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If you want to be successful you must focus on goals, in business or personal affairs. I occasionally catch myself saying “yes” when I should have actually said “no”. This usually results in stress and unnecessary time pressure.

The following tips help me to handle opportunities, request and fav Read More

Would you trust your lawyer if she took everything at face value?  I hope not.  Lawyers don't take anything at face value, they are skeptical of our positions Read More

Value co-creation moves from teaching the customer to learning from each other. It causes us to leverage our individual and shared experiences together, creating something that we could not have produced separately or in the traditional ways I've spoken of earlier in the post. Read More

Marketing your small business Website is easier than you think. Nikki Pilkington offers this gigantic resource including a blog post and free e-book that will give you tons of actionable ideas you could probably start implementing today. Some of these ideas you may have already thought of, others p Read More

Yes, you read correctly. John Jantch of Duct Tape Marketing believes learning to breath as a way to relieve stress will make you better at running your business and healthier over all. But before you dismiss this notion as some kind of new age self improvement kick, read what John has to say about Read More

In this interview, Becky McCray of Small Biz Survival talk about what small business marketers can learn from farmers. In particular, Becky talks about the principal of reaping what you sow, how cutting corners in marketing can lead to poor results. But she also talks about the importance of allowi Read More

I’ve noticed that most young entrepreneurs are more socially conscious today than ever before, which is a great trend. Unfortunately, some are so focused on this principle that they forget that every business, even non-profits, have to practice the basic principals of capitalism (build a business m Read More

Starting a business has never been more easy than it is today. You don’t need much money to get started and can be up and running within a few hours. If you think back to how hard it was in the past you can really appreciate how lucky you are. A few years ago someone would maybe need to crawl into Read More

Sixteen of the fastest growing countries in the world are in Africa. Has Africa's time finally come and it will now forge ahead? Read More

My lovely client Bridgette (from Village PR in Tauranga) told me the funniest story about a tennis game she played in Fiji recently. The parallels to and lessons about business were clearly apparent to us both so I just have to share it…

Bridgette it turns out is a bit of a gun tennis Read More