Do you need help running your business?

Are you like so many of us? When you started your business did you say, "my schedule will be flexible" or "my time will be my own", perhaps, "I make my own hours"?

Only too soon, you realized the priorities of projects, deadlines, and clients all need to be tended to for you to actually have a business. Their needs dictate your schedule.

Oh wait! What about bookkeeping, marketing, travel, conference calls, your website, scheduling meetings, networking, inventory management, researching the right blog platform, finding an SEO consultant, a copywriter?

Oh yeah, THIS is running a business...

Are there days you spend more time time setting up meeting than you do meeting with clients, how many weekends have you spent doing your bookkeeping? Or if you are like me shuffling receipts from one pile to another...

Even if you handle 90% of your business do you feel that extra 10% stands between you and a truly successful business?

Some one else can understand the scribble on your receipts, remember that you like an aisle seat and contribute to clean air initiatives when you purchase airplane tickets, or coordinate 5 people on a conference call over 3 time zones just a good as you can.

It might take some time to find the right person to work with you but they are out there...in my next post we will discuss some best practices for outsourcing and hiring contractors.

In the meantime if you have questions or comments on this topic please post away!

Good Intentions

I believe we always want to start out on the right foot...my new years resolution (I should say one of them, right up there with lose 5lbs, get more sleep and eat less chocolate) is to be more consistant with the things that will help me grow my business and give some small and medium size companies, a value add - which is what I hope this blog will be.

I know that not everyone who reads this will find it enlightening. But, I am putting these thoughts and ideas out here - in cyberspace, with the intention to offer some advice and tips that I have learned along the way. These are many of the same techniques I use with my clients while helping them grow and market their companies.

When we talk about good intentions, we are saying, "this is what I really want to do, what I intend to do". We are not saying, "by God with out fail, I will never miss a day at the gym, I will never miss a blog posting, I will never think a bad thought about the smelly guy on the bus next to me". We are affirming that we want to our best.

So as you go through your day, your work plan, exercise plan or weight loss plan, be good to yourself. Know, you will forget, sleep in or eat that extra piece of super dark chocolate with that small glass of wine because it taste so good...

And, wake up tomorrow and put your best intention forward, again.