Working in Mastermind Groups – Three Things to Look for When Joining a Group
There are a lot of types of support you can engage in to help grow your business, like mentoring, training, coaching, etc. When you commit to learning and growing using these support systems you will always take away something of value. Today I’d like to talk about three things to look for when you are thinking of joining a mastermind group to get the support you need to grow your business.
Time Management: Prioritizing your tasks
I wanted to share a piece of my last newsletter article on prioritizing your tasks to help with time management because I feel the exercise is a really great way to start the process of freeing up your time. There are many great tools out there to help you manage your time. Here is one I like.
Building a Mastermind Group – Part II Commitment
To have an effective mastermind group you will need to have three things in place: Intake, Commitment and Rules. For Commitment a person must be able to book all meetings ahead of time and will commit to being at the meetings as if they were client sales calls.
Working with the Right Tools: Can laundry really affect my business?
Know what the key components of your business are and know what to do if they go down or are lost. You must have an alternate plan for the core processes so you do not loose current clients and prospects.
Building a Mastermind Group – Part I Intake
In a peer group filled with competitors people feel compelled to talk about how great things are going and may not feel safe to reveal to a competitor that their business is struggling in some aspect. No one wants their competitor to have that kind of edge.
Why Network: Do You Really Need to Attend to Get More Clients?
Are You Going to Network? It doesn’t have to be in a structured setting, but it does have to happen. Get out there and meet your fellow business owners, you will be glad you did.
There is no ‘I’ in ‘TEAM’ and no ‘TEAM’ in ‘BUSINESS OWNER’
When you saw, “There is no ‘TEAM’ in ‘BUSINESS'” you probably thought, well that’s just crazy. No business is successful without the people that help manage and run it. This too is absolutely true, but small business owners often forget this. We start a business on our own, taking on every position within the corporation, maybe hiring some skilled help for specific duties, but there is so much more we need support with. As Fabienne Fredrickson of Client Attraction is fond of saying, “Entrepreneurship is a full contact sport”
5 Ways to Use Your Marketing Plan to Define Your Business – Pricing
by defining all the costs involved in selling your product you just defined all aspects of the operation of your business. You know who is working for you, how you will manufacture a product, what hours are required to run you service successfully, etc.. The costs outline all aspects of your business, and knowing this will make writing your business plan much faster and easier.