Three Ways to Add Leverage to Your Small Business

Leveraging allows you to achieve your desired objectives with more speed and less effort. Read about 3 of the many ways in which you can employ leverage in the running of your business.

Small Business Success Secret: Focus on Your Genius Work?

Do you know what your genius work is? It's the highest and best use of your time. It's the best leverage your business has in the marketplace. You're doing your genius work when your activities are producing the greatest results in the shortest period of time.

Focus On the Prize

People talk to me about making personal and professional changes in their life. I hear comments about how hard they think it will be, concerns about their ability to be successful, pressure on themselves to produce results, etc. The anticipation (what you imagine or assume will happen) of the experience can be daunting enough to deter a person from taking the first step! How often does the anticipation match the reality of what happens? If your thoughts and emotions are getting in the way of what you want, read on for 10 tips to get going and stay moving.

Who Are Your Ideal Clients? And What Do They Want?

As a self-employed professional you need to be selective about your clients, even in today's economic climate. Use this 7-step process to identify your ideal clients.

Solo Professionals and Consulting

So many very smart folks are retiring early these days and then they get bored and well industry keeps calling them back to help out. Why? Well these top professionals have made many friends and people in the industry know of their expertise. I have met people who have tried to retire 5-times or more over the year only to keep taking on new jobs.

Which Industries have the Most Solo Professionals?

The other day someone asked me what a solo professional was, so I explained this to them and then they asked me a question which made me stop and think a bit. Their question was simple enough and it was indeed a very good one as well; Which industries do you think have the most solo professionals.

How To Benefit From Freelancer Jobs And Freelance Talent

Nowadays sites where freelancers can register themselves for free and buyers can post projects for free are getting very popular. On these sites buyers post projects without paying any money and freelancers or programmers bid on these projects to make money. Learn how running such a site could be useful for the webmasters who make huge commission to them as they deduct some percentage of money from freelancer earnings.

Professing to be a Solo Professional?

Do you call yourself a solo professional and have you launched your consulting business? Are you sure you are the solo professional that you profess? So many people are not the professionals that they claim to be out there. How can I make such an unprofessional comment you ask?

Pricing Your Artwork - What To Do, What To Do

Do you know the value of your work and how to price it? Pricing is actually not that difficult. Let me make it simple and easy. First-

Solo Professional Systems and Logistic Consultants

Every corporation wants to make more profits and that means it needs to make more sales and become more efficient to reduce costs. On the sales side of things there are 5:1 more consultants than on the streamlining side of efficiency.

Get Your Invention Product Out There On A Shoe-string Budget The Henry Ford Way

Henry Ford knew a thing or two about inventions. Although he had very little formal education, there were those who called him a genius (they meant an invention genius). So there is a lot any inventor can learn from the life of Henry Ford that can end up being pretty useful, even today.

Dealing with Bozos

Anyone who's involved in their own business has been there, or will arrive soon. There are unscrupulous people who waste your valuable resources. I conclude God has a funny bone when He created such creatures.

Choosing the Right Virtual Assistant (VA)

As the summer starts to draw to an end and the children are heading back off to school, I'm sure you’re giving some thought as to your upcoming projects; perhaps now is the right time to get some additional help. Hiring a Virtual Assistant is an economical and efficient way to get some additional help - they can take some of the admin tasks off your hands, so that you can focus on these projects. I’d like to share with you my tips for choosing the right virtual assistant for YOU.

You Can Get A Fast Start On Your Rainmaking Today

Rainmakers are people who attract new clients to their service businesses or professional practices. Get started as a rainmaker today with these easy ideas. Learn how to start down the road to becoming a highly successful rainmaker in less than 10 minutes. Find out how one activity, if done in daily small steps, can produce outrageous success within a year.

Long Term Portrait Sales

Just like a savings account, long term marketing might save your business.