Tag: small business owners

No matter who you are, at times, as a small business owner, you will get stressed.

It's how you deal with it that counts.

Which has me thinking. I am what I affectionately call a "stress pet". Someone, who stresses a lot. If not daily, bi-daily. I find things to stress about that sometimes deserve my attention, and then others that certainly don't.

Managing stress has always been an issue and I have over time tried everything. But just like any diet, or new health regime, you need to keep with it long after the actual decision to do it in the first place and constantly remind yourself that it is something that requires ongoing work, not just a quick fix.

When it comes to marketing, how long is a piece of string? How long is the right amount of time for a small business owner to spend on marketing? It's a tough question for most small business owners who are faced with running a business, motivating staff, quality control, hiring people, and accounts. But there are some sure ways that you can maximise the time you spend on marketing in your business, and still have time left over to do all the other things that make your business run smoothly and achieve your business goals

We are 6 weeks into a new financial year. The market took a big nose dive last week causing many sleepless nights for people around the globe and housing prices are on the decline after a heated market that seemed to go for far too long effecting the sentiment of all consumers.

The Facebook's, Google's and Twitter's of the world, are rightly so, oblivious to any changes, because people are still flocking to their profitable billion dollar platforms that see the founders and investors laughing all the way to the bank. It's as if they won the lotto and the rest of us just keep putting our tickets in each week, in hope.

I have a problem. Actually, I have many but this is just one of them that I need to address really fast.