We all waste time in one way or another and just putting your brain in neutral every now and then is not a terrible thing. But if you spend too much time in non-productive activities you may want to think about recapturing some of that time. Maybe just one hour of it.
If you want to add an hour to your day, here are five activities to consider.
Five Ways to Add an Hour to Your Day
Members of The Woman’s Advantage® Forum come from all backgrounds, but have a single goal: Growing their small businesses.
Here are the five most typical backgrounds of successful Woman’s Advantage® members.
Five Types of Women Who Benefit from The Woman’s Advantage® Forum
Most small businesses fail in less than five years. So if your business is five, ten or even 20 years old, you should celebrate. But what’s the best way to do this? Here are five suggestions for your 5th Anniversary, which you can modify if you are celebrating one, ten, fifteen, or even twenty (and beyond) years in business.
Five Ways to Celebrate a Business Anniversary
It is tough for you, as a small business, to compete with the huge budgets that major corporations allocate for employee training. But think of your small size as a positive rather than a negative and come up with creative, low-cost ways to grow your employees. Here are a few ideas to consider.
Five Low-Cost Ways to Grow Your Employees
We all know that money is important to employees but what actually motives them to perform at optimum level is personal recognition. In fact, many surveys point out that the key motivating factor for employees is appreciation and recognition.
Here are five key ways to appreciate and recognize your employees.
Five Unusual Ways to Recognize Employees
When you speak, you want your message to come through with confidence and conviction. To achieve this, it’s important to use words that convey power rather than those that are weak and tentative. One way to do that is to avoid the following words or phrases.
Five Words or Phrases that Weaken Your Power
What is the best way to spend the valuable time you have with a long-term customer? How about asking questions that will help you retain their business, better serve them, and attract prospects that could also become long-term customers?
The next time you find yourself with a long-term customer, ask these five questions.
Five Great Questions to Ask Your Long-Term Customers
One key way to improve your profitability is by lowering your cost of sales. You do this is by analyzing and improving every element of your sales process. While it sounds like a lot of work, imagine what it would feel like to end the year with an additional 5 or 10% increase in your profitability.
Here’s what the five-step process improve profits by lowering sales costs looks like.
Five Steps to Lower Your Sales Cost
Do you have a great idea for a new offering to add to your product/service line? No matter how excited you may be, don’t just jump in. Instead, analyze your idea by considering the following it from all angles.
Here are five things to consider.
Five Ways to Analyze a New Offering
Five Insights into Reading Body Language
1. Fidgeting, excessive blinking, or chewing/licking lips can signal that the individual you’re speaking with is nervous.
2. Rocking back and forth can indicate that someone is impatient or anxious to be finished.
