Category Archives: Enterpreneurship

How to alienate your customers in no time at all

Customer service is an integral part of any successful business. There will be times when you are unable to answer your phone and some services or questions that require a phone call. Some businesses have turned to automated systems to diffuse some of the questions. However, I think that most of the time, they have…

What methods of payments do you take?

Every once in awhile I run into a service provider who doesn’t take any payments except checks and cash. I was that way at one time too. Now I find that expanding the methods of payments that I take has opened the doors to many more clients. Just like technology, methods of taking payments have…

How does knowing your learning style make you more successful?

Your success in business or a job and life in general is very tied to your learning style. I didn’t figure it out right away but somewhere in the last few years I realized I am not an audio learner. I learn best visually. When someone gives me verbal directions, I do my best to…

Escape the Pitfalls of Small Business

Everyone embarks on small business differently. Some people, at least in the beginning, come in with a full plan for everything. Hence the words “business plan.” Others kind of fall into small business and fly by the seat of their pants. They use experts a little. They probably have a banker that sets up their…

Learning commitment from a night crawler

How do you suppose I could learn commitment from the night crawler you find when you look closely at the middle of the above photo? Commitment comes in many forms. As high tech as I am from many perspectives, living on my computer 10-15 hours per day, there is a very low tech side to…

How do farmer’s markets grow business?

When I think of organic gardening, farmer’s markets, and healthy foods, I tend to think about old ways and old school. I romanticize things and planting, growing, homemade bread, and such make me ponder the value in a basic life style. But if you are spending your time growing vegetables and flowers and then marketing…

Who owns your business?

As a business owner, we are taught that the customer is always right. If you clearly define the rules, that works. But if you muddy the water and are ambiguous about what you offer, how you provide it, and what the limits are, you leave the door wide open. Suddenly it isn’t you owning your…

How to stop thinking about marketing

We often look at something and think it is too hard or unnatural and so we run away from it. Exercise might be one of those things for you, it can be for me. I look at people who are achieving great things and think, “I can’t do that.” I doubt that I could flex…

Streamline your productivity with these 2 tips!

  Everyone seems to be complaining they have no time and need more ways to be more productive. If you are like me, you find that you want to achieve results with your phone calls and make sure you don’t have your time wasted by calls you really don’t want. Here’s two strategies that have…

How a glitch in my smart phone solved a different problem

As I saw increased growth in my clients and colleagues using smart phones, last April I gave in and picked up my first smart phone. I was going to a conference and I had been blocked from tweeting the last one with my laptop so I thought it was time I joined the world of…

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