These are the ways to RELATE best with your prospects and customers, and involve ‘Pull versus Push’ marketing techniques

1. Have a sense of urgency and importance about yourself, not about other people. When you keep yourself urgent about doing the things that are important to you, this feeling translates. You don’t have to push others. People do NOT like being pushed. Instead, you can move or pull people along by being up to good things and by staying in integrity with yourself; this means, doing what you tell yourself YOU need to be doing in your life and in your business.

(By Mark Cadbury of Action Coach) Business owners often ask me what they must do to maximise the sale value of their business. It is not simply the bottom line that determines the sale price. The most common issue is that the business simply will not operate effectively without the business owner and, when this...

by Steve Little Where do people get the idea that in order to be in business FOR themselves, they need to do it all BY themselves. Do YOU believe that? I hope not… Now I’m not really referring to whether or not you have any employees or contractors working with you. By now I’m sure...

(By Mark Cadbury of Action Coach) Business owners often ask me what they must do to maximise the sale value of their business. It is not simply the bottom line that determines the sale price. The most common issue is that the business simply will not operate effectively without the business owner and, when this...

Tony Schwartz is the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything. 8:12 AM Tuesday January 17, 2012 I was sitting with the CEO and senior team of a well-respected organization. One at a time, they told me they spend their long days either in back-to-back meetings, responding...

The death of a sole proprietor in South Africa may lead to severe consequences and trouble for the surviving spouse and family. In most jurisdictions worldwide, as well as in South Africa, a sole proprietor’s business is not separate from the rest of the estate of the business-owner. This means that the business dies with the owner. The consequences may be dire!

13 May 2019 “I have an employee who posted very derogatory comments on Facebook about his manager, calling him lazy and stupid. I immediately arranged for a final written warning to be issued to the employee. However, the employee refuses to sign the warning and claims that he has been treated unfairly as he should...