Category Archives for "Focus & momentum"

Following up: Are your actions affecting your reputation?

How you do anything is how you do everything! I love that phrase because it’s so true. We’ve all met people who say they’ll do certain things but then never do them, and that reflects really badly on your perception of them and thus their credibility.  Someone said something to me a little while back […]

How many new clients do you want this year?

I think I’m on pretty safe ground by assuming you want to grow your business this year.  I’m also reasonably confident that you have quantified that growth by an amount of revenue.  Am I right? You have probably also mapped out what marketing channels you are going to use to do it. But have you […]

The one thing I get asked the most

As most of you know I am a working mum, I like picking my girls up from school, watching them in school events, having plenty of quality family time, I continually market my business including a reasonable amount of networking each week, I look after numerous networking groups which involves supporting the teams and helping […]

Build some early momentum

Most B2B businesses will see a drop off in their rate of new client acquisition at this time of year. This is because people will start to delay decisions until after Christmas as they will be focused on the list of “things” they need to get done between now and then.  This actually gives you […]

Fancy a business growth challenge?

I thought we would do a bit of a challenge this week.  Do you find you often have some good ideas about how to grow your business but then find you never do them?  In my experience this is very common so I thought I’d share with you an exercise I love to do as […]

How was it for you?

We are well into October which means we are rapidly approaching the last 2 months of the year.  I expect you set yourself some goals for your business back in January.  Have you achieved them?  With only 2 months to go before we hit 2014 there isn’t a huge amount of time left to make […]

How you do anything is how you do everything!

I love that phrase because it’s so true.  We’ve all met people who say they’ll do certain things but then never do them, and that reflects really badly on your perception of them and thus their credibility. Someone said something to me a little while back that I have remembered ever since.  I was having […]

The "P" word

For your business to be successful you have to take action to grow it.  Another way of putting that would be…your ability to take the required action has a direct impact on the amount of money in your business bank account.  So how easy do you find it to take that required action? We all […]

The time for huge action

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…we are currently in one of the main business growth zones of the year.  The children are back at school, and that signifies a time of business momentum where decisions happen thick and fast so it’s a great time to grow your business.  To paint this in […]

You are the key to growing your business

Those businesses that successfully grow are those that make business growth a key priority.  Do you? I usually find that how focused a business owner is on growing their business is dependent on 1 thing…how much money they have in the bank.  When you first start up you are totally focused on growing your business […]