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Business Owners Know Your Product Value and Make a Profit

Business owners are in the business to make a profit. As a business owner you must know how much it costs to produce your product or services. This cost includes your time, administrative costs, utilities, marketing and several other items. New business owners often forget to add the hidden time zappers into their fee or price structure. They are also often accosted by others who want them to lower their price or fee. Seasoned business owners may forget to add the cost of inflation into their fees or prices.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Business Owners: Stop the Snatchers & Grabbers – Part II

Snatchers and Grabbers are the people we meet that pretend they want to do business with us. You must identify who they are and how they operate in order to not give away your intellectual property, services, or products for free. I’ve enjoyed your feedback for my article Stop the Snatchers and Grabbers and for my free ecourse, Stop the Snatchers and Grabbers. The purpose of the free ecourse was to help you design your system so that you stop giving away products and services for free. Below are three more types of Snatchers and Grabbers. Stop these Three Snatchers and Grabbers:

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Business Owners: Use Social Networking to Get Speaking Invitations

As a business owner, I have had a presence on Facebook and other social networking sites for almost three years. Social media is a great way to market your business. But, it is also a great way to network with other business owners. In the past two years, I have been asked to speak to various Mompreneur Groups, College Student Groups, Chamber of Commerce events and Women Business Owner Groups. I have been also been the guest on various online radio shows discussing my ebooks and teaching my ecourses.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Why are you procrastinating?

Why are you procrastinating? Why are you making excuses? Why are you never completing anything? Why are you putting off until tomorrow what can be done today? Do any of these phrases sound familiar? We all procrastinate at one time or another. We all are guilty of letting our family and friends sabotage our efforts. We often allow this to happen because we do not want to hurt their feelings. We also allow this to happen because it is easier to allow them to lead us astray then to focus on getting the task accomplished.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Contact Cards help with Networking, Job Hunting during the Holidays

Alumni football games and the winter holidays are fast approaching and many people are traveling home to visit with classmates, family and friends in the next few months. If you are job hunting, these people are a source of referrals for job leads. You will want to have a contact card ready to share. This is not the time to write your information down on a scrap of paper and hope it is saved. A contact card is very similar to a business card. It shows you are a professional and are serious about promoting yourself. Listed below are the key elements you will want to be sure is on your card.r

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Small Business Owners Need a Board of Directors Too: Who's on Your Team?

Are you a small business owner? Do you try to do everything yourself? Are you becoming a master of a trades and expert of none? Do you have family and friends trying to tell you how to run your business? If you answer YES to these questions, I want you to STOP doing what you are doing and design your team. Large corporations have advisors and a board of directors. You need to surround yourself with advisors and have your own board of directors. The things you consider work someone else considers play.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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You and Your Business: Do You Have a Mission Statement?

Why are you in business? What problems do you solve for the consumer? Do you have ethical standards? Where is your moral compass pointing? When was the last time you reviewed your Mission Statement? Do you even have a Mission Statement? A Mission Statement is not just for business owners. Families can have a Mission Statement too. A Mission Statement is a clear concise statement that expresses your purpose in a way that resonates with employees and customers. There are three main parts to a Mission Statement: 1.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Learn to Feel Satisfied and Bring a Project to Fruition: Stop Being a Butterfly.

Are you like a butterfly? Starting one task and then before it is completed you are flying off to start another task? Is your mind buzzing with new ideas and projects? Yet, you have a pile of unfinished projects? We all the love the feeling we get when we get a new idea or inspiration. However, when was the last time you felt satisfaction in bringing a project to fruition? My five tips below will provide you the feeling of satisfaction of bringing a project to fruition. 1. Know Yourself. What time of day do you perform at your best? Are you a morning person? Are you a night owl?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Developing Your Presence with Your Business Card

Developing Your Presence with Your Business Cardn1. Make sure the print is large enough for others to read 2. Never run out of business cards 3. Invest in high quality paper and printing – no home computer junk 4. Do not write on the other persons business card in front of that person – do so ...

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Small Business Owners – Time Management & Employee Accountability

Time management is one of those terms that often makes people cringe. No one wants to be held accountable for how they spent their waking hours. However, when you don’t practice time management you often can’t account for what you did throughout the day. As a business owner how do judge a busy day from a not so busy day? Do you rely just on the revenue brought in each day? As a small business owner there a few ways you pay your employees and the way you supervise or manage their time is different for each one.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Branding Your Business at a Trade Show: What to Wear

Investing your marketing dollars in operating a booth at a Business Expo or Trade Show can be expensive. It is not something you do on a whim. You must have a strategy to stand out from the crowd. My three tips below will help you brand your business while at your next trade show or business expo.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Business Owners: Branding & Your Trade Show Image

February 20-26 is Build a Better Trade Show Image Week. This is a week for small business owners and corporate marketing professionals to get ready for business expos and tradeshows. Trade shows and business expos are a great way to get your business seen. However, if you do no prepare you run the risk of compromising your brand.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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The Latest Acts of Desperation – Business Owners Beware

As a small business owner you must protect your intellectual property and your list. But this is getting harder to do. Today, it is easier for people to steal your content and hijack your friends. This is wrong. But, I see it happening every day. It is typically a new business owner or social media user who commits the faux pas. Below are the latest acts of desperatio I see people committing daily.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Job Hunting 101: How to Write an Email and Get Your Resume Read

Have you ever received an email that you couldn’t read? I mean you really couldn’t understand what the person was trying to say? Or did you receive an email but did not open it because the senders name was offensive and you know that no one you know would have an email address that sounded like they were the next up and coming porn star? It is that time of year again when high school and college graduates will be updating their resumes and emailing them to hiring managers. My tips below will ensure that your resume does not get deleted before it is even opened. Five Tips for Email Success

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Employee Squabbles – Family Roles that Come to Work

Do you ever notice that sometimes your employees behave like children? Have you ever taken the time to get to know your employees? Which ones are first born, middle children, and babies of the family? Was our employee raised by two parents, one parent, or grandparents? Research has shown that we do bring our family life to work with us. The roles we had in our family when growing up follow us to our jobs. Yes, even you as the boss bring your childhood family role to the workplace. Five Common Family Roles that Come to Work:

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Branding Your Business: Interior Décor

As a small business owner you must protect your brand. Everything you say, do or send affects your brand image. Then, there are the unspoken things that contribute to your brand image. Your interior furnishings can make or break your brand too. My five tips will help you strengthen your brand by taking an honest look at your interior décor. My five tips for branding your business with your interior décor.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Branding Your Business: Personal Appearance & Presence

Branding your business is a necessary step in growing your business. Business owners need to take an occasional look at how or what they and their employees are wearing. Branding is also how you carry yourself, your presence. My five tips for branding your business with your personal appearance and presence will help you grow your business as you present the image that attracts customers that will buy from you.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Lead Generation for Small Business Owners – Part I of 5

Do you have a strategy for generating leads? You do realize that without leads you will not have new customers. Attracting and generating leads is a necessary component in growing your business. The lead attraction process is not overly complicated. In order to generate leads for your small business you must have a lead attraction strategy. There are five primary steps needed when designing your lead attraction strategy.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Small Business Owners: Get to Know Your Customers

October 21, 2010, is Get to Know Your Customers Day. This day is a great opportunity and a great reminder to all small business owners that you must get to know your customers in order to offer the products and services they want. My five tips will help you get to know your customers and continue to provide the things they want as you continue to grow your business. You cannot grow your business without customers. Five Tips So You Can Get to Know Your Customers

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Seven Tips for Building Your Business with Business Cards

October 10-16 is Build Your Business with Business Cards Week. Business cards are one the most inexpensive ways to promote your business. But, if you go cheap it can also hurt your business. Let’s take this time to review what is on your business card and the quality of the card. Go ahead pull out your business card and let’s take a look at it. My seven tips below will help you maximize your business card so you get the biggest bang for your buck and present you and your business in a positive manner. Seven Tips to Building Your Business with Your Business Card

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Christian Business Owners Still Get Paid

As a Christian business owner do you have people constantly expecting you to give away your services for free? Do people give you a sob story about why they can’t pay and expect you to give them a break? Do they call you a passive aggressive Christian hypocrite if you send out a late payment reminder? It can be hard balancing wanting to help people and not giving away your services for free. Remember, as a business owner you are in business to make a profit. You must protect your personal and business credit score.

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When Did You Stop Singing? It's time to open your mouth and be heard.

When Did You Stop Singing? It is time to open your mouth and be heard. There are three types of people singing at church. There are those that open the hymnal and move their lips, but no noise comes out of their mouth. There are those that sing beautifully and those that can’t carry a tune but belt out the tune at the top of their lungs. Which one are you? If you are the person that moves their lips but doesn’t sing reflect back and think about when did you stop singing and why? Did you stop singing because someone told you that you couldn’t carry a tune?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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You, Your Business & Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as “the obligation of organizations to take an active part in improving society” (Muchinsky & Culbertson, 2016, p. 268). You are probably familiar with Tom shoes and that when you buy a pair of Toms they donate a brand new pair to someone in need. As their company has grown and offered other products to the consumer so has their giving program. In addition to shoes, they now donate eyewear, exams, and surgeries as well as fresh water where needed. What does your business do to help others in need?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching
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Small Business Owners - Protect Your Identity: Keep Your Signature Safe

As a small business owner and business coach I am always on the lookout for unique ways to stand out from the crowd and be remembered. Earlier in the year, I recommended three resources that allowed the user to put their hand written signature in their emails, on their website, or other marketing materials. We all have seen them and they look unique and professional. It also shows off the person’s unique personality. It appeals to the reader.

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