• 5 Essential Habits to Protect your Most Essential Commodity

    A couple of years ago I was at a leadership conference where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions, talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you spend your energy is how you measure your success.”



  • Entrepreneurship … a Leap of Faith

    Entrepreneurship is a multifaceted adventure that, without a doubt, closely resembles a roller coaster ride. When you begin an entrepreneurial journey or “ride,” you are aware of the gamut of experiences, both disappointing and rewarding, that you will encounter as you undertake this challenge.



  • How Advertising and Marketing Differ!

    Bringing a good sales turnover is the idea of advertising and marketing. We want to distribute our goods to most of the people to pass on maximum benefit to the society. This will automatically bring more revenue to the entrepreneur.



  • My First Website

    At the end of December 2006 my husband and our launched our first company. My husband is an IT guru and my background is marketing, so using our combined skills we decided in May 2006 to develop a website. We chose on an auction website as our first company, as we thought this would be fun, engaging and challenging. We recognised the obvious dominance of other sites in this space, but didn’t let that deter us, as we felt we could offer an alternative. We put together a business plan and decided on a January launch date, with the aim of targeting people who wanted to swap or sell unwanted Christmas presents. From this spurred the name of our site www.unwantd.com – which we purchased through network solutions.



  • The Time Factor

    As an entrepreneur you may find yourself wishing you had more time to work on your business venture. The thing is you already have the time; you’re just not using it properly. Time Management is vital to the success of any business; you need to get a grip on it from the start to ensure the success of your business and your sanity! If you stop and think about how you spend your time - do it now - I'm positive you'll find time in the day or evening where you can concentrate on your venture.



  • Simple Tips for Successful Online Marketing

    Simple Tips for Successful Online Marketing



  • The Insider Secrets to not Losing your Shirt on your Client’s Next Project

    My client Anna called me last week, completely frustrated, about an unfolding nightmare with her new client. Anna had recently accepted a new client who had an exciting project. They discussed what specific needs the client had, and Anna determined that it would fit in her schedule. She received a down payment for the work, and scheduled the time in her calendar.



  • Coaches, are you Pricing your Products Wrong?

    Coaches, are you confused about how to price your e-books, teleseminars and other information products? Do you set a random price hoping that this turns out to be the "magical" price that your customers are willing to pay? If you answered yes to this question you are losing a lot of money because you didn't price your products correctly.



  • Goal Setting That Works

    RIGHT NOW is a great time to set goals, and set your motivation. Here is a process that you can use to create goals that make a difference for you.Your goals must have meaning for you. Your odds of failing are greater if you're trying to reach someone else's goals. Use this exercise to define your success for the upcoming months.Sit back, relax, and imagine yourself one year into the future, looking back on today. What was it that you decided to do that made you so successful? Perhaps it was that you decided to invest a certain amount of money (money success isn't about how much you make, but how much you keep). Perhaps it was that you decided to own a certain car, home, or other luxury. Perhaps it was that you were able to take your dream vacation. What ever it was, define what created your feeling of success and satisfaction.Wasn't that a fun exercise! Write down that success vision and attach a copy to your calendar a year into the future, so that you can go back and check on your of success at year end.Create a step-by-step action plan. Write it down along with your success vision for the year. Break down the plan into smaller pieces that you can accomplish in 15 minutes a day.Perhaps it means increasing your performance at work by 5 percent by going in 15 minutes earlier. Perhaps it means going to evening classes once a week to gain a new skill. Perhaps it means turning off the TV a half hour earlier so that you can review investment opportunities.While your goals should be a bit of a stretch, make sure that you can accomplish them. There's no sense in setting a goal to win the Boston Marathon if you haven't run a mile since high school. Yet you probably can increase your fitness so that you can run a 5k race this summer.You must be able to measure your goal. What will you use to gage how you're doing? Perhaps you'll use your savings account as your gage, getting ready for the down payment on that new car.Create interesting ways to track how well you're doing and stay focused on achieving your goals. Will you make a little thermometer and color it in? Will you have a little grid and check off your success? Will you have a little racecar that you move around a track as you stay on track? This may seem goofy, yet you'll discover that this little trick works magic in keeping you motivated.Build little celebrations into your plan. It could be as simple as a candy bar or as wonderful as a massage or a celebratory lunch at your favorite restaurant. Celebrations keep you motivated to see your success vision become reality. Don't reward yourself until you deserve the reward.© MMVII Mark S.A. Smith. All rights reserved. Reuse encouraged and permission granted when including this copyright notice and contact information. http://www.OCEinc.com



  • 3 Warning Signs That Procrastination is Stealing your Life Away

    According to the dictionary, procrastination is defined as “to put off intentionally and habitually, or to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done”.