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Are you a team player? That is a question you often hear corporate business managers asking their staff or team leaders. But the question should be directed at the entrepreneur and small business owner also. In fact, it may be the first question a business coach will ask when working with a small business owner. 
No start-up entrepreneur in his right mind would do a top-down forecast by calculating how much of a market one needs to be successful. This is where – typically – an entrepreneur starts with a large number (e.g. “the global market for widgets is $100 billion”) and work down to extrapolate projected sales from that figure.
It’s coming to the end of the year and 2011has generally been a poor performing year for most businesses, especially in the retail and tourism sectors.
With Christmas fast approaching, many businesses are hoping they are able to improve their overall sales results with consumers are more willing to spend during this period. B2B business should also be thinking how they can boost sales to cover any slow period after Christmas and at the beginning of the year.
Hopefully, you’ve started your Christmas preparation. If you haven’t then these tips might come in handy for you.
We all know about the recent Qantas debacle, where Alan Joyce famously initiated the grounding of all Qantas planes worldwide affecting almost 100,000 passenger’s travel plans. Whilst this has been a topic of discussion and the press having field day publishing all the updates of this crises, I have yet to read an article that looks at the situation from perhaps a business perspective.
It’s a challenge for the typical business owner to invest time and money into coaching. This economic environment is certainly conducive to negative mindsets. After all, isn’t coaching one of the last things people would spend any money on at the moment? Not so.
Many entrepreneurs, small business owners and practitioners are feeling the economic pinch right now. But here’s the real truth: these are the precisely the times when business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs need questions answered.
