Recently Ive been having conversations with small business owners that suggest Twitter is causing them sleepless nights. They fear losing potential customers because they’re not on Twitter or that they’re not correctly using Twitter. Like them you may have read articles from social media ‘experts’ or spoken to (often younger) family members telling you that [...]
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Do I need business training?
To some degree the experience gained in running a business on a day-to-day basis is the best training you’ll ever have. Paying the rent, paying staff, hiring, firing, sourcing product, dealing with customers or clients, and on and on. Let’s face it: no amount of training from a seminar or even an MBA can replicate [...]
The importance of integrity in market research
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) One of the most painful things for a business coach is to sit with a troubled entrepreneur who says, “I don’t get it. I did my research; the business model is fantastic and I modeled it on a highly [...]
Lighting the Darkness
Someone of a negative mindset once told me “If the world was in darkness and someone invented the light-bulb, the banks wouldn’t be interested.” This man stood in his own world of darkness, determined that nothing could be improved due to an indifferent society. And of course, the rise of the industrial world shows how [...]
Curiosity is Key
Having assisted in the startup of more than 2,500 new companies in the past decade, we’ve learned a thing or two about the natural assets of a great entrepreneur. We considered such virtues as hard work, commitment, great financial resources, even the value of desperation because they can’t find a job. Our conclusion, however, is [...]
Harnessing Power & Vision
When advising would-be entrepreneurs we always stress the need for being passionate about their venture and using that passion to formulate a vision as to where they want the business to be in say, two or three years time. What they are about to face as they build their business means hours and days of [...]
Lessons from the Oscars
Last night was Oscars night. That means you were either glued to the TV to watch it unfold or you hide away in another room with a book. Whichever camp you fall into, there’s something to learn from the Academy Awards in that it gives us a rare glimpse into the complex world of making a [...]
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