When I first started my career out of college, I was a full-time graphic designer for a chemical corporation. I was often handed presentations or documents that were thrown together at the last minute and asked to make them “look nice”. My bosses that gave me the assignments did not come from a design background,…
The employee sat in silence as their boss went on about another round of changes to the project she was working on. There was nothing to say really. It would only extend the meeting and it wouldn’t change the outcome. No matter what, more time would be spent on this project, the prior work would…
Complaining… whether we’d like to admit it or not, we’ve all done it at some point. Sometimes, we even complain about things that are actually good and we should be thankful for! Students complain about their teachers, children complain about their parents and siblings, employees complain about their bosses, customers complain about service, husbands and…
I’m in a season of planning. Business planning, sales planning, financial planning, career planning, wedding planning…. Went to a committee meeting at my church this week; yep, Worship Planning. My wife and business partner frequently discuss plans for planning all these things we plan for clients, family and friends. Planning is critical to the success…
“Hello, could your site handle more traffic?” … “I’ve been impressed with your site, how would you like to receive 2,000 clicks per month with this limited time offer?!” … “Are you interested in increasing your domain authority and page rank over your competitors?” Sound familiar? We get it – you’ve most likely been bombarded…
I have worked with lots of small business owners, churches, and non-profits over the past decade and there is at least one common issue that plagues all of these organizations and the people who are leading them. There isn’t a lot of delegation going on. A critical part of time management and leadership is delegation…
In today’s world, the internet is overflowing with information, content, and products for just about anything. Any number of keywords have hundreds of pages competing to rank number one on the search engine results page. It can often be difficult to appear on even the second page of the search results. So how do you…
With the 4th Quarter upon us, it’s time to start the Strategic Planning process which should mean Sales Planning. This post gives you a simple tool to make prioritizing sales targets both easy and effective. Sales Planning for Small Business I’ve led or contributed to a few decades worth of Sales Planning cycles. Large companies,…
“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.” – James 1:6 Have you ever felt like the wave James describes above? When we let doubt creep in our business or personal lives because of…
One topic has resurfaced lately in many of my coaching discussions. Small business owners are hesitant to niche their brand. What does that mean? From a marketing standpoint it means to focus your marketing efforts on a specific niche. This is usually a specific target audience for your services or products. I wrote about this topic…