Category Archives for "Planning"

Business growth: How to have a better 2015 than your 2014

Do it differently next time Step 2: What can I do differently? Have you got the list you wrote out last week? I want you to look at the reasons you wrote down as to why you haven’t achieved the progress you were after. Invariably one main reason comes up at this point…I didn’t have […]

Could do better?

It’s natural to focus on next year’s targets over the Christmas period as the time off allows you to reflect on your performance over the last year and what you want to achieve next year. This is a reasonable approach but if you do the same you might miss out on some quick wins, plus, […]

A time for planning: The Summer focus

January through to the end of June is a bumper time of year for business growth, although there is always a slight blip over Easter when things slow down a bit. The summer holidays come along and everything slows down while people go on holiday and enjoy the good weather. Once the schools go back […]

The prime time to grow your business: The holiday effect

Now Easter is nearly upon us it signifies the first chunk of business growth time for the year has ended and it serves as a great reminder that time stops for no one. If you take a look at the image for this blog you’ll see it’s the 2014 calendar, and I’ve shaded out certain […]

Quantifying your business growth

So how are you going to find all those extra clients this year? Recently we have looked at your average client spend per year and used that to calculate how many leads you need to generate to hit your targets.  This time we are going to take the next step and look at what marketing you […]

Was it good for you?

Most business owners focus on next year’s targets over the Christmas period as they get some time off and so naturally reflect on their performance through the last year and what they want to achieve next year.  This is a reasonable approach but if you do the same you might miss out on some quick […]

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 […]