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The competitive advantage of listening

Want to stand out from the crowd and impress customers and contacts in 2012? A simple investment of your time to listen could just do the trick. One thing I’ve observed with the rise in media [...]

Standing out from the crowd: how to become a recognised expert

There is no getting away from it: to become an expert you have to know your stuff and have the experience to back it up. But there comes a point when knowing your stuff is one [...]

Publish or perish

When you place a call to a prospective client, does the person you are calling already know your name, even if you have never met? When new clients are referred to you, do they often say [...]

Big Surprises for Small Businesses

After lots of surprises of our own, we were intrigued to know what had surprised you the most once you had started up your own business. So we asked “what has been your biggest surprise since [...]

The control freak’s guide to delegation

Delegation makes the business world go round – and we all need to learn to play our part. Many of us wouldn’t be in business if our clients didn’t delegate to us, and what goes around [...]

Don’t stop your marketing when things get busy

It’s where we all want to be… Business is picking up, the marketing is working, and your clients know where you are and what you have on offer. You’ve got more customers than you can cope [...]

10 Simple Rules for Growing a Successful Business

After spending 16 years running six businesses, I’ve learned a thing or two about what it really takes to create success as an entrepreneur. And I’ll tell ya, most of what my Mom told me—and most [...]

The Seven Flaws of the Small Business Owner

Small business owners often share personality traits, like confidence and determination, and we operate under similar circumstances, like limited time and high stress. These commonalities lead us to also share a set of behavioural defects that [...]

Don’t wait to be discovered, reveal yourself to the world

Most entrepreneurs know there is no “fast track” to success. No magic bullet or ultimate “overnight success” secret. But there’s always that temptation to wonder what it would be like to have Oprah call, or to [...]

Stamina: An essential ingredient for the journey into a new business

Anyone who has started a business will know that it is indeed a journey that takes longer than most of us realise at the onset. To see it through to the end will require one essential [...]

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