I developed the FABULOUS Business SystemTM to help other service professionals who are working too many hours for dollars and can’t break free! This system has helped me multiply my income 10x within 17 months from when I first started my practice (and this was not even leveraging the power of online marketing). With all [...]
Today, November 16th 2011, is my son’s 7th birthday and I just had to include him in my post today! Having a birthday is an exciting event for some people, just like completing another year of your business may be exciting for some entrepreneurs. On the other hand, there are some in business that look [...]
I absolutely love marketing! Absolutely! What I’ve noticed though, since venturing online over 12 years ago is that everyone is selling you ‘marketing’. EVERYBODY and their brother! Yes I know. Marketing is vital. It’s important. It’s the lifeblood of a business. You must market to get clients. But here’s the problem I see. After marketing [...]
I did some work for a client and we’re at a standstill. This client absolutely refuses to get some support. “I have no money!” he cries daily, yet he’s making over $1.5m every year. I recommended he hires a proper accountant to manage his books and provide him with the reports he, as CEO, should [...]
I know I know..I can hear you asking. How can a recession be good for my business, when my income is down and my customers are taking longer to pay me?! Let’s look at the flip side of the situation then.
by nonprofitorgs The following is an excerpt from the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits and was published in the September 2011 edition of Fundraising Success Magazine (@frsuccess). However, do to word count constraints the content below is not in its full entirety. In the book, this section (taken [...]
Entrepreneurs are starters. They are big vision people. They have big goals and a huge vision that ultimately must be filtered down to run the day-to-day of the business. They start grand projects! They have big dreams! So where is the problem? Here’s the big issue that you, as a business owner and an entrepreneur, [...]
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, nearly half of all Americans are considered “financially fragile.” What does this mean? It means in an emergency situation they couldn’t come up with $2,000 unexpectedly in the next month, or would have to resort to desperate measures to come up with the money. What I found [...]
This morning, I read an article on Yahoo Finance, titled the ‘Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail’ and there, big and bold, they cite reason #4 for small biz failures is ‘poor accounting’. As a Certified Accountant who’s dealt with a lot of small businesses, THIS is my pet peeve! Here’s what the article says: [...]
In times like this when asset values are declining, savings accounts pay little interest, debt is piling up, and people are losing their jobs and homes, it can be easy to get down and start getting mired in the negativity. It can feel overwhelming that you can’t get a break, the odds are against you, [...]