So you’ve got your business running, you’re an entrepreneur! Yet is your business really profiting like it should? All too often it isn’t. Why? Is it a bad industry? Are you not good enough? No. The issue is often that people don’t focus on what actually makes them money. Here’s how much time a typical [...]
Prophetic words, those. In his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill tells a tale of Mr. Darby who tried to start a gold mine and gave up just three feet short of the gold! He gave up on his dream just three feet away from a rich gold mine. Just three feet. I ran [...]
The follow up is where most sales are made, yet this is the area that most business owners and sales people fall short on. It’s also much easier to sell to an existing client then to find a new client. So the follow up really is where the money is made. Some things to consider [...]
So many new business owners try to build a business with no clear target in mind. Their activities invariably end up scattered and unfocussed. They end up working hard but not really getting anywhere, spinning their wheels on a treadmill, busy but unproductive. How could this be? Simple. They never set a target before they [...]
Understanding how to identify who your potential customers are is one of the most important skills any entrepreneur can have. In the world of online marketing this is just as true as in off line marketing. If you don’t understand who will be most likely to buy your product or service, and who you want [...]
One thing I see in many new entrepreneurs, especially in the world of Internet Marketing and Multilevel Marketing, is a lack of understanding of what money really is how it works and how to manage it effectively. Today I’ll clear up a few things about money, starting with what it really is and moving on [...]
I’ve done things in my past that I regret. We all have. I’ve also wasted my time and energy regretting those things, rather then spending it on doing better today and creating a better tomorrow where I do fewer of those things I’ll later regret. You see, the thing about regretting what you did in [...]
“The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we [...]
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.” – Mahatma Gandhi Words of wisdom from a very wise man. When idle I have found that I am never as happy as I am when I’m busy with many valuable things to do. That doesn’t mean don’t set aside [...]
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” – Augustus Caesar This is good advice. Whatever you do, and wherever you go, leave that place and the people in it in a better state then they were before you were there. When you do business, give back more value [...]
