Expand Your Small Business By Expanding Your Mind: Defining Your Niche
One of the advantages small business have over larger companies is the ability to change direction, or expand directions “on a dime”. If you aren’t making changes, you are going to get buried by competitors you should be able to compete…
A Typical Day — Why Technology is Worsening Both Customer Service and Customer Experience
In my short article entitled Has technology improved the customer experience in most companies? I put forth a number of reasons why technology is making customer service and customer experience worse. Here’s a typical 24 hour day — my day, in fact….
Small Business Owners Using Visualization to Stay Motivated
This is an excerpt from Perfect Phrases For Managing Your Small Business, which is available in book stores and at amazon. Please click the picture for more information. It happens to every small business owner. You get tired. Your motivation…
Cost Free Ways For Small Business To Compete With The “Big Boys”
It’s often the case that small businesses exist in a market that includes at least one, and often many other LARGE businesses or chains. On the surface of it, it would seem that the small business is in competition with…
If You Think You “Understand” Millennials, It’s Time To Evaluate Your OWN Thinking
Oddly enough, the Millennial Generation, also referred to as Gen-Y, is not so well defined, even when it comes to the boundaries for who fits and who doesn’t. One common range runs from 1980–2000 although some people use a narrower…
Employee Engagement Efforts A TOTAL Disaster
Estimates are that companies are spending around one BILLION dollars a year on improving “employee engagement”. It’s the new “thing”, the new management fad that is sucking money out of corporate budgets that could be going into concrete improvements for…
