by chala | Sep 14, 2016 | Small business growth
You know that exciting sales meeting you spent months getting? The one where you were supposed to close multiple five or six figures? After all, didn’t you just spend your own dime flying in your whole team for it? Well, the buyer disappeared on you. The sheer...
by chala | Aug 10, 2016 | Small business growth
The fact that walls are there to stop not us but the people around us who don’t want it badly enough is a quote I read from the author of ‘The Last Lecture’, Randy Pausch. Randy was, among many things, a professor of computer science at Carnegie...
by chala | Jul 13, 2016 | Small business growth
Did you know that the best solutions to your business problems can come from outside of your industry? A study conducted by the Harvard Business Review looked at how 3 different groups (roofers, carpenters, and inline skaters) would come up with ideas on how to...
by chala | Jul 7, 2016 | Small business growth
I often hear my own coaches’ voices in my head so I thought of how this voice-in-head phenomenon is related to our success and failure in business (as well as life). So here’s a client who has a wine event business. We repositioned her from an event...
by chala | May 18, 2016 | Small business growth
As one CEO I told this to said ‘are you calling my small business a pig!?’…well I kinda am, but listen to why. When Your Small Business Is the Pig When something is ugly, we call it a pig. It’s unfair, it’s untrue and it’s probably...
by chala | Apr 14, 2016 | Small business growth
I’m in the very exciting stages of reinventing my business to double my multiple six-digit sales this year. So when I meet business owners who shockingly tell me that they don’t want to grow, I have to take a step back and think. You’re Either...