December,2009

20 Creative Marketing Ideas For Small Business

20 Creative Marketing Ideas For Small Business

Let’s face it, sometimes ideas are just hard to come by. We are so overloaded with things to remember and things to do, that coming up with some newer ways to help promote our business can [...]

Have you acknowledged and appreciated yourself for 2009?

Have you acknowledged and appreciated yourself for 2009?

With the year coming to a close, it’s time to acknowledge and appreciate yourself for everything you’ve accomplished today, throughout the year, and in life. How many times have you succeeded in the past month? Are [...]

Your customer is king… do you treat them like one?

Your customer is king… do you treat them like one?

There is no doubt that 2009 has been tough, many businesses haven’t weathered the storm, many have profited on the situation and many have managed to stay afloat. Most have broke even and have to try [...]

Forget New Year’s Resolutions – Create a Plan For Success

Forget New Year’s Resolutions – Create a Plan For Success

Why is it that everyone, myself included, keeps saying, “How can it possibly be December already?!” When leading busy lives attending to careers, business, family, friends, and trying to take care of ourselves, time just flies [...]

Getting your business model right for service professionals

Getting your business model right for service professionals

If you have enough clients to keep you busy, you must be making a good living, right? Well, not necessarily. Some of the busiest professionals around aren’t earning enough to pay their bills. On the other [...]

The only way to become amazingly great at something

The only way to become amazingly great at something

  “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - Albert Einstein Very often you’ll see [...]

Are you niche enough?  Choosing the right niche for your business

Are you niche enough? Choosing the right niche for your business

Finding and owning a niche is one of the key things that any small business can do to succeed in today’s competitive market.  It is vitally important that you distinguish yourself from your competitor.  It isn’t [...]

Protecting your greatest asset

Protecting your greatest asset

This the third article from the Booming Baby Business panel session at the British Library on Tuesday.  Following the session from David Warrilow, of LONDON IP, here is a brief Q and A about protecting the [...]

Yoomi – from idea to business success

Yoomi – from idea to business success

Ok, so Jim Shaikh, the inventor of the Yoomi baby bottle is not a woman, but I was so inspired by his story at the Booming Baby Business event at the British Library on Tuesday, that [...]