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We are small business/professional people turned online entrepreneurs . We enjoy teaching other people how to do the same. We have a good understanding of just how traditional small business can struggle in todays economic situation and believe we provide a great solution to this struggle. Providing a solution however is only one part of the equation, we also believe that most if not all people need a hand to get started in any new venture and so not only do we provide a product we also train you to use the product.
Thinking is Great But Action is What Counts
It is fine to spend some time thinking and planning when you get involved in a new business or you if you are already in business. In fact if you don't then you are most likely to cause yourself many problems. However you can have the perfect plan and the perfect product but if you dont take ACTION then nothing will ever happen. Action is key to any business succeeding, without it you will end the day in the same place you started the day. So take action now , it is better to do and fail than not to do at all.
Ten Tips for Nonprofits When Creating Business Ventures
Learn how to ensure your nonprofit's commercial venture is a success.
Ten Tips to a Mutually-Beneficial Cause Marketing Program
Learn how your business have a positive social impact while differentiating itself from the competition through a mutually-beneficial cause marketing program.
Advice for Small Business
I have been recognized by the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity as the National Entrepreneur of the Year. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has awarded me their top honor, the Blue Chip Enterprise Award. Steve Forbes included me, along with Donald Trump and Tom Monaghan, as one of the Twelve Great American Business Successes in his 2000 book. This certainly does not mean I have all the answers, but I have identified a few of the questions.

Ten Tips to Competing in Challenging Times
Competing in challenging times requires a continuous rethinking of current strategies. To help you stay on top, here are 10 tips for fine-tuning the way your business operates.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned: 10 Easy Ways to Save on Business Expenses
Whether adapting to declining revenue, or simply looking to increase profits, business owners and non-profit executives are always looking for ways to save money without decreasing quality, customer satisfaction or efficiency. The first, most obvious cuts that most organizations have already implemented over the past couple of years, involve laying off non-essential employees and/or freezing vacancies and cutting all non-essential outsourced services. If there is a silver lining to the recent recession and subsequent slow recovery, it is that whatever you are buying, the market is likely soft.
Keep Your Friends Close, Keep Your Competition Even Closer
Although our economy has been struggling for the last few years, it has presented a lot of opportunities that weren't present before. Companies that you viewed as your stiffest competition are dealing with the same obstacles that you are and if you pay attention, you might be able to capitalize.
Small Business Jobs & Credit Act: What’s in it for Small Business?
On September 27th, President Obama signed into law, the much awaited Small Business Jobs & Credit Act. I’ve been surprised by how little most small business owners seem to know about the provisions of this law and what is in it for them. The most highly publicized feature of the bill is the $30 Billion dollar small business loan fund. For many or most small businesses, this may be the least relevant feature of the law. Other features of the law include tax breaks for small to medium sized businesses, tax incentives for equity investors in small businesses and some significant changes in SBA lending programs.
Small Business Advice
Starting a small business is even tougher than a company that is well off because there are many factors that you should consider developing. In terms of advertising, you need to think creatively as you are working under a budget that has nothing to waste.
TREAT YOUR SMALL BUSINESS LIKE A HOBBY AND FAIL!
Nathan R Mitchell, Small Business Coach, Author, Speaker, and Founder of Clutch Consulting Tulsa OK, addresses the implications of treating your small business like a hobby, not the profit generating machine that it can be.
Business Lessons Learned At The Mall
No offense to my mall merchant brothers and sisters, but a trip into the deepest jungle is more appealing to me than a trip to the mall. I get no joy out of trudging from store to store, attempting to communicate with salespeople from other planets, browsing discount racks of last season's dollar merchandise and peering into windows at mannequins that seem to be in some sort of inanimate pain (why can't they make a happy mannequin?).
Be Careful What You Wish For
Well, my friends, like the Terminator, politicians named Clinton, the ghosts from the movie Poltergeist, and that corn on the side of your big toe: I’m back. There are just some things that won’t go away. Sorry.
Six Key Ways to Promote Your Ezine & Grow Your List
A large subscriber list can keep your business consistently full with clients. Six key ways to promote your ezine and build your subscriber base.
Ten Writing Tips to Promote Your Business
If you would like to write to promote your business and are perhaps stuck for inspiration and ideas, here are some tips to get you started. Writing can be a very effective tool for attracting clients and opportunities and growing your business.
Mastermind Your Way to Business Success
The benefits of participating in a mastermind team are many. If you want to pull together you're own business success team, here are some tips to get you started.
How Effective is Your Sales Cycle?
If you are an independent professional or small business owner providing services, here is a simple four step sales process you can use to close more sales and expand your business.
Who Am I Now?
Typically, at the start of a new year, many of us feel the urge to set new goals. The slate feels as if it has been wiped clean with the sweep of the clock into a new year, and we are inspired to imagine we can accomplish great things.
Learning to Zigzag
If you own a business, what could you try that you've never done before? Take the more interesting path to reach your goals. Step off the well-trodden, predictable path and learn to zigzag.
Activating Your Vision
Do you have a big vision for your business? It's a good idea at least once a year to set aside time to connect with your vision for your business and your life.
Position Yourself As An Expert to Increase Income
It's a fact that experts can command higher fees in their field than generalists. Specialized knowledge or services are more highly valued than general information.
How to Attract All the Clients You Can Handle
Ongoing marketing is an important aspect of any business. If you can 'systematize' your marketing, this will leverage your time more effectively, so that you can focus on what you do best, and still get the word out.
Get Clear On Your Priorities and Purpose
Here is a simple exercise to get you started on the path to running your business and living your life focused on your top priorities.
Think Small: Micro-Niche Your Way to Success
Conventional wisdom tells us to think big. Having coached hundreds of small business owners, I find the ones that have the greatest success tend to think small.
Six Step Checklist to Deliver Teleseminars
Chances are that you've attended a teleseminar lately. Why not create your own?
Twelve Creative Ideas for Using Teleseminars to Grow Your Business
Teleseminars offer a very versatile and efficient way to deliver your services and build your business.
Eight Powerful Questions That Will Change Your Life
One of the keys to living a life of passion and purpose is discovering your unique brilliance and living it. The following are some of the most thought provoking questions I ask my clients to consider.
Have You Narrowed Your Niche?
Narrowing your niche means positioning yourself more closely to the people or companies who could most benefit from your services. Choosing your niche market has many benefits...
Trusting Your Intuition: You Already Know What to Do
We are all born with intuitive abilities, which can be improved with attention and practice. Here are some steps you can take to make friends with your intuition, learn its language, and deepen your relationship with your wise inner self.
Who Is Your Business Mentor?
You might be just one fundamental element away from building the business and income you dream about. Web 2.0 has changed the playing field for marketing online and many old tactics that used to work well are no longer working effectively.
The Formula for Making More Money and Having More Freedom in Your Business
Trading hours for dollars in your professional service business will never bring you wealth or freedom.
Top Seven Business Tips for Women Entrepreneurs
Over the past thirteen years, I have worked with hundreds of women entrepreneurs as their business coach. I've noticed that many women small business owners experience the same challenges in growing and running their businesses, such as feeling overwhelmed and isolated, having difficulty keeping focused, not enrolling enough support, and not planning for growth.
The Power of Focus to Increase Productivity
Of all the issues that can sabotage your success, lack of focus is near the top of the list. In order to be really successful, you may have to have to whittle down and sharpen your focus so you can give more effort to fewer things. Here are some tips to help you focus on fewer things to be more productive.
Seven Key Marketing Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs
Here are seven key marketing strategies that work best for women entrepreneurs to market yourself and your services. Take action on any one of these items, and watch your business start to grow.
Five Basic Internet Marketing Strategies to Promote Your Professional Services
If you're not using the internet to market your professional services, you're missing out on expanded opportunities. Using the internet to promote your business will help you make the most out of your marketing efforts. Here are several very basic online marketing strategies to establish a presence online that will expand your reach to the global marketplace and grow your business substantially.
No Cost Marketing Strategies to Increase Sales
In these times of tight budgets, many of my clients are looking for low cost and no cost marketing strategies to promote their services and make more money. We still need to get the word out about our business and continue to be visible, and there are many ways to do this even on a limited budget. Here are four no cost ideas to promote your services and increase your income:
Relationship Marketing: The Secret to Small Business Success
If you're in business today, it's all about relationships. I have noticed that the more I focus on adding value and deepening relationships with potential and existing clients, the more effortlessly my business grows. I'd like to share a few tips with you that I've learned about developing relationships through web-based marketing.
The Four New Cs of Marketing
Marketing in this day and age needs to be a two-way communication. In a professional service business, it may make more sense to focus on the four C's of marketing rather than the more traditional four P's. They are much more customer oriented – and you need to think like your clients to do your best marketing.
Could Your Business Model be More Profitable?
When I first started providing business coaching services, I followed the time for money model that all coaches at that time were trained to use. I charged a monthly fee for two hours of time with me every month.

Are You Making These Mistakes at Your Website?
Is your website bringing you all the sales and opportunities you want? Over the years as I have studied marketing best practices and mentored thousands of women entrepreneurs in marketing and growing their business, I have observed what works and what doesn’t work in creating effective websites that sell.

Specialize, Simplify and Systematize to Grow Your Business and Income the Easy Way
I was teaching a marketing class recently to a group of coaches and consultants and said to the participants that you need to do just three things to grow your business: specialize, simplify and systematize.

Are You Hiding Out Or Shining Your Light?
In these times when business may be slow and people don’t seem to be spending as much, it’s easy to hide out and lay low thinking you’ll just wait till it all ends. You may think that’s a good strategy. I know I considered it.

Moving the Free Line: How Much Information Do You Give Away for Free?
Do you know how much information you should give away for free as a marketing strategy to attract more clients, and how much you should keep for you paid products and programs?

Are You Taking Your Place in the World?
I work with women to fulfill their purpose and potential through entrepreneurship. Yet many of these women lose sight of why they went business in the first place, and start to lose their passion and enthusiasm over time.

Five Common Mistakes Made by New Small Businesses
Five common mistakes that many small business owners make upon starting their first businesses.
Ten Great Ideas for New Income Streams for Your Service Business
What I have noticed with many of the service professionals I coach is that when I start working with them, they have only one source of income – and it usually means they are giving up all of their time to bring in the amount of money they want to make.

Stuck Launching Your Business?
If you or others you respect think you’re crazy for starting the business concept you’re working on, that is great news. That is where the best game-changers come from. But it is only the first step towards success. Here is the other one.

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Clearing Up The Myths About Seeking Advice and Help, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
How do you feel about asking for advice and for some form of help from others? Do you always resist asking, or do you resist until it is a last resort? Why do people delay making a justified and valid request for advice and help until they become desperate and in a state of panic? I continue to be amazed at the amount of misinformation and the number of myths that exist about asking for advice and help. During my entire career, I have heard business owners, senior executives and not-for-profit board members and executive directors utter “mythical” statements about seeking advice and help. And I have observed that these same people truly believe that these myths are reality. Here are the 5 biggest myths and some insights into what I believe are the 5 biggest “realities” of seeking advice and help from others.

Sage Wisdom About Borrowing Money For Your Small Business
"Use your credit. Your cash is always good." Sage advice about borrowing money for your small business.
Sales Secrets - The Best Advice
Some advice you receive naturally falls by the wayside. Some advice sticks to your ribs for a lifetime. See some of the advice that has made a difference.
WHY YOU MUST THINK BIG…AND SMALL ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS FOR SUCCESS
Steve Martin’s first huge comedy album was called, “Let’s Get Small.” I think that title is actually great advice for a business, particularly a big company. Because I find that the bigger they are, the worse they are at the small, but really important things that make it easier to do a deal with them. And I was just reminded of that fact recently.
Buying An Existing Business Part IX of IX
This is the IX Part of a IX Part series of articles discussing the buying of an existing, small business. In this article we offer some parting advice and tips to buyers seeking to purchase a small, existing business.
Internet Businesses - The First Advice You Must Listen To Before Any Other
Advice is cheap and anybody can give advice. But there are some advice that is worth a minute or two or your time.
A Three-Part Strategy to Maximize Small Business Cash Flow
It doesn’t matter where you look these days, you are always sure to find more business advice than you can shake a stick at, but how much of it is relevant to your business and to the issues that you are facing? Your number one priority should be to develop your own strategy to maximize your small business cash flow. Is it? When it comes to small business cash flow, we need to take a step back and stay focused on the small business basics. We want to increase your cash flow and to do that we need to increase the vitality of your business. Increasing the vitality of your business comes down to three main things: increase sales, reduce costs, and increase collections. Let's cut through the piles of small business advice and information that we get on a daily basis and see how those three objectives can help our cash flow.
Starting a small business-How to work smart not hard
Are you one of the many who dream about starting a small business? Do you struggle to find the right opportunity? Do you want to earn more money, work less hours and spend more time with your family and friends? If so here is some advice on how to find the best small business opportunity to suit your needs.

Give Your Startup Business the Edge it Needs
Many small businesses go out of business during, or right after, their first year of operation. This is why the advice is commonly given to have enough start-up capital to see the business through two years. Here is some advice to help you give your start-up business the edge it needs to survive into its second year.
Franchising - Great Expectations
It is vitally important to seek advice when purchasing a franchised business. Do not try and go it alone. The cost associated with seeking advice will potentially save you money in the long term. Seek advice from experienced franchise advisers. Do not be nervous to ask about their experience in franchising.
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