100 Days That Will Define Your Business Forever
So you’ve done the hard work of winning a new customer, but it’s what you do in the next 100 days that determines if it’ll stick around.
Success Habit: Preparing A Daily ‘Brain Dump’ Action Plan
A productive day is defined with what you choose to achieve as much as to what you purposefully choose to leave out. Keeping a detailed list of related priorities in your head can be hard, even for the best of us. It’s not the best use of our mental capacity, anyway. There is a great…
Business Owners: How To Be 400 Percent More Effective
When business owners get stuck working ‘in’ the business, there are two things that business owners start to find challenging very quickly: thinking ahead and doing things in order of importance. Losing control and not doing these two key activities make the difference between just surviving in business and owning a successful, profitable and predictable…
How To Do A Daily Standup WIFLE Meeting
Business owners looking to build a championship team who run the business for them, will have noticed the gaining popularity of the daily standup meeting and the benefits of implementing them in their own business. Today, I want to talk about a particular type of quick stand up meeting, that myself and other thought leaders…
Systems: Can Your People Do it the Same Way You Do It?
A great acronym to remember the benefits of getting systems in place in your business is S aving Y our S elf T ime E nergy M oney S tress Systems are your way of empowering your team to do large parts of your job, just as if you were doing it personally. They…
Business Exit Timing: The 4 Steps To Finding Your Sell-By Date
Most business owners think selling their business is a sprint, but the reality is it takes a long time to sell a business. The sound of the gun sends blood flowing as you leap forward out of the blocks. Within five seconds, you’re at top speed and within a dozen, your eye is searching for…
Did You Miss The Perfect Time To Sell Your Business?
September was a roller-coaster ride for stockholders here and overseas. Tidy wins followed by even larger losses, left the average investor reeling and were a good reminder that markets move in both directions. Valuations of privately held business have also been somewhat turbulent of late. In many of the reports I am reading—both large and…
Business Owners: Communicate Clearly With VAK (Visual Auditory Kinesthetic)
Do you feel like sometimes you struggle to be understood and be heard by your team? Or, have you ever found yourself repeating the same instructions to a team member and they just don’t “get it”. Your communication method is the key. Business owners, more often than not, communicate with others using methods that work…
You Need A Business Coach … Even If You Don’t Want One!
In a recent podcast interview I listened to, famed thought leader Seth Godin exclaimed that nowadays, nobody wants a [business] coach … everybody who wants a coach already has got themselves one … I think Seth is absolutely right, and I couldn’t agree more! Business Owners Want Results … Here’s why…just like nobody wants to buy a drill…
Selling Your Business: How To Avoid These 4 Common Traps
Easy…Don’t get caught out.. If you get this wrong, your lack of preparation could cost you the deal…or worse, you’ll take a discount on the business sale price. Over the past 30 years + of being involved in business sales as buyer and seller personally, or as a consultant for others, I have yet to see…