by chala | Nov 24, 2016 | Small business growth
Most mature businesses I meet today are built on referrals. What’s surprising to me that regardless of industry or size, the majority of B2B sales is still happening through someone you know. Nobody is talking about or trying to attract fresh new clients into...
by chala | Oct 19, 2016 | Small business growth
Stanford lecturer and author of the New York Times bestselling book Positive Intelligence, Shirzad Chamine claims that rubbing your fingertips together for 10 seconds can break you free of the negative thoughts that sabotage your business growth and success. Your...
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...