Small Business: Smart Solutions – Mick Hawes

Being efficient isn’t always a good thing, in fact often it’s a bad thing! Being efficient is better than not being efficient but there is a much more worthwhile focus if you want business success! The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Efficiency isn’t always a good thing!” appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

We are funny cattle! It’s amazing how often we continue to do things that just don’t work. Or we find things that do work and stop doing them! You might be thinking “that’s just ridiculous” but I bet you do it! The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – “How’s that workin’ out for ya?” Dr Phil appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

We are mostly trying to get the best advice and guidance we can either for free or cheap. That advice tends to be very expensive more often than not because it’s just untested opinion The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – The Most Expensive Advice You’ll Ever Get Is Free Advice appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Doing the opposite of what the majority of the population thinks is right is often a great place to start, if you want to be successful with just about anything. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Your Sales Will Increase, Once You Stop Selling appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

As they say “success leaves clues” and you don’t even have to be Sherlock Holmes to find them. They’re the habits that successful people perform daily. And guess what unsuccessful people have their habits too. The post Small Business Smart Solutions – Small Business Success (And Failure) Is a Habit! appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

The creator of Alice in Wonderland,  Lewis Carroll’s famous quote “if you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there”, really should be the small business mantra.   The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Mantra for Small Business appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Traditional advertising on mainstream media is a waste of money for small business. Surely if you were going to invest money you would want to know what return you were getting. You need to know your customer to match the right message to the right media The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Don’t waste your money with traditional advertising on main stream media! appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

We all want to get the best results we can, as fast as we can with the least amount of effort right? So we need to know where to put our focus when building our business, so we can get the best return on our efforts. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Who is most important to your business, You, your team or your customer? appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

There’s some things in business that if you don’t get to straightaway, it doesn’t hurt too much, it can catch up. There are other things in business that will hurt you forever because there is no catching up The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – This fast train is leaving the station, you’d better get on it! appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

The Jim Lovell quote mentions these 3 groups of people, I suspect if you’re even reading this you aren’t in the third group, but are you in the first or the second? The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – The 3 Types Of Business Owners, Making It Happen, Watching It Happen, Wondering What Happened appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

You Can Kill Your Business With Your Mind, and I don’t mean like in the movie “Carrie”, but the way you think can seriously help or harm your business. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – You Are Killing Your Business With Your Mind! appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

It’s easy to get distracted with all of the “bright shiny objects” that are put in front of us every day. They all promise an easy road to success and wealth. And yes some really work but it’s a huge task to dig through all of the dirt and rocks to get to the gold. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Is there one “Most Important” thing in small business? appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Whether you are building a letterbox or a 2 storey house, the quality of the plan will determine the speed, and quality of the outcome and the amount of unnecessary costs of mistakes and rework. Your business is no different! The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Skyscrapers and garden sheds need a foundation appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

There is a new style of team or staff management emerging. It seems to be getting much higher levels of productivity than the old school people management practices and philosophies. The question you need to ask yourself is, is updating what has been working for you in the past worth the effort. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – The times they are a changin’ appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

When you feel good you perform well, and when you perform well, you feel good. What a great upward spiral! The only trouble is it works just as well in reverse and it’s much harder to pull out of a nose dive. It takes a lot more energy to reverse a downward spiral than just […] The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – So Much To Do, So Little Time… OMG! appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Are you really missing out on tons of business if you don’t use technology like websites, social media, blogging and video? and will your business go the way of the dinosaurs if you don’t get your technological act together! Can your business actually survive and thrive using old school business practices? The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Use it or lose out appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

There are so many aspects that need to be managed and mastered in a small business to ensure success, but there is one that above all that determines not only success but survival. The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – No Sales, No cash, No business appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

A stitch in time saves nine, prevention is better than the cure, failing to plan is planning to fail etc etc. There is no shortage of sayings, quotes and the like that are for the most part wise and correct, but do we really bother to heed the message and consciously implement the wisdom, the […] The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Hiring right can save massive headaches and costs appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Customer service must be driven by the customers perception of great or poor, not then business owners or staff’s point of view. What do you have in place to measure and monitor your customers opinions and implement improvements? The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Customer Service! What customer service? appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Social media presents huge opportunities for you to grow your business, but just like when you meet people for the first time, your first impression can be a game changer The post Small Business: Smart Solutions – Is Social Media Good Or Bad For Your Business? appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.