Business Mentoring could be just what you need to get your business back on track and you passion back in your life. Remember your ideas and passion for your business when you started – what happened? I tell you what happened, the everyday jobs and drudgery of doing anything in this world, that’s what happened.…
One of the most destructive developments in any business is when a business, large or small, is loosing its business focus. The same is true if you as a small business owner fail to focus on your business goal(s). WinWeb tells you what you can do to stay on course to achieve your small business…
A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. “Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.” Edwin Land (1909-91) US inventor & founder of Polaroid Corporation, Boston Globe (March 1991) To view previous quotes of the day, click here
I have taken to tweeting lately, it is a great networking tool, you have 140 characters to tell the world what you are doing. So I ask myself, ‘how would you tell others ‘in a tweet” what your small business does?’ One of the points I always make when giving speeches about small business is…
So let's do the next best thing, have a look at what big business does.Anna Farmary, on her The Engaging Brand Blog as an article "Focus on Customer Experience Delivers Profit" - being nice to customers and focus on their needs, to you and me. While she laments Amazon for failings, the facts of a study remain:Peer Insight did a 3 year study of 40 Fortune 500 companies - the results show that companies that focused upon customer experience design outperformed the S&P 500 by a 10-1 margin from 2,000 to 2,005.I guess, we do not need a brain surgeon to tell us that a similar trend would be seen for small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants, so be nice to your clients and service them well, go the extra mile and be rewarded with a loyal client and more revenue down the road.Being focused on your clients pays, 10:1 margin, think about that.
In these times of our economies in a possible depression, small business focus is more important than ever, the japanese merchant Mitsui Takafuse had this to say about family business focus in the 17th century:Never waste your attention on matters that have nothing to do with your work .... Remember that it is the family business that must not be neglected for a moment.Being focused on your small business also means getting all tasks not crucial for your small business eliminated or outsourced.
Growth and expansion is important in any business, but it is especially true for small business who might only just be starting out in their industry. It’s important to hit the ground running and lay strong foundations in the market for your business to build upon going forward. There’s a whole lot that goes into…
When you stake your claim in a market for the first time as a small business – whether as a sole trader or with a couple additional staff members – it’s always immensely gratifying to watch your business grow and expand. Growing as a small business isn’t always so cut and dry, however. There’s a…
Winweb’s cloud-based business management solutions have a new focus on industry-specific requirements, with special applications for retail, wholesale, services, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, non-profit organizations, membership businesses, and franchises. WinWeb industry solutions offer basic business functions, such as accounting, invoicing and business planning as well as industry-specific functionality, for example multi-location and multi-channel sales for…
Small Business Wisdom – Focus Groups
Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoons had this to say about Focus Groups:Focus Groups are people who are selected on the basis of their inexplicable free time and their common love for free sandwiches.Listening to some of the stuff these groups come out with, he has a point!
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