Sales is the lifeblood of small business success.  You can have the best product, the best service in the world, but without closing a sale, it doesn’t mean anything.  Unfortunately it can be difficult to get that sale closed, people may like to buy, but they don’t like to be sold. With that in mind, […]

Business growth can feel really challenging – you figure a few things out, you achieve some success and now you’ve got even bigger obstacles in front of you! In fact one of the biggest mistakes made is when people talk about a growth curve. What does your growth curve look like?  If it’s not flat, then it’s […]

  photo by KM photography  I’ve written before that the secret ingredient to success is confidence.  A confident approach to things will open doors in ways that can seem almost amazing – you’ve heard people talk about ‘con men’…con is short for confidence, it can be magic. However confidence doesn’t mean that you have to […]

  photo by Striatic  I came across a great video (thanks to My Venture Pad) by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) that has some really impactful and timeless advice.  It’s only a short 8 minute video, but there are a lot of really important ideas that come out of this. The first thing that stands […]