Top 10 Proven Ways To Ignite Your Small Business Success
Home The stats on small business failure are so staggering, whichever country you choose, they undermine small business success. And whichever country entrepreneurs and business owners are doing business in, they feel the weight of the data. A big part of your problem is that the recognized and accepted reasons small business don’t succeed are many. They […]
How To Use Attentive Listening To Actually Skyrocket Sales
Home Recently, at a monthly mastermind group meeting, a member asked me, “Lorna, what does it take to really, really skyrocket sales?” I let the suspense hang in the air for a couple of seconds…with all eyes focused on me. Then I replied matter-of-factedly: “attentive listening.” I could feel the “ahhmm…that’s the best you can do, bright girl?” circle […]
9 Useful Things To Remember When You Name A Business
Home When you name a business, you should think of what they say about naming a dog. I’m sure you’ve heard the expression: Give a dog a bad name and hang it! Well, as business goes, when you name a business, I say: Give a business a bad name and kill it! It seems to […]
8 Useful Ways To Survive By Renewing Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
Home When last did you look in the mirror and ask yourself: “Do I still have an entrepreneurial spirit?” And what was your answer? Was it something like: You’d better remind me what it is again? What is an entrepreneurial spirit? I wish I had a short simple definition for you that you could just wrap […]
8 Easy Ways Business People Can Improve Their Writing Skills
Home Show me the average entrepreneur, business person or manager of a small business, working off-line or online, who cannot benefit from improved writing skills! I know I usually emphasize having public speaking skills but effective writing skills are equally essential for various aspects of your business life. For example, it’s also important for your: success in […]
Conflict Management: How to Make It Your Best Leadership Tool
Home Before I discuss how to make conflict management your best leadership tool, perhaps we should step back and take a quick look at leadership first. Very simply, leadership is the process of getting things done through people. To get things done through people, you must be able to exert significant influence over those people. For me, […]
Make Decisions That Will Last In 7 Smart, Easy Steps
Home I knew I was procrastinating but sometimes I hate when I have to make decisions. So there I was…suspended between writing a blog post and completing the documents for my Top Level Speakers Program. Then my phone rang. On the phone was my fave business colleague and friend, inviting me to “a quick power lunch.” In […]
9 Key Negotiating Strategies Small Business Owners Need to Win
Home If I were to ask you, “What does your business need most?” Without hesitation, you’d say “money!” If you were to ask me the same thing, without hesitation, I’d say “It needs you to have sound negotiating strategies!” You see, whether you realise it or not, as small business owners (SBOs) you constantly have to be negotiating. […]
6 Ways To Turn Small Business Failure Into Amazing Success
Home My spirit was in turmoil and my body was feeling the stress. I had too many sleepless nights…pacing my house in straight lines and in circles… I was choosing my fingernails over steak and potatoes. You see…my latest business MISadventure was causing me all this. It was standing in line to be voted “small business failure […]
Raising money for business? 10 helpful things you need to cover
Home “Raising money”… You were enjoying the conversation until someone mentioned those words. But why do you get that nauseous feeling in the pit of your stomach, that sense of dread, when you hear those words? I think it’s because for the most part, you bring tremendous emotion to raising money for your business. Why? […]