Posts by Rebecca
What Is Your Next Customer Doing, Right Now?
How do you know who is ready to buy from you, right now? How do you know who else would be willing to buy from you, if you managed to speak with them? How do you know who else would buy from you if only they knew that you existed? How do you know who…
Read MoreHow To Balance Strategy And Culture
This blog is first and foremost about business strategy. To create loyal customers, to nurture dedicated employees, to manage the business process, all comes down to a solid strategy. Within that strategy, some things are written in pen, and some things are written in pencil. Company culture is written in pen. And is written well…
Read MoreThe problem with offering discounts
Discounts and low prices are not the same things. We all know the problem with competing on price, and discounts mean the opposite: the price is higher than desired, so a discount will allow the client to make the purchase. In which case, discounts are a safe negotiation tactic, right? Wrong. Let’s take a closer…
Read MoreWhy You Need To Be Loud … Remotely
Working from home, remote working, staying at home while trying to work… whatever you call it, some version of the home office is probably here to stay. When you were at the office, you were physically present and could be seen at your desk, in meetings, and doing all the work things. Now your presence…
Read MoreHow To Balance Working In Your Business and On Your Business Webinar
On Wednesday June 10th at noon I will be presenting a free webinar through the Ace Women’s Business Center. First, a word about Ace: Ace is a Georgia’s largest small business focused community lender, offering financing and education targeting women, people of color, and low to moderate income business owners. ACE is certified by the…
Read MoreGoals Are Not Smart
Achieving work-life balance means knowing what makes us content, both in work and outside of it. Letting your employees bring their personal goals into the workplace will create a strong working culture, with a happy team. The secret is having everybody use the same structure for managing their goals, so they can be aligned with…
Read MoreIt’s All About Service
It has finally happened: it is 2020 and your business advantage is all about service. Back in 2018, I spoke at Jim Moran Institute Small Business Leadership Conference. My talk was a workshop to focus attention on how customers buy, rather than how businesses sell. The theme that year was “It’s all about the customer”.…
Read MoreHow Rocky Balboa Handles A Crisis
In the first four Rocky movies, he fights three different opponents. While, admittedly, the narrative arcs of the movies follow similar lines, the training plans differ significantly from one movie to the next. In each film, he has different strengths and weaknesses. Most notably, a hit to the eye damages his peripheral vision for the…
Read MoreConsultant Corner – Networking right & wrong
Networking is about building a reputation of trust. Don’t be the guy who just hands out his business card. Spread information, not paper.
Read MoreStart New Habits Today
Goals, Success, and Growth don’t come about with plans alone: they require good habits. Habits — or behaviors — that produce the right results. But habits, we all know, are hard to break. This means they are also hard to form: for every new habit we must break an old one. Here are a few…
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