Business

If you have ever talked to people in an online business group and ask the question – “When will you retire?” – a lot of people will say they’ll never retire. That might be true. Maybe you love your work so much you cannot imagine leaving it or retiring. 

Setting up a self-running business involves considering the aspects of your business that are most important to your customers that all businesses need to remain healthy. That means dealing with customer service - ensuring that they are getting their products on time and that they are happy with the service you offer....

As a small business owner, you need to be prepared when things go wrong. If you’re aware at all of “Murphy’s Law,” then you know that if something can go wrong, it often will. Well, it’s not true, but it’s good to pretend that it’s true so that you’re prepared for when...

One issue with working for yourself, from home, is that some people end up feeling very isolated and even bored. This might especially be true in the early days of building your location- and time-independent business since you’re probably not dealing with clients that often on a one-to-one basis. Instead, you are...

As you plan your ideal business that enables you to live your dream life, it’s important to think about what is important to you. For some people, time freedom is just as important as the ability to work from anywhere because they really want to be not only free of the constraints...

While growing a business is exciting, it can also be very stressful if things move too fast, and it grows too quickly. You may make more mistakes, some which can cause serious problems with your customers’ satisfaction, which can rub off on future sales.  Too Easy to Lose Track...

A bottleneck is just a term that describes the slowing down of productivity. If you look at a coke bottle, the neck is smaller than the bottle. The term signifies that a slow down or even a stoppage is occurring at a certain place in the plan you’ve implemented. Bottlenecks can occur...

As soon as you can. You don’t have to spend a lot of money. Hire someone to help you with a few tasks that take you forever or that you can’t do (or at least not without spending a lot of time learning something new). If you can’t afford someone outright, see...

Sometimes when you’re learning how to reach your audience while establishing expertise, it can get overwhelming thinking about all the ways you can accomplish it. While considering all the possibilities and the potential, you may start getting anxious thinking that you’ll never have time to do it all and, by the way,...

People love to say that there is no shortcut to business success. However, there is a shortcut to learning how to be successful in business. The simplest way is to find the person who is already successful in doing what you want to do and then follow the leader.