Do you find yourself in a quandary when a networking acquaintance call and invites you for a coffee? Do you answer yes, simply because you have been led to believe that networking is crucial in building relationships? Do you also wonder if the meeting is simply going to take up time that...

Please read this whether you’re someone who needs/wants to outsource OR you’re a Virtual Assistant.I think you’ll relate on both sides. You started this business to change lives and earn a living, NOT to spend hours in frustration setting up webinars, learning how to update WordPress,...

This is guest post by John Robertson, founder of iOpenWallets.com Let’s break from tradition for a moment. Let’s stop thinking about repeatable, day-to-day tasks you need taken off your plate to free up time to grow your business. Let’s take a moment and visit some offbeat concepts...

The most exciting thing about starting an online business is that it levels the playing field, no matter what your budget. You can grow an online business to wild success…all on a shoestring budget. This PLR package will help your readers do just that with 100 ideas to market their businesses for...

Every MBA student will have studied SWOT at some point. SWOT, or “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats” is a classical yet still effective tool for analyzing competition and your business. By doing a SWOT analysis, you can analyze your business in a very systematic way. (more…)

Seriously, what motivates people to buy your service? This is the one question that everyone in who has a program or a service to sell wants to know the answer to. After all, if you know how to motivate your potential customers to invest in your program to solve their problems, then you will be able...

For many business owners sales and marketing are the same thing. And more often than not, they’re despised and avoided. It’s true. Business owners know they need to have a sales and marketing strategy but because they misunderstand the concepts, they avoid them or they make simple errors – errors...

Starting a new business is exciting, but it is also one of the most daunting tasks known to man. A small business career is full of good days, bad days, and mediocre days. However, there are ways you can boost your sales and enroll more clients than you ever really expected to. Let’s take a look and...

What specific results would make you happy with business? The reason I ask, is because many business owners tell me that to be “happy” they would like to have “more sales.” However, when I ask them how many sales would make them happy, they simply state that they want as many...

I’m actually on a plane right now but, I didn’t want another moment to go by without telling you about something very exciting happening in Portland, Oregon in October. I’m going to be teaching live and in person at the Small Business DIY Marketing Conference in Portland, Oregon on...