By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/30/2008
This business coaching blog is dedicated to helping you attract new customers with practical and low-cost marketing strategies. The more fishing lines your company puts in the water, the better chance of catching customers. These are easy-to-implement strategies (beyond and supplemental to your internet marketing efforts) to help drive customers and revenues into your business. While not all of them wi ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/27/2008
Sadly, after several years in business, we entrepreneurs tend to lose the emotional and motivational connection to our initial dreams and visions. We get so busy working "in" the business and dealing with the "daily grind" that we lose sight of the big picture and our compelling vision. Our original dreams of business ownership start to fade and sour as the ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/23/2008
As Mark Twain stated, "It's not what you don't know that holds you back, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." As your virtual business coach, please read that again. Surprisingly, it's your certitude around some of your fast-held business beliefs that could be holding you back. After all, when was the last time you questioned and challenged such beliefs and ass ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/20/2008
No doubt about it, we are going through some crazy economic and political times right now. As a North American system of business coaches, we work hard to help keep our business owner clients calm, cool, collected, and confident. After all, clients worrying about things beyond their control does no good whatsoever. In fact, needless worry does real harm by diverting ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/16/2008
Too many folks in the media are only asking negative and disempowering "what if" questions. During these economic crazy times, more than ever, business owners need to ask better questions. To a very large extent, you regulate your mindset and confidence based on the questions you ask yourself. Simply put, the quality of your life and business very often comes down to th ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/13/2008
Our last business coaching blog focused on the need to adopt a marketing mindset and to put more marketing strategies and programs in play in your marketplace ... similar to more fishing lines in the water to catch more
fish. Quite simply, you increase your customer-catching capacity with more marketing programs activated. However, don't mistakenly assume that ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/9/2008
Business owner, please stop fixating on what the stock market is doing, what politicians are saying, or what reporters are guessing will happen. Instead, this business coach recommends that you go fishing. Am I nuts? While my 10-year old boy and I love to fish together, I'm not suggesting you go catch fish ... unless you desperately need a mental break. What I'm suggesting is that you fish for and catch mor ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/6/2008
No doubt about it, we are in some crazy times and will have to endure some kind of transition period. How crazy and for how long? Who really knows? What I do know is that as a small business owner, you are being bombarded with repetitive "doom and gloom" stories and opinions all day long from newspapers, magazines, cable news, nightly news, radio, the internet, poli ...
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By Daniel M. Murphy on
10/2/2008
Business owners, for your sake and that of your company's, please stop bouncing around from one idea to another, one project to another, one fire-drill to another. You are driving yourself and your employees crazy. Also, while you're at it, stop chasing the business practice or management strategy "flavor of the week or month."
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