April 15th, 2009 — MarketSmart
Here are 2 of the latest marketing tip submissions from our contest. You can get more tips, or enter your own for the chance to be published in our upcoming book ‘Small Business Marketing on a Milk Money Budget’ 365 Powerful, Cutting-Edge—and Affordable—Marketing Tactics
Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know. Watch this video and find out!
December 14th, 2008 — MarketSmart
Just this past Wednesday, as many Angelenos were heading home after a long days work, a select group of smart-minded LA small business owners gathered for the monthly O.N.E. (OneCoach Networking Event), which was once again held at the inspiring entrepreneurial work space of BLANKSPACES, designed and owned by Jerome Chang.
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November 23rd, 2008 — ThinkSmart
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At the recent BNI International Conference in Los Angeles, almost one-thousand small business owners gathered to learn new revenue generating strategies, network with other like-minded entrepreneurs and create strategic relationships geared towards growing their business.
The special guest presenter, Brian Tracy, spoke on business building topics such as doubling your income and achieving financial independence. And as much respect as I have for the brilliance that Mr. Tracy brings to the business and sales world, I couldn’t help but think that he was not presenting any new ground breaking material…there was no rabbit in the hat, no magic blue pill…though as I looked around the room, all I saw was big eyed optimists looking for the ‘Answer’ to solve their problems, to get them focused, to generate more business and money than they could ever imagine. And as I continued to listen to Mr. Tracy present the importance of how the 80/20 rule relates to your daily activity and the overall results you are getting in your business, I noticed a strange act among the small business owning participants. In unison, they were nodding their heads up and down, they were taking notes, they were turning to the person next to them to say things like; ‘yes, he’s right’, or ’so true’. Now I understood. It wasn’t the fact that the information was not new. It was the unfortunate reality that small business owners are NOT doing what they are supposed to be doing on a daily basis, to generate the desired results that they truly want in their life and their business. The average small business owner is overwhelmed, unfocused and wearing al the hats! They know all of this stuff, their just not doing it.
What does this mean?
Well sure, it means that to increase revenues and profits and grow your business, you cannot allocate the same amount of time to all of your business management activities.
And of course, the secret to running a successful business—whether you have $1 million or $1 billion in annual sales—is to find out what you should be doing and hire, barter or outsource people to do everything else.
But this information alone is useless…you must TAKE action! You have to DO something about it!! If you choose to download this worksheet, promise me you will commit to taking action.
November 9th, 2008 — LiveSmart
On any given day in Los Angeles, a small business owner has the choice of participating in a variety of activities to grow their business whether through a workshop, a tele-seminar, a networking event or maybe a special presentation. This coming Tuesday November 11th at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles, - two top entrepreneurs, Bill Harris
and Roger Hamilton have gotten together to explain how to thrive in tough times.
SInce we at WorkSmart LA are huge proponents of spending quality time ‘working ON your business’ as well as ‘working IN your business - what better way then surrounding yourself with motivated like-minded entrepreneurs on the road to success.
Presented by XLNT Events, a forward-thinking events company that puts on a variety of inspirational and empowerment events around the United States, seek out speakers from all over the world and bring them to events in cities around the USA.
In this informative and fast-paced evening, you’ll learn:
* How those who know what to do can turn bad times into golden opportunities…
* How you can position yourself to be part of the solution and, in doing so, become wealthy while others are losing everything…
* How you can take advantage of an amazing breakthrough that protects you from the crippling physical, emotional, and psychological effects of stressful times while making you more creative…
About the presenters;
November 2nd, 2008 — ThinkSmart
That was the overall theme last weekend at the Mind, Marketing and Millions small business conference in Marina Del Rey, hosted by OneCoach International - in uncovering the 3 essential ways to grow any business and triple revenues;
1. Generate more profits per sale
2. Generate more sales per customer
3. Attract more clients
It’s that simple. Really. download - 3 ways to grow your business
The challenge most small business owners face, is that they don’t know what they don’t know - so they end up focusing on just one of these ways…can you guess which one? Yep, attracting more clients. Which turns out to be the most expensive way to grow a business.
This past weekend, while a majority of Angelinos were spending their time working IN their business - some 200+ LA small business owners filled the Marriott in Marina Del Rey to spend time working ON their business and tripling their revenues.
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