by Jon Dale | Aug 24, 2011 | Marketing, You
The following passage is from a book called “Make Your Small Business Thrive” by Kevin Gilbert. “Thinking is free, so do it more often. It is amazing the amount of people who do things without knowing the reason why. Remove yourself from the hurley...
by Jon Dale | Aug 23, 2011 | Marketing
We would all like customers to just come to us – but this is just not the reality of the world. Business operators need to be out and about “walking the talk”, building a referral engine either through networking or raving fans (i.e. happy customers). How much...
by Jon Dale | Aug 18, 2011 | Back Office
It feels a bit strange to write a story about another business, one which has many flaws and frustrations (bureaucracy, anyone?) and to be telling you all how helpful it’s been for our business. It has, though and this despite its flaws. BNI is a global...
by Jon Dale | Aug 3, 2011 | Marketing, Sales
I’d like to share another article with you that I wrote for our local newspaper, The Echo, a few weeks ago. “I thought I’d tell a true story about how business coaching can help a real business owner change his business. The subject of the story is...
by Jon Dale | Aug 2, 2011 | Marketing
After 3 weeks of late nights watching the tremendous efforts of our Aussie, Cadel Evans, in winning the 2011 Tour de France (and the first from our country), I am sure I am not the only one who looks forward to an early night’s sleep after it all ends…the 2 am endings...