Business Challenges

52 Ways to Defeat Business Problems

A straightforward guide to building a strong, healthy and viable company... 1 | The biggest threat to a business is complacency and indifference.  Look around your organization.  Does it look like a neglected child?  Complacency and indifference are infectious.  If you’re so tired and overwhelmed that you’ve stopped paying attention to the small details, you’re employees won’t care either. 2 [...]

5 Challenges Every Business Owner Faces Before “Leveling Up”

For every business owner, challenges represent an opportunity for growth. Initially, however, issues can seem like large obstacles to overcome. The most common challenges facing business owners include: 1. Marketing You may have a great idea, service or product, but it can be difficult to determine how to get your message “out there.” How can you reach the customers most [...]

The Most Important Business Question

As Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Business owners our days are spent wrestling with the urgent. Solving problems, answering questions and fighting back worry consumes our lives and “If only” becomes our focus. If only I had more resources, better people, more clients or a unique competitive edge I would finally be able to rest. Justifying the daily pain because it’s the [...]

The biggest threat to Small Business? It’s not what you think.

In a world where nothing seems to stay in focus for long its hard to have clear, unshakable beliefs about the marketplace and your position in it. Competition changes, marketing evolves, and as small business owners, we always feel the presence of consolidators and big business competitors breathing down our neck. Every morning we must wake up and re-engage in [...]

Out With The Old & In With The New? NO WAY!

Consider this. Many businesses focus solely on attracting new customers, yet they NEED to spend a good chunk of their time retaining current customers. These are people you already know and they have solid sales potential…they’ve already bought from you! Take the time to market and sell your NEW products to your CURRENT customers and less time trying to sell old products to [...]

Get Unstuck…Right Now!

Why do individuals and corporations wake up one day stuck? You know how it is—feeling “burnt out.” What’s the point—it’s just another day of the same people and money issues, and nothing is really going to change. Where is the passion? Where is the focus, the dream, vision, determination, and excitement? They have been replaced with the all-powerful overwhelmed feeling [...]

One of the most important questions for your business!

“What is the single most compelling reason why your customer will choose your company over the competition?”  If you can’t immediately answer this question, then your company has no position. It is simply just another supplier! The holy grail of marketing and business is the ability to create a position in the mind of your most probable consumer. Your point [...]

What happened to the passion?

When you went into business, you had an idea. It might have been as simple as, “I want to be my own boss,” or, “I want to be rich.” Perhaps you saw an opportunity in the marketplace where you wanted to improve something. Think back to that time. What was your reason for taking the risk of starting your own [...]

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