutions and products are increasing in breadth and scope. The rate of change, both self-generated and externally imposed, seems to be accelerating. It’s…
Read MoreIt’s What You Ask, Not What You Know
A friend recently told me a story that had nothing to do with business, but unintentionally had a great lesson for all of us. He had asked his arborist if he could move a mature tree from one part of his property to another to make room for an addition to his home. “Yes,” replied…
Read MoreTop 10 Restaurant Marketing Blogs to Follow in 2016
As an independent restaurateur, we are always trying to find resources that can help us improve our operation. However, we don’t always have the time needed or wanted to search for these resources. So I thought I would share some of the resources we regularly follow to save you some time. While you can spend…
Read MoreWhat Do You Wish You’d Known Yesterday?
Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? I know. We need financial data for comparison, and to a degree—for planning. But we should be thinking of finding ways to make data available to us much earlier, when it is more meaningful…
Read More5 Tips for Starting a Small Business in College
Starting a business while still enrolled in college isn’t an option for everyone. College is stressful enough, and running a business is a whole new ball game. If you’re especially ambitious and bursting at the seams with ideas, it may be worth overcoming the fear of that stress to help your future materialize. In some…
Read More7 Ways to Find Your Mentor
Running a small business is hard work, and having the right mentor can mean the difference between struggling and succeeding. A mentor has the connections that you haven’t yet developed, and is able to see a few more steps into the future with relative ease. Everyone could benefit from a little more guidance, so it…
Read More6 Ways to Start Learning for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me…
Read MoreHow I Learned Too Much About SEO
This may seem like an odd title. Can you really learn too much about SEO? Is it possible to read too many pieces of information? In my case, yes, it really was. When I first started out on my journey to create an SEO agency, I craved knowledge. To me knowledge was power. I learned…
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