Are people talking about your business?   Business owners, especially those with smaller businesses, will tell you that one of the main ways they get new customers is through word-of-mouth. However, very few of those same business owners actually do anything to purposely generate word-of-mouth.  They’re just happy if it happens. Think about some of  your own experiences or maybe businesses […]
Happy Independence Day – What's your inspiration?
  Photo by loomingy1  Happy belated 4th of July / Independence Day!  This is a holiday that always gets me to thinking about things – what a great country we have and about all of the people that have sacrificed themselves over the last 233 years so that we can enjoy the freedoms we enjoy […]
The Power of Positive Thinking?
So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]
How to carve a pumpkin – or why systems are key!
  photo by ms.tea  Halloween is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start thinking about carving pumpkins.  I remember learning how to carve a pumpkin around our kitchen table from my parents and older brothers.  There was always an element of creativity in terms of the design and certainly some of us […]
Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. Prior to hiring Chris,  I had heard of the concept of a business coach, but I didn’t know I needed one. Now I can’t imagine not having a coach. No matter how large our company grows, I expect to have a coach.