As anyone who runs a small business can tell you, one of the most time-consuming parts of keeping things organized is bookkeeping. Just keeping track of everything can be an enormous task as your business begins to grow. And if you don’t keep careful track of every part of your business, you may find yourself […]
Time Management
6 Habits That Kill Your Productivity and What You Should Be Doing Instead
With countless distractions in our modern, overly digitalized world, productivity can be a difficult skill to master. Whether you find yourself browsing social media when you should be typing, or texting during important discussions, you’re killing your productivity. Here are six habits that kill your productivity and what you should be doing instead to stay […]
How to Work If You’re Too Busy to Work
Too busy to work? At some point, no matter how busy you are, when you have a home business you must work in order to get paid! If you feel as though everyone is pulling at you from every side and you are just plain too busy to work then it may be time to […]
Learning from “Lazy” Salespeople
“Lazy” sales people are among my favorites—let me qualify that. “Lazy” sales people who always make their goals are among my favorites. “Lazy” sales people, or at least those who seem to accomplish a lot with minimum effort, have broken the code. They’ve understood exactly what they need to do to achieve their goals. They […]
Start/Stop/Pivot/Restart Sales Strategies
Sales, as with most things, is something that demands regularity in execution. By that, I mean, there are many things a sales person or manager has to do to perform. Some of the obvious: Prospecting, working deals, planning calls, developing proposals, developing territory/account plans, pipeline management/forecasting, time management, learning/training, one on one’s with managers (hopefully […]
How to Monitor Employee Internet Use at Work
To ensure that your employees are productive, you have to find ways to minimize time wastage at work. Although monitoring internet usage might seem draconian, it will increase employee productivity. You could track the sites that your employees visit and block certain websites but this might not prevent wasted time. The Problem of Wasted Time […]
Learn to Never Handle a Paper or Email Twice
We all do it… to our own detriment. So, let’s make a pact that we will try, if not succeed, to handle our incoming messages more efficiently. Personal time management helps immensely to make a better manager of you and me. All of us have time management tips and tricks to help us get through […]
Valuing Time: Your Customers’ and Yours
Time is the only non-recoverable thing that each of us controls. We waste it, it’s forever lost. We waste our customers’/prospects’ time, we’ve cheated them out of their most precious commodity. We let our customers/prospects waste ours—we’ve enabled them to de-value us and what we can do to help them. Ironically, we seem to treat […]
Convenience is in the Eye of the Beholder
I have a message for you from your customers. This is something they want you to know: “I don’t really care how you would like me to communicate with you. I want you to offer me the choice so we can communicate according to my needs. Don’t make me call you. Don’t make me visit […]
4 Key Ways to Make the Most of Your Business’s Down Cycle
Starting and growing your own company is exhilarating, exciting and rewarding. It also scares the living daylights out of you when you find yourself strapped into your seat, plummeting towards the very bottom of a roller coaster ride. Ups, downs and roller coaster metaphors aside, business is anything but a linear journey. Many businesses are built on momentum, which can be […]
