By Cliff Ennico (Part One is here.) Once you have made up your mind that it’s time to start delegating to other people and growing your business, and decided upon what to delegate, only three questions remain: To whom do you delegate? How do you delegate? How do you avoid losing control of your business? […]
Fact: If you don’t delegate, your business will never grow sufficiently. Absent of delegating many of the jobs within your business, the only way to grow the top line is to raise your prices. You could increase sales, but to achieve that in any great measure, you would have convert more prospects, which will take […]
Brother recently released its annual small business survey and one of the notable results revealed was that small business owners continue to feel stressed out and stretched thin by their work: 35 percent would like to cut back on their roles and responsibilities. 26 percent want to take more time off. 20 percent feel they […]
It’s not often that someone falls into the position of running of small business with all the personal tools and leadership skills needed to do a great job being the boss. Frankly, the only real way to learn how to be the boss is to be the boss. When that happens, our strengths and weaknesses […]
I’ve seen figures that indicate fewer than half of all small business owners take vacations. From my observations, that sounds about right. It has certainly been true for me, and I think it’s a sad state of affairs. With summer just around the corner, let’s give some serious thought to vacationing this year. A good […]