The world worships busyness.
We admire those who have to always be somewhere, who have work days with endless appointments, who seem to be rushing around constantly working on projects.
They seem more productive.
But is it so?
I think we are deluding ourselves.
The modern world wasn’t created by constant movement, it was created by creative thinking followed by [...]

We’ve just finished running a 2 day seminar for almost 500 entrepreneurs.
We taught a lot, but we also learnt a lot.
Here’s what I learnt:
1. Entrepreneurs are not just driven by money.
Most of the people we spoke to wanted to create something extraordinary, not just make a profit. Sure money was of interest, but for many [...]

Here’s a great way to quickly build up your business success.
Offer free trials of your products.
They’re a simple but amazingly effective way to get people interested in buying from you. This really hit home for me recently when I was out shopping in a mall.
I walked past a Teavana store – the huge chain of [...]

By now you are back from holidays and getting stuck into the new year.
You are now faced with a turning point.
You can run your year like last year – and probably get similar results.
Or you can push yourself to ask daring questions, which can often lead to radically better results.
Truly, it’s the questions we ask [...]

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Most entrepreneurs think they are dedicated to building their business.
But I question that.
I think the majority of entrepreneurs are just dabbling. Sure they’d like to have a successful business, but they don’t really crave it.
The problem is that business today is really, really tough.
Unless you absolutely, madly desire to create an awesome business it probably [...]

A friend of mine pointed out an interesting move by Subway lately.
They’ve quietly been setting up stores inside Walmarts.
Over 1400 of them in fact.
It got me thinking.
Surely one of the best opportunities to increase your revenues is to sell your products in unusual places, just like Subway are doing.
While you’re competitors slog it out in [...]

We all want more customers.
It makes us feel good to see more people buying from us.
But believe it or not, getting more new customers is not the best way to grow your business.
There’s another way to make money that’s far easier and more efficient.
Yet hardly any businesses pay enough attention to it. In fact many [...]

One of the most underestimated parts of becoming a successful entrepreneur is increasing your level of daring.
You can read a thousand books on business and not see daring even mentioned, but it is a critical character trait to have if you want to build an extraordinary business.
You can be efficient. You can be great at [...]

CHECKLIST FOR FAST COMPANY GROWTH.
I do a lot of consulting for entrepreneurs building their companies.
No matter what the industry, I find the same things lacking in companies struggling to grow.
So this week, I thought it would be helpful if I put these common challenges into an easy to review checklist.
So take a few minutes to [...]