Successful business development is all about achieving measurable progress in reasonable time. Here are 7 productivity tips, to help you get the very most from your working day: Break your yearly business goals down into monthly and weekly goals. This makes it easier to ensure you are on track. When you have months and months… Continue Reading
Marketing tips and ideas to help you grow your business, by Jim Connolly
Category Archives: Personal development
Just Launched: Creative Thinking Hub!
I have some great news to share with you today. Do you want to become a more creative thinker? Would you like to improve your problem solving skills? Are you keen to increase your creative output? If you just answered yes to any or all of those questions, you will love Creative Thinking Hub. Your… Continue Reading
6 Common errors that crush small businesses
After 17 years spent helping thousands of small businesses, here are 6 of the most common errors I’ve seen. Negative association. There is an undeniable link between how successful you will be, and the people you habitually associate with. Mix with pessimists and those lacking direction and one day, everything they have will be yours!… Continue Reading
Dream again – Believe again!
My mentor, the late great Jim Rohn used to say: Just as you once dreamed, you can dream again. Just as you once believed, you can believe again. No matter where we are right now, we still have the ability to change it all. Changing course It’s easy to look at where we are right… Continue Reading
7 Things to help you build a super successful business!
Almost exactly 17 years ago, I set up my marketing business. In the months leading up to the launch, I took the 10 most successful businesspeople I knew out to lunch, to ask their advice. The following 7 pieces of advice were the most useful to me, so I wanted to share them with you.… Continue Reading
Lean forward and show us what you know!
In technology reporting, they refer to devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops and eReaders as being either lean forward devices or lean backward devices. In short, lean backward devices are those we consume information on (like a Kindle, Nook or TV) and lean forward devices are those we primarily create on, like a laptop… Continue Reading
If you have an idea, give it a deadline, get moving & watch it fly!
So… It’s not the size of your marketing budget. It’s not the size of your social network. Its not the permission you have earned from your marketplace. It’s not the genius of your business idea. It’s not even the years of experience you have gathered, the contacts you have made or the knowledge you have… Continue Reading
Be careful what you wish for!
I shared a few marketing ideas on Google+ last week, with one of the people who connects with me there. She thanked me for the help, then said; “I wish marketing was easier, Jim.” I found that reply really interesting. We need to be careful what we wish for If marketing was easier, all your… Continue Reading