Randy is a one man show. He started his architectural practice about 2 years ago after being laid off when his former employer went under. He’s managed to stay quite busy with a few clients that followed him, but never took the time to develop a real plan of what he wanted his business to… Continue reading Want Business Success? Please Step Out Of (Your own) Way
Category: Business Sanity
Business Sanity Blog Re-Design Complete!
I am pleased to announce that after some months of work and effort, my new site design is done and live! Whew – I can now start posting regularly to my blog again, hope to speak with you all very soon! Please let me know what you think- Susan Martin, Business Coaching
Only one week left to enter! Win a FREE Business Sanity Strategy Session
Thanks to the 67 and counting entries I’ve received so far! There’s only one week left to send me your entry to win a FREE Business Sanity Strategy Session. Here are the details: Here’s What You’ll Win: A one hour, one on one Business Sanity Strategy Session with me, (business coach and consultant Susan Martin).… Continue reading Only one week left to enter! Win a FREE Business Sanity Strategy Session
Top Business Sanity Blog Posts of 2008
I was looking at my stats earlier today, and came up with a list of the most popular posts from my blog last year. Here’s the list with links to the posts in case you’d like to take a look. They’re on my old blog, so may not be active for more than a month… Continue reading Top Business Sanity Blog Posts of 2008
Blog Continuation
This blog is now continued at: http://business-sanity.com/blog/see you there!
Running your business doesn’t have to be a struggle…
On the surface, Daniel was a successful attorney. He had a wonderful family, nice car, lived in a beautiful house in a great neighborhood, he was very bright and outgoing. But inside, Daniel was worn out and stressed. Torn between his law practice and his family responsibilities, he worked ridiculously long hours, rarely took a vacation, and went through 3 different assistants in… Continue reading Running your business doesn’t have to be a struggle…
Staying on track
Roberta is a landscape designer and owner of a small landscaping firm. She has a nice roster of private clients and also sub-contracts for two local architects who keep her quite busy. For the past two years, she’s employed two full time and one part time designer and a landscaping crew to do the actual… Continue reading Staying on track
Cash flow, profitability and bookkeeping
Larry runs a marketing company in a suburb of Chicago. He’s had a lot of success over the past year, but you’d never know it from what was happening with his bank account. It seemed that whenever he sat down to write payroll checks or pay vendors he always came up short and often couldn’t… Continue reading Cash flow, profitability and bookkeeping
Coaching your boss
As you may know I’m a big fan of Michael Hyatt, Pres. and CEO of Nelson Publishing and his blog "From Where I Sit". His recent post entitled: "How To Coach Your Boss" really hits the nail on the head concerning relationships between employees and bosses. It’s not always or only the employee who needs… Continue reading Coaching your boss
The power of negative word of mouth
Thanks to Patrick J. Lamb for his post "Negative Word Of Mouth Is An Absolute Killer" which points us to an important customer service story on NPR this week. Patrick writes: "Great story on Monday’s All Things Considered on NPR about the ramifications of poor customer service. The key is that customers who have a… Continue reading The power of negative word of mouth