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New Year, Tidier Office: Tips to Reduce Your Paper Clutter
It's 2017 and despite the massive advances in technology, I still don't know anyone who operates a paperless office. One of the main challenges my clients report is how to deal with the paper clutter in their office. Often they have piles of papers stacked up on any...
Maria Williams on What She Gets Out of Zokit Membership
Maria Williams of Words You Can Use specialises in website copywriting, blogging, and public relations for small businesses. Here she tells us what she likes about being a member of Zokit and how it helps her grow her business and develop as a business owner. Find out...
What Businesses Get So Wrong With Social Media
There’s no shame in getting confused by social media – there are so many platforms, everything moves quickly and it can seem more like fun than work (and often more like work than fun!). A lot of businesses have the sense they should have a social media presence, but...
The Sale is only Half the Story!!
Why do most businesses fail? Not wanting to dwell on the negative but business failures occur when they don’t make enough sales. Or, put another way, they are not attracting and keeping enough qualified customers. Having a robust sales process allows you to...
This ONE THING is The Best Predictor of Your Success – But Most Business Owners Don’t Even Realise It!
Ever wondered what the biggest success factor is? As a business owner you've probably given this some thought... What's the best use of my time and what's a total waste of my time? What am I currently doing that gets the best outcomes and what am I not doing that...
Love Your Financials
In and around Valentine’s Day this year 2016 I am reminded of the KISS Mnemonic. In my book it stands for Keep It Simple Simon. I recently looked up HSBC’s Accounts and they were 160 Pages. When I assessed customers’ accounts in the 30 Years with the Bank it was...
The 5 B’s of Business Success
As business owners, directors and leaders it can be easy to drive our business activities forward so hard and fast that we lose sight of the bigger picture. Working in and on our business is only part of the game. For short, medium and long term gain we need to...
What’s Your Word of The Year?
Reflection, Goal Setting, Vision Boarding and Planning ...are all great activities for starting the New Year afresh with renewed inspiration. But have you chosen your Word of The Year? This is one word you can take forward that drives your goal getting, illuminates...
The ONE Biggest Reason Start Ups Succeed…
Bill Gross speaks about his surprising finding that is relevant to start ups and more established companies. He looked at 5 Success Factors: IDEAS TEAM BUSINESS MODEL FUNDING TIMING Finding that the factor with the biggest impact on start up success is.... (well,...
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Starting with WHY, Simon Sinek outlines the Golden Circle model and explains how great leaders inspire from thinking, acting and communicating from the inside out.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Quick Video
Stephen Covey's best selling book The 7 Habit's of Highly Effective People has had an enormous positive impact on business owner success since it was first published in 1989. It was one of the first books on this topic I read, back in my twenties. I remember mentally...
Nail Your Networking with this ONE Thing!
Blog POST Nail Your Networking with this ONE Thing! One of the biggest mistakes that people new to networking make is seeing everyone as a prospective client.Networking is not about selling to the room, it's about forming strategic, working relationships.Read On ...
An Important Business Lesson from Downton Abbey
What's the point of Downton Abbey? Why was it created? To entertain? To provide escapism on a Sunday night? Keep UK citizens Calm and able to Carry On? To promote Britain to America? Or give the wonderfully talented Maggie Smith something to do? ...well maybe all of...
It’s Not WHAT You Know, It’s not even WHO You Know, It’s…
Addicted to Information Obsessing about certificates and qualifications Name-dropping to impress It sometimes seems the business world is full of people swollen with data and hot air, smartphone in hand and ready to pop at any moment. I've certainly been guilty! It's...
StoryShaping for Business Success in 3 Steps
We are hard-wired to listen to and actively engage with stories. Brain scans show parts of the mind that light up only when we are hearing stories. Stories are how we, as humans, make sense of the world. Yet many business owners and brands don't share their stories as...
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