If you’re going to start a business, you want to do everything to set it up for success and profitability.

Here are five steps to get you from where you are to a thriving enterprise.

Five Keys to Launching a Great Business

This is a good time to think about raising your prices. But rather than doing so arbitrarily, consider the value of results-based pricing rather than hourly pricing.   

Here’s a five-step process to execute that approach.

Five-Step Process to Increase Prices

This time of the year, it is common for proposals to get caught up in limbo. People are on vacation. Others are filling in. It seems like no one has the time or inclination to move your proposal forward. So, what can you do?

Determine the top three proposals you’ve got out and figure out one thing you can do to move each one closer to closing. Then do that!

Here are five ways to move them closer to closing.

Five Ways to Move a Proposal to a Close

How can you create sales emails that get opened? This is a real problem, because no matter how much time and effort you spend writing your sales email, prospects open fewer than 24% of them. That's not even one out of four. Let's look at some factors that can improve that ratio.

Here are five approaches you might use to improve your email response rate.

Five Approaches to Improve Your Email Response

What, exactly, does it take to build a successful business?

And can we make them all start with the same letter?

Sure…here are the Five Ps of building a business.

Five P’s of Successful Entrepreneurship

It is so much easier (and less expensive) to hold onto existing customers then it is to gain new ones. So one of your top business goals should be to keep your customers happy.

Here are five ways you can stand out in their eyes.

Five Ways to Stand Out in the Eyes of Your Customers

One of the key elements in building a successful business is creating a culture that reflects what you stand for and what you feel is important. Your culture is a true reflection of what you, your staff and your clients believe about your organization.

Here are five things to consider in creating your corporate culture.

Five Thoughts on Creating Your Corporate Culture

Since you only have one life to live, you should stop from time to time to analyze that you’re on the right path in growing your business, and that your business synchs up with your life. You may find that you need to tweak your business path or change it dramatically, or you might be right on target. 

Here are five questions to ask yourself to be sure you’re on the path to fulfillment in business and in life. 

Five Questions to Verify You’re on the Right Business Path 

Here are five great questions that I bet you’re not asking on your sales calls.

Five Great Questions to Ask on a Sales Call

If you’re one of the millions of women who use the terms “sales” and “marketing” interchangeably, I’m here to tell you that they are absolutely different things.

I think that sometimes we use the word “marketing” because it threatens us less than the word “sales.” But that doesn’t mean we’re using the correct term. Here are five differences between the two.

Five Differences Between Marketing and Sales