by Michelle | Apr 9, 2013 | Building Leverage, Business Start-up, Customer Experience, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
5 Tips for Finding & Catching Them Now Easter is over and all those ‘pesky’ holidays early in the year are now over, business life can resume normal programming. And for most of us that means getting on with new business development. When you first start out...
by Michelle | Feb 26, 2013 | Business Start-up, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Now that we’re well past the holidays , January thinking and planning time – business life is returning to normal. But what do you do if you’re still quiet? In the early stages of building your business, there are a million things to do that keep you busy and...
by Michelle | Feb 12, 2013 | Business Start-up, Outsourcing, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Recently I took a look as one does at the end of financial year at how the business was doing. And despite the lingering tail of the GFC that is still affecting business confidence, our business was doing okay, well even. Given the SOI business has now operated for...
by Michelle | Jan 29, 2013 | Building Leverage, Business Start-up, Customer Experience, Do what you're great at, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Research says you only have 7 seconds to make an impression. Yes, 7 seconds. And let’s face it, by the time you’ve started speaking you’ve probably already used, maybe even wasted, a couple, if not all of those precious seconds. This Blog Features: What matters in the...
by Michelle | Jan 15, 2013 | Business Start-up, Customer Experience, Outsourcing, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
One of the biggest things that you’ll have to face as a business owner is a seemingly endless array of distractions – on a daily basis. Distractions from new product/services decisions, new opportunities, deadlines, suppliers, clients, business partners, the family,...
by Michelle | Dec 18, 2012 | Business Start-up, Life Balance, Small Business Planning
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got a million things on at the moment. You’re probably preparing for 2013, going to all those festive season social and business events whilst trying to tidy up 2012 – all of which make you even busier than...