“We didn’t get the house tea blend with this shipment and we’re almost out.” Mary had reluctantly interrupted our meeting. She knew that Joanne held our pow wow sessions as inviolable, but she also knew that a Tea House without tea wasn’t good either. Joanne excused herself to straighten out the situation. She was back […]
You’ve heard of Maslow’s Heirarchy of needs, right? The same concept applies to business. You start by established your product/service, your marketing, your staff and all those other things that make your business work. Then you get a sense of security, knowing that it will all carry on again next week. The sense of […]
This is my favourite kind of business book- the information is presented as a story. We read the story of how Kathryn was thrown into the CEO position of DecisionTech. The current CEO was the founder of the company who had great startup skills, but lacked the ability to run a large business. Her executive […]
I’ve been thinking, and that’s always a dangerous thing. If we’ve been doing small business for a million years since the first people traded fish for rabbits or salt for apples; and there are a billion small businesses on the planet right now; why do we all feel alone and overhelmed? Why do we feel […]
Emails are becoming a big issue. We are finding our inboxes full of real email – even after all the spam has been purged. Here are a few tips Frieda found to deal with email overload. This overload makes it even more difficult to reach people. How do you reach someone who is not responding? […]
Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking another language when someone reflects back to me what I just said and it sounds very different than what I thought I said. There are many reasons for that and I’ve listed a few here: How many languages do you speak? I speak accounting, business, construction, community planning, environment, […]
The business Owners Success Club will meet this Tuesday at 9:30-11:30 to discuss communications. We will expand on last month’s theme, which was Branding. Everything we do communicates our brand, so let’s work on making sure we are communicating the message we want people to receive. For more information about communications see this article.
I had a revelation at a Friends of the Kentville Library meeting this week. We were talking about starting to collect memberships. I immediately jumped into planning mode, yet again. I looked at the faces looking at me and all past discussions about this subject flashed through my mind. And there have been plenty of […]
Entrepreneurial Planning Create / clarify your personal vision Create a new vision for your business that supports & aligns with your personal vision Reconcile your new vision for the business with your key business stakeholders Create & implement an action plan to move from your current business to your new vision Project Management Break the […]
The next meeting of the Business Owners Success Club is Wednesday, December 6 9:30 -11:30 in the Kings CED boardroom. In December we will work on Prioritizing. In November we worked on Project Management. We want to look at the coming year, plan the seasonal marketing opportunities and actually be ready for them when they […]
