Most entrepreneurs and solo entrepreneurs are just too damn busy. Keeping up with your daily business to take time to reflect on the year, reviewing it and setting goals for the year ahead is a must for me. That’s how I connect the current year with the upcoming year. Never take for granted looking back...
Life is a never ending process of learning in various levels. We should never stop learning by training ourselves through continuous education. There are plenty of ways to learn new things that you’re interested in or you want to get better at in your chosen industry. We live in an incredible era of disruptive and...
There are plenty of people that I know that possess great heart and the willingness to give but then they have so little to offer. There’s a phrase you probably heard of before and it goes like “You can’t give what you don’t even have”. Why is this? The answer is simple, they have not...
A few years ago, I encountered the Pareto Principle or commonly known as the 20/80 principle through a book I read. I became interested in it that I began to research more about it online. Once I started to learn more about the process and principles around it, that’s when I started to apply them...
Mistakes are inevitable. We’re all humans. It is bound to happen and impossible to prevent. Same thing with client work. When you miss a detail or the deadline, when you deliver the wrong project or have a difficult client. I’ve probably seen it all throughout my years of doing client work. It’s important to know...
Getting a client or a company to sign on a contract with you is due in part to a great proposal that you presented. We all can agree that proposals are a key part of winning a new client and bagging a key project. Below are my top tips on getting your chances of nabbing...
This is from an essay which B.C. Forbes, a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine, wrote in 1917 called “Keys to Success”: Your success depends upon you. Your happiness depends upon you. You have to steer your own course. You have to shape your own fortune. You have to educate yourself. You...
You’re required to wear many different hats as an entrepreneur, more than you can count to be honest. Sometimes you’re the CEO, and sometimes you’re the janitor, it’s no joke. It takes a toll on you and you’re required to change hats all, day, long. So, what can you do to manage your emerging stress...
How many clients do you have when you started the year? And how many have you gained or lost as of today? I asked this because simply, repeat clients earn you a lot more for your time. Every new client or customer you get comes with an “acquisition cost”, factor in your advertising cost to...
Have you heard about the “Elevator Pitch”? It’s a 30 second answer to the “What would you do?” question. It’s so used widely because delivering it should take you the length of an entire elevator ride. This is the way I’ve pitched first time to everyone to get to that very important sit-down meeting with...
Have you ever been offered a job, bought a car or a house? If you have, then you must have had the opportunity to negotiate. Sharpening your negotiation skills will benefit you and your business significantly. I negotiated one of my business from being acquired for 60% of what I was asking, to 100%. I’m...
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