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This blog deals with issues we encounter during normal mentoring and coaching activities. All the entries are real life experiences from people who have been there and done it with significant experience of the "sharp end"

Latest Blog Posts

  • Cold Calling Using Shoe Leather on Oct 5, 2009

    It occurred to me recently that with the advent of the internet, email and PDA’s, nobody seems to talk to anyone these days and the thought of  cold calling will make the average salesperson go into shock. It would therefore seem a very good o...

  • Letting Go on Oct 5, 2009 in delegating growing a business control freak letting go business problems

    One of the main issues I see with small businesses is the same problem I had myself and that is letting go. This is not an issue with the digestive system but the fact that so many entrepreneurs are also control freaks and just cannot delegate or see...

  • Are you exposed to Foreign Currency? on Sep 7, 2009

    Wipe the smile off your bank's face next time you have to a large currency deal. How? By getting http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/live-charts/ on your PC and call the bank whilst you are looking at the live data. Just see how much you are being c...

  • How to tell if your advertising budget is being wasted on Aug 29, 2009

    As you may have heard, 90% of all advertising is a waste of time so when the Yellow Pages person comes to flog you another very expensive advert, you may want to be armed with data for the previous year. The old line of "If you took half a page inste...

  • Stopping the "Sicky" on Aug 29, 2009

    So you have an employee that always seems to be sick on Mondays? It's almost impossible to prove whether they are sick or not. However, as a concerned employer, you can pay for them to have a full medical, with the emphasis on full. I would suggest o...

  • Effect of Blogs and Twitter on Web Site Hits on Aug 26, 2009 in blog hits SEO blogging twitter mentornet

    I have been experimenting with this blog and posting this automatically to Twitter. What I have found astonishing is the massive ramp up in hits to my web site and subsequent enquiries. In fact, August isn't over yet and I already have doubled my ave...

  • Just experimenting with Video in my blog on Aug 26, 2009

    Just experimenting with Video in my blog...