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Business leaders and owners are battling through similar challenges these days. “My business is down, we are struggling, the economy is killing us. I have our team doing what we did in '93, but this time it just isn't working—” Your entire team is watching you and they are wondering— Read More

Okay, so you hire a new employee - one who has, let's say, ten years of applicable work experience. They show up at work and your number one goal is to get them up and running as quickly as possible Read More

It is easy to put more focus on the method of forecasting sales results rather than the putting the focus on the purpose of forecast which to drive activity, accountability and execution. Read More

SOLE-TRADERS and smaller businesses are the most vulnerable potential victims of the expected swine-flu pandemic. There's a lot of information about at the moment on how enterprises should prepare themselves to weather a global swine flu outbreak should the current situation worsen. Most of this is aimed at large organisations rather than the s Read More

There are three possible answers as to whether you got a return on the time and/or money you have spent on your marketing activities:(a) Yes,(b) No,(c) Don't know. If you answered (c) then you may never know what is working and producing results for your brand. Read More

Looking at some myths and rumors around sales and sales people. Read More

Social Media Marketing Colombia Interview I'm doing a keynote seminar on Implementing and Integrating Social Media in Bogota Colombia for a marketing congress on September 27th. As a professional speaker this is one of my favorite parts of the job, getting to share my ideas and passions with people from all over the world. The seminar company Read More

So great feedback and suggestions to a post earl er this week. Thanks Neil Read More

Seth Godin has this GREAT post about the small business death spiral especially during periods of recession. It's a sort of "don't let this happen to you" post and is something to really think about when business is down. I want to thank Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software who drew my attention to this great post with a link from her Mo Read More

What is it about your use of Twitter, or blogging, or Facebook, or video, or any other combination of social media tools and tactics ,that you believe makes them actually work for your small business? What does not work? How do you manage your time around all this? Here are some answers to these questions. Read More