Your business has awesome potential. You have everything headed in the right direction, and now the pieces of your plan will fall neatly into place. NOT.
I don’t want to be a discouragement. But nothing worthwhile has ever been easy to develop. Your ideas are still seeds, and will be for years! Those seeds need lots of watering and oxygen – and sunlight will only help. Yep, a gardening analogy from an organic gardener!
[Read more…] about Greatness Starts Little And Thinks HUGE
If you were on the design side of the conversations that go on when a website is being developed, you’d be amazed at the differences in opinions between different companies when it comes to designing a website. Business owners ready to redesign often have ‘ta-da’ ideas for their new website, and some design teams really rally to that. Making a website ‘pretty’ is fun work, and can go as far as your imagination, skill and bank account let you go.
Function, searchability, and user behaviors are a little more tasking, but if you ignore those things, your marketing ‘hub’ is handicapped. Pretty, but handicapped. Can you have a website that’s pretty and functional, with easy searchability? Yup. But some things just don’t work together, and a good team knows what to avoid so a pretty website is a serious asset, too. [Read more…] about Website Design Isn’t Just About Appearance
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Business owners like us can tend to be control freaks, am I right? I mean, we want to know we can trust the end result, and someone else might screw it all up with a simple mistake.
That kind of thinking will NOT grow a successful business! Leadership is all about making sure we teach others to do what needs to be done. Business owners by their very nature are called to be leaders – in their places of work, involvement in the community, and even in their families.
Leadership sometimes gets a bad rap. Depending on your background, it’s easy to mistake leadership for overbearing, brow-beating and finger-pointing, and scolding, but that’s not it at ALL.
Real leadership empowers your team to do what you do, and think independently to improve your original ideas. When you’re truly leading, you’re leading by example. What does that even mean in business?
[Read more…] about What Would Happen if You Had an Empowered, Independent Staff?
