When you ask any successful entrepreneur to recommend the best business books have you ever noticed that many of the suggestions are books that were written years ago? Each self-made millionaire is encouraging us to read about business fundamentals that have stood the test of …
Home-based or City Centered Take the Time to Design Your Office
It doesn’t matter what size business; solo entrepreneur to small business of six co-workers good office design doesn’t have to be expensive or hard to achieve. Layout says a lot about your work culture and brand. Individuality and fun are important too. At my office …
Emails Still Have a Place in Business
The end of 2014 was full of bold statements foreshadowing the end of emails. A quick look at my inbox was substantiate this is far from true. As with so many business tools emails have just settled into their niche. 2015 finds them somewhere in …
How Busy Professionals Can be More Productive
There are some fresh ideas on Hubspot’s infographic 13 Productivity Tips for the Busy Professional Jill CrosslandJill Crossland is a business and marketing consultant who can take your business and social media to the next level. www.jbcrossland.com
Our Continuing Quest for Work-Life Balance
It is so easy for entrepreneurs to slip into work first life second mode. Grabbing extra time in the evenings, weekends, on vacation to do just one more thing. Worried that if we stop something will slip through the cracks, a potential client will be …
Early to Rise Makes You a Successful Entrepreneur
YouInc’s recent article What Successful People Are Doing While You’re Sleeping In includes the usual advice that we have come to expect but the They’re Staying Sharp and They’re Staying Current are worth a closer read. I have always been somewhat surprised by how many …
Marketing your service based business
Business and marketing consultants may try to convince you otherwise but there is a difference between how product and service based businesses market themselves. Even with something as basic as visual content it is a lot easier to promote your deliciously photogenic cupcake business than …