One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may...
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One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may become flannel pajama pants and a tank top. Keep in mind that working for yourself requires possessing the self-discipline to work a full day without supervision. Starting your own business involves hard work, and you’ll probably be working far more than 40 hours a week.
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One of the things that I’ve learned as I start up my editing and proofreading business is that there is a lot of editing that goes on by WebMasters . They have to pay close attention to every “character.” It’s imperative to have tools and resources at hand as the editing process continues. These include Help sections, forums, Google searches, walk-through guides, and your own ability to patiently experiment. This is not a continuous, regimented process, but an inter-looping one... Read Full Story
How do you start each day in your business? Is it with a good feeling for yourself and your business? And can you maintain that feeling throughout the day? Successful business leaders feel good about their business. They feel good about their customers. They feel good about their co-workers. They feel good about their suppliers and vendors. They feel good about their business visions. They feel good, in fact, about everything in their business. They don’t feel that way just because they are... Read Full Story
Successful business leaders have a principle that guides them in all that they do. That principle is that whatever may be the circumstances they will always give nothing but their best in the business interactions that they undertake. This means nothing but the best for their customers, not just sometimes but every time without fail. In how they greet their customers and all the way through to how they provide customer service. They will do all that is in their power to ensure that the... Read Full Story
All businesses would like to find a way to increase their productivity and improve their overall efficiency in the way that they do their business. But with the hectic pace of business, most business leaders find it really hard to find time to do anything about it. They are spending almost all of their time just keeping the business running as smoothly as they can. Sometimes, they get the feeling that they have taken one step forward, only to find that they have really taken two steps back... Read Full Story
You wake up, see the sun shining, hear the birds singing and jump out of bed looking for that first cup of coffee. And then reality dawns on you once again. Your sales are down, your profits are down, you can’t afford to order more stock and you need to decide who you are going to lay off from your business. You remember back to the time when everything was going good in your business, when you were able to go to the bank and get that loan for the expansion of your business. In fact you had... Read Full Story
A few days ago, I received a comment on a post I made about using Linkedin to enhance your job search. My typical response would have been to let the comment simply pass into oblivion or delete it because it was a blatant advertisement for a “pay to play” job hunting service.
However, after some deliberation, I thought that this would be a wonderful opportunity to promote a product from one of my Linkedin contacts. So I published the comment, left a follow up comment thanking the... Read Full Story
Is your business going slow? Does it feel sometimes as if your business has stagnated? Do you constantly find yourself wishing for your business to be better and for it to become more successful? Are you feeling that perhaps it needs a boost? While all businesses experience highs and lows, most businesses, expect to succeed over time. So, why not give your business a kick start, by reviewing your business and implementing the changes that are necessary for increased success. Business success... Read Full Story
During my business life I have had many opportunities to spend quite a significant amount of time in other business leaders companies. And whilst there, I have had the good fortune to have several very interesting one to one conversations. On one particular occasion I was in the boardroom of one of the brand leaders in the drinks and beverages industry. And I asked a leading executive of that famous beverages company this question. “Why do you make strange coloured liquid, put it into funny... Read Full Story
Stress is defined as a mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension. But what does that mean for the business people that experience stress and what effect does it have on their business lives? Stress is caused by having anxiety about the things that are happening in your business life. The anxiety may well be because of some financial difficulties, or perhaps it is about a customer relationship that is going wrong and there can be many other things. If you have to put up with a lot of... Read Full Story
Meetings, meetings, meetings, that’s all the life of a business leader seems to be, a long series of meetings, but what good do they do. Everybody comes to the meetings with a preconceived idea of what the meetings are about and as to what the outcome will be. They have their own opinions and points of view and are determined to have their voice heard. The attendees at these types of meetings all finish up as just talking heads, venting their grievances and not listening to a word that other... Read Full Story
