Practical tips, strategies, and insights for starting, growing, and managing small businesses and solopreneur ventures.
When you get asked to stay late in the office to complete another overdue project or your annual leave request is declined because somebody else has already booked time off, you begin to ask yourself, what is the point? You are busy working towards somebody else’s deadline and lining somebody else’s pocket with your blood, sweat, and tears.
When running a business, your presence on the internet can guarantee you a greater chance of success.
You might not be aware of this, but the law plays a huge part in the general life of a business owner. From day one when you begin to think about setting up your company, legal issues should be a large part of your worries and your concerns.
Welcome to Season 1, Episode 3 of the Leadership Execution Podcast. In this episode, I discuss on how you can establish a real trust with your clients and develop healthy and profitable business relationships.
It’s a strange state of affairs that just about everyone is fully aware of the fact that no business, outside of those that are exceptionally small, is capable of being run by only one person. After all, the sheer number of tasks required in keeping even a relatively simple business running is so large that trying to do it all on your own is an incredibly misguided and potentially dangerous thing to do. And yet, so many business owners attempt to do this very thing.
Nowadays, the use of a computer is so widespread that you’re essentially at a disadvantage if you don’t have several computers and a network in your office. If you don’t have a tech professional working for you, then you’re at even more of a disadvantage because if one of those computers breaks or the network collapses, then your business will stall for a long time and you’ll be at the mercy of a local computer technician to fix your business.
Increased traffic to your site? Check. Convert email unsubscribers to paying customers? Some of you would answer, “Not sure.”
Think of your business as a water treatment works. Sales leads are like water, pouring into your business every minute of every day. Some of the water can be filtered and purified, some of it can’t. A sales lead on its own has no intrinsic value. You and your sales team need to have the right information from the lead to make an informed decision whether or not to pursue them further, and you need to have it quickly before your window of opportunity closes.
There is no doubt in any entrepreneur’s mind that your employees are the most important part of the business. As has been said before, if you look after your staff, they will look after your business. But it is often hard to know what you should do in order to ensure that they feel trusted, respected and valued.
Experts say that we’re living in a golden age for businesses. The digital age has made it easier than ever for budding entrepreneurs to reach an audience and build a successful empire with a snap of their fingers.
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