When it comes to coaching, educating, and goal-setting, the SMART model (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timed) has become a powerful best practice tool for persuading and influencing ourselves and others. This methodology helps us to clarify and more readily achieve our desired state by focusing the mind on specific outcomes. The SMART model provides a framework for refining […]
Setting Goals
Here’s What To Do If Your Small Business Is Tanking
You’ve poured your heart and soul into your small business. Perhaps you’ve sacrificed everything to get it up and running, or maybe you’ve been dreaming of opening your own place as a way to give something back to the community. Either way, if you’re reading this, you probably know that your business isn’t going so […]
6 Reasons Why Business Owners Don’t Set Goals
With all of the outstanding benefits that research has proven in regards to goal setting practices over the years, why is it that so many business owners still do not set goals for their companies? Since the turn of the 20th Century, stacks of data have been compiled demonstrating just how powerful the art of […]
6 Simple Yet Effective Ways to Improve Your Small Business
It doesn’t matter what industry you are in, it can be tough being a small business. You will have limited resources in comparison with the big companies and this can make it difficult to stay afloat. Fortunately, with the right approach, it is possible, you simply need to understand the small, yet effective ways in […]
9 Essential Ways to Grow Your Business
Growing a small business is no easy task. Every day there are new challenges and obstacles that you need to overcome. The key to success in any industry is knowing the right strategies and techniques that will allow you to be successful. The following are strategies for improving your small business so that you can […]
Use These 7 Tips to Achieve Your Marketing Goals
Image from Pixabay – CC0 License Tying your marketing into your overall business goals is essential. Your marketing strategies should help you to achieve the growth that you want for your business, which means it’s important to consider overall business goals when setting marketing goals. You might have a general idea of what you want […]
7 Quickest Ways to Improve Your Small Business
Making continual improvements to your small business is essential to ensure ongoing growth and success. Activities like consistently monitoring your cash flow, using social media for marketing purposes, and knowing your strengths are essential. After all, if you know your strengths, you also know what areas need attention and improvement efforts. Regardless of if you […]
Ensure Your Small Business Always Meets Targets
Pexels – CCO Licence All businesses rely on meeting their targets to achieve commercial success. For smaller firms, in particular, limited resources and a bigger reliance on cash flow means it’s essential to hit your targets. Whether you’re falling short of your sales targets, your productivity is dropping or you’re missing your customer acquisition goals, […]
An Anti-Bucket List is Full of Achievable Goals
My Anti-Bucket List (21 NOs!) Having a bucket list sounds like an enterprising thing to do. And it is. To me, bucket lists serve the purpose of helping us have experiences we think will make our lives more memorable. Life is relatively short and unpredictable. No one knows exactly what will happen next – whether […]
Utilize Positive Momentum to Improve Your Business
In life and business, good things can come from negatives. More often than not, procrastination setbacks hinder business. By building positive momentum, progress bolstered by persistent, day-to-day action, you can increase the drive of your business. Take it from Alan Weiss, creator of the “One Percent Solution” – if you improve your business by 1% […]
