How to Cope With Job Transitions & Retrenchments
Just this week, I was made aware of 4 senior employees in various companies who were recently retrenched. One minute they had a job and the next minute they didn't. As you may know or can imagine, it is a
See the Results
As you may know already, real, effective networking takes a lot of time and effort and although the least costly of all marketing strategies, it can be costly, especially for businesses that are really struggling and do not have 2 cents to rub together. Coffee meetings and networking events do cost, even though generally minimal.
According to plan
I am right in the middle of renovating my home right now. If you have ever renovated a living space, one thing you will learn quickly is that you wish you had made all the changes you wanted to before you moved in, however, that is not always possible. It is only after living in a space for some time that you discover what you do and don’t want. The same applies for your lifestyle and your business. Life or business make-overs do not always go according to plan and just like the renovation of your home, it can lead to much stress when setbacks and unexpected expenses occur while you’re knee-deep in your renovations. I, however, have learned that by keeping your eye on the vision of what it will look like when finished will get you through the thick and thin of it.
Easy Pricing Strategies to Determine Your Rates
It might just be the most stressful decision you ever have to make: what to charge? You’ve got the competition to consider, or maybe not. If you are very credible and have enough evidence of that in the form of repeat business, charge what you know you are worth or another way to do this is charge the value of what you are delivering to the client. Write down all the things you do for your clients and what value that adds to their life and business and then put a number to that value. Other aspects to consider are your own skill set, what you perceive to be your skills (yes, this is different from the former for most of us), what your market will pay, your location, and a host of other variables. Working it out can feel like a hurdle you can’t quite get past, but the more informed you become, your answer starts jumping out at you.
What does being the HERO in your life mean?
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10 Ways to Lead by Example
Good leaders must lead by example. Through their actions, which are aligned with what they say, they become a person others want to follow. When leaders say one thing but do another, they erode trust, a critical element of productive leadership. Here are 10 of the dozens of ways to lead by example.
Venturing into the unknown
What is familiar and known is comfortable. We know what to expect. We know how the story goes. And we know how we will respond. This applies to our lives and our businesses. There is nothing wrong with being comfortable and content. It is nice and important to be able to rest up and enjoy what we have created and worked hard for, but the trouble sets in when we become too comfortable for too long periods of time. Why? Well when we are too comfortable we actually get bored, we become stagnant and although we know we need a change, by this stage we have become lazy, complacent and also to fearful to make a change; fearful of losing what we have.
Sales Funnel
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Does Getting More Clients Require Sales
In my experience getting more clients is the number one pain for start-up and small or medium-sized businesses. These businesses generally do not have enough clients and they do not know HOW to get more clients. They are often told