It may seem tempting to coast through life, but the only way you can coast is downhill. (Think about that for a minute.) To gain real success in business and in life, you’ve got to do things that are challenging.

Here are five challenging things that successful people make a habit of doing.

5 Difficult Things That Successful People Do

There is huge value in being able to get inside your customer’s head. And the best way to do that is by asking questions. But standard, run-of-the-mill stuff, doesn’t give you much insight.

Try these quirky questions instead.

5 Quirky Questions to Ask About Your Customers

It’s great to start a new business because you’re fired up about a product or service that you really want to offer. But does the idea make sense from a business perspective?

Here are 5 questions to ask before you get going.

5 Questions to Ask Before You Start a Business

Many women start a sales call as though it were just another conversation. Sure it IS a conversation, but so much more.

If you build your sales call around the five elements below, you’ll see a real jump in your new business.

5 Elements of a Winning Sales Call

Do sales objections stop you in your tracks? Here is a quick five-step process to get around them.

5 Steps to Overcoming Sales Objections

You can gain a lot of knowledge about your competition by combing through their websites, but here are five offline approaches that you don’t want to overlook.

5 Ways to Research Your Competition Offline

Relationships are the key to business success, but you can only spend so much time meeting with prospects, so you’ve got to invest this time wisely.

Here is a 5-step process to help you become visible and involved with your top prospects.

5 Ways to Woo Your Top Prospects

Most of us want to grow our businesses and we think the most effective way to do this is to sell more of the same. But this is often the wrong approach…or at the least it’s very limiting. So you need to consider other ways to grow your revenue.

Here are five approaches that we’ve successfully implemented for our clients.

5 Ways to Grow Your Revenue

If your business deals with inventory, this is a good time of the year to consider ways to contain those costs. Inventory that is not moving is dead weight and your goal should be to convert it to cash as quickly as possible, even if you have to mark it down dramatically to do so.

Here are five things to consider in dealing with inventory.

5 Ways to Minimize Inventory Costs

Are you working really hard to grow sales, but it just isn’t happening? Maybe your communication is actually preventing you from making those sales.

Here are five communication ideas that could jump start your sales.

5 Communication Tips to Grow Sales