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What Road Runner Can Tell Us About Business Growth

I’m going to write this backwards and begin with what it takes to grow your business. When it comes down to it it is actually very simple…. All it takes is Focused Effort. Now you can pad that out a bit and add that it needs to be effort in line with the strategic direction […]

Are You Doing Sales All Wrong?

My star sign is Leo, and I’m such a Leo!! We tend to love attention, we want to be on the stage hogging the limelight and we tend to be in leadership positions.  Now, although I do have some strong Leo tendencies there are also times when I shy away from leadership and hogging the […]

Marketing: It’s Just A Conversation

If you detest marketing then you aren’t alone. We are constantly bombarded by marketing messages so it’s understandable that we don’t always enjoy receiving them. But when we want to grow our business we need to embrace the power of marketing and that’s tricky if we don’t like it! Why don’t we like it? We’ve […]

All It Took Was A Letter

So I’m 45 years old and I’ve been in denial for easily 12 months. I was ignoring the fact that my eyesight wasn’t as good as it had been. Yep, I was hiding from the fact I’m getting older! I know. Totally silly but getting it sorted wasn’t a priority. The day it changed   […]

Who’s Driving Your Train: Time To Take Control Of Your Business

Here’s a recording of me on 4N TV Live talking about how easy it is to feel like your business is consuming you and feeling like a runaway train, and what to do about it so you are back in control and on a good steady course to success

The Key To Successfully Growing Your Business Is…

Do you find it hard to keep up the constant focus required to successfully grow your business? Yes? You’re not alone. Have you ever trained for an event, or lost weight as part of a slimming club, or improved your fitness by working with a training buddy? Yes? Did you find that easier than staying […]

Fed Up Of Writing Proposals That Don’t Win the Work?

Do you find yourself writing a killer proposal but then still getting a “No”? But you had great rapport when you met, you can deliver exactly what they need, everything seemed to align, but when you sent in the proposal you got a “thanks but no thanks” response. It sucks doesn’t it! So why does […]

The Benefits of Getting Ballsy With Your Business

One of the biggest challenges with service businesses is that we can be too nice and all too often that “too nice” behaviour severely impacts our bottom line. Are you “too nice”? Can you think of times when you’ve agreed to things that weren’t ideal but you did it because you convinced yourself it was […]