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Attracting Top Talent To Your Business Isn’t As Hard As You Think
Ask any business owner and they will tell you how difficult it can be to find and retain top talent. Recruiting and retaining excellent team members is critical to the growth of your company.
The secret to attracting high-quality team members is differentiating yourself from other industry players, and showing those folks how joining your company can help them reach their career goals. Today I want to share with you a few tips on how to do this.
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4 Reasons Your Business Needs To Be Self Sustaining
Business self-sustainability should be a goal of every business owner, whether your business is large or small, no matter what industry you are in. There are many key benefits to running a self-sustainable business. This video discusses the top four.
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Letting Go So You Can Build Your Business
One of the most common questions a business owner asks when reflecting on his/her company and its performance is whether he/she is too involved in the day to day dealings of the business. A very valid question. After all, when you started your company, you...
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Death to the “Should”
I recently returned from a business planning retreat, where my mastermind group escaped to the mountains for two full days of visioning, strategy, idea sharing and prioritizing activities for the year ahead. During the course of the retreat, I met...
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3 Questions to Create the Future
People might think of running a business as a solo endeavor, but the truth is that none of us can do it alone. In order to make a big impact in or contribution to the world, we need to share our vision with others, inspiring and motivating them to join us....
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Make Q4 Count: 4 Plans to Jumpstart Your Company’s Year Ahead
How was your year? Of course, we still have a few months left. But it’s important to start reviewing what worked, what didn’t work, and why not, so that you can hit the ground running once January arrives. Q4 is the perfect time to plan. And no matter what...
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Stop Spinning Your Wheels: Implement Your Strategy and See Real Change
There are two steps to achieve a goal: plan and execute. Yet so often, businesses get stuck in planning mode and never move into action. This is exactly what happened for years with a new Kleriti client. During a recent strategic planning session with...
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What Improv Classes Taught Me About Business and Life
I recently wrapped up Level I improv classes at the Bovine Metropolis Theater in Denver. Going in, what I knew of improv came from “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” – a show I used to love! I admired how the artists on stage created real life out of thin air....
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Get Out of the Owner’s Trap and Get Back to Your Life
You started your business to be the boss and call the shots. To find flexibility and fulfillment. To create and to help others. But after a while, it started to control you. It sucked you into working around the clock to keep up, sacrificing time with...
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Level Up Your Business to Realize Your Future Vision
When you imagine your business five years down the road, what do you see? Additional locations? Increased revenue? More focused service offerings? Maybe you see yourself playing a different role than you play today, with the freedom to step away from your...
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Bounce Back: How to Rebound After a Business Failure
If you’re an established business owner, you know that business failures are the stuff of sleepless nights. And if you’re a newer business owner who is reading this because you’ve experienced your first failure, welcome to the club! Unfortunately, it’s not...
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Powerful Perspectives: Top 5 Lessons Learned From 5 Weeks Abroad
After five weeks traveling with my partner through Southeast Asia, I returned to normal life recalibrated, refocused and re-energized in a way that only comes when you break from the norm. Many of my takeaways from the trip translate into lessons for me as...
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Cultivating Culture: How to Build Transparency and Trust
Have you ever worked at a company where you were often in the dark about what was going on? Maybe the head honchos misled you, saying business was great just a week before dozens of people were laid off. Or maybe it was hard to do your job to your highest...
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3 Keys to a Stress-Free Vacation: How to Leave Your Business and Take the Trip You Deserve
Does the winter weather have you dreaming about warm, sandy beaches? Or do you long to hit the open road for a month-long summer adventure while the kids are out of school? You might think that all sounds great, but just isn’t doable — that your business...
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5 Ways to Stop Standing in the Way of Your Success
As a business owner, you typically start the new year with promises to yourself that this will be your most successful year yet. If you’ve made similar promises in past years but didn’t follow through, it’s time to consider what went wrong, so this can...
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The Ultimate New Year’s Resolution for Your Business: Let Go
The countdown to January 1st has begun, and many are in a mindset of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a familiar ritual to set goals for your business and yourself. You have high hopes for the coming year, and dive into Q1 with a hefty amount of...
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Best Business Practices to Keep Finances on Track
As a business owner, year’s end is a time to evaluate the overall performance of your company —whether or not you’ve achieved set goals and what projections to set for the coming year. One of the most important barometers of business...
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How to Price Your Services: 3 Keys to Knowing Your Worth
Have you ever felt the fear of losing a client if you didn’t price your services to meet their needs? You’re trying to grow your business. You want to receive referrals. You’re scared of turning them away because you have no idea when another...
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Why You Need a Sales Funnel and 6 Essential Steps
The term “sales funnel” has been used by marketing and business gurus ad nauseam. There are multitudes of information on the Internet covering how to structure, optimize and automate sales funnels, all which vary greatly depending on your business model and sales structure.
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Business Goals: Where Do You Spend Most of Your Time?
In order to run a sustainable company, there are many areas of business that need daily attention. In early stage companies, I often see business owners focused solely on growth and expansion, with no time devoted to establishing the necessary...
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Small Business Epiphany: You Can’t Do it All
As a business owner, you likely wake up at least one day a week thinking, Where do I start? Whether it’s a mental to-do list, an overflowing email box, a development conversation with a team member, a networking meeting with a potential power...
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Are You Working Harder or Smarter?
I bet you’ve heard the saying, “work smarter, not harder” many times throughout your professional life. But have you ever really stopped to think about what it means? Or contemplated how to infuse “smarter” ways of working into your daily...
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The Effect of Motivation on Productivity
Do you struggle to inspire the performance you desire out of your teammates? Have you done the hard work to implement processes and systems to support your team, and you’re still not getting the productive output you desire? At the core of this issue is motivation...
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Why Productivity Matters, and Ten Productivity-Boosting Tips
When was the last time you said, “so much time, so little to do? However will I pass the day?” In all likelihood, it’s been a really, really long time. If you can ever remember that happening. More likely, you are overcommitted, overbooked…running from training...
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Three Documents Your Employees Need
Your team is the greatest asset you have as a business owner. Your team keeps your operation running day in and day out, delivering services, addressing client complaints, managing vendor/partner relationships and otherwise keeping the wheels on the bus. In order...
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How to Create Processes to Streamline Your Business
What percentage of what you do in your business is repeatable? 50%? 70%? Think about the time you spend tracking leads, issuing proposals, invoicing and accepting payment, checking email, scheduling meetings with networking connections, following up with clients for...
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Five Scenarios that Demonstrate why Your Business Needs a CRM System
If your business is not currently using a customer relationship management (CRM) system, you're leaving money on the table. Likely a lot of money. Inevitably, as you network, build business relationships, receive referrals, make referrals and serve clients, you...
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Your Small Business Operations Manual: How to Create a Framework for Success
Small business owners wear many hats -- steering the ship, keeping the team motivated, generating business and delivering client satisfaction. Few owners, however, take the time to step back, observe, evaluate and document every aspect of how their business does what...
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How to Defeat Digital Distraction: Five Tips to Take Back Control
Digital distraction is the result of living in a world where our phones light up and ding incessantly. With email and text messages, phone calls and social media alerts, it never seems to stop. There is an expectation that we can be reached anytime, day or night. And...
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How to Set Productive Goals for your Small Business
The New Year is a time for setting goals. You reflect back on what you accomplished in the past year and what you hope to accomplish in the coming year. You think about who you are and who you want to be, personally and professionally. As you set goals for the coming...
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Expert Tips to Create Accountability in your Small Business
In our busy business lives, juggling multiple priorities, sometimes our best-laid ideas never make it to fruition. We have every intention of launching an industry-changing product or writing a life-changing book, and know that we are perfectly capable of doing it,...
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Three Tips to Maximize the Flexibility of Working from Home
When you office out of your home, everything from hygiene habits to work/life balance changes. One of the greatest benefits that comes from working out of your home is increased flexibility. No one is staring at their watch waiting for you to walk through the door in...
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How to Beat Procrastination with One Simple Solution
A marathon runner knows that, in order to cross the finish line at the end of the race, they must put one foot in front of the other. If they think of the 40,000 steps they'll need to take to finish the race, they'd likely be stuck sitting at the starting line,...
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Organization: The Foundation for Top-Notch Customer Service
Think of the last interaction you had with a business - maybe a local restaurant or shop, a medical facility, a call center. No matter the business, was it a pleasant experience or a less than ideal one? Given the choice, is it a business you'd interact with again? If...
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The Curse of the Ledge
How many of us get trapped in the same pattern of behavior because it's known and comfortable? We stay in the same dead-end job or the same unfulfilling relationship or at the same less-than-ideal weight for days that turn into months and months that turn into years....
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Three Organizing Tips to Keep Receipts Under Control
Everyone accumulates receipts throughout the year. Whether paper or electronic, personal or business, the receipts pile up (sometimes quite literally)! Organizing receipts throughout the year can help you avoid a frantic search for the information you need to file...
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Four Ways to Maximize Productivity this Year
There's no better way to reach goals than by finding ways to do more with our working hours. Simple changes can go a long way to reducing stress and achieving more. Here are four productivity optimization practices to get into right away. #1 TAKE TEN It’s easy for...
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