One of the biggest challenges, and one of the hardest things you do as business owners is hire and maintain a team of people to work with you. It seems to be one of the most difficult things to get right for small business owners and entrepreneurs. How do you find and keep good people?…
If you knew only one thing about marketing that would get you great results and sustain your business, it would be this… Yes, the Marketing Triangle is all about matching 3 simple things – your message, your media and your market. That’s it! Pretty simple and yet so crucial to your business. The marketing…
Not too long ago, a coach, mentor and friend asked me this simple question… “Diane, what do you do for fun?” The scary thing was that I had no real answer for her. I started off by saying “I have fun working in my business,” to which she quickly asked for an answer outside of…
There’s a lot to do in any business, and in a small business it’s easy to get a bit overwhelmed with things and begin to do too much of the work ourselves. It’s even easier to start to say things to yourself like “it’s faster for me to do this myself than to show somebody…
I sincerely hope the headline of this email got your attention – and more importantly, I hope you’ll read this short note and watch the video. It’s that important to YOUR business! Here’s the thing, everybody says they want to get more done, be more productive, and make more money…but very few actually do anything…
There will always be things to do in your business and things that go undone…sometimes that fact feels overwhelmingly overwhelming! One of the times we feel most overwhelmed is when we give up our control, and forget we own our business. See what I mean here… Do you do that? Do you let your vendors,…
Yes, the one thing most people fear more than death is public speaking and recently a client admitted she was right there too. She felt like she should be speaking, she thought it might even help her grow her business, and she had requests from other people in the industry to do a webinar on…
Well, the first “Implementation Coaching Event” of 2015 is well underway and I’m so excited I can hardly stand it. It’s a small group, and we’re going to change some businesses and some lives in the next 2 days. Before I get to the video for this week, I wanted to let you know you…
With all the talk of the Super Bowl winding down, I thought this might be a good time to address a question I seem to be getting a lot lately. How do you know when it’s the right time to invest in certain tools for your business, AND how do you know which tools are…
Do you ever feel overwhelmed? How much is overwhelm costing you in your business? Do you get what I call the spinnies? There’s no reason to let overwhelm, or anything else, cost you money in your business. As a business owner, you just have to know and accept that you’re never going to be 100%…
