Search Results

5 Sure-Fire Strategies to Getting More Done in Less Time (Part 2)

By Melanie Benson Strick | August 19th, 2010

Ready for three more “Get More Done” strategies? If you missed part one, read part 1 here.
3. Delegate Ruthlessly
A lot of time is wasted when a business owner is doing a task that someone could do better, faster or cheaper than themselves. Now granted, when the cash flow is tight, sometimes it’s really tempting to [...]

Is Overwhelm Robbing You of Your Love?

By Melanie Benson Strick | February 12th, 2010

Seriously…how much time do you spend doing what you love?
I read a statistic somewhere recently that over 70% of people spend most of their day doing what they hate.
Wow. That’s just sad.
As entrepreneurs, I find that it’s easy to get caught up in doing what we HAVE to do vs. what we love to do. [...]

Diversify or Focus: The Sand Pail Approach to Stable Income

By Melanie Benson Strick | January 14th, 2010

Do you have all your revenue eggs in one basket? It’s the classic situation many entrepreneurs find themselves in – and it’s a precarious place to operate your business from.
If you have one big client, one main offering or one key industry that provides you most of your revenue, then you have left yourself [...]

Picking a Success Mentor to Accelerate your Results

By Melanie Benson Strick | December 15th, 2009

Jason read an article somewhere about how hiring a mentor who had demonstrated significant success could help short-cut his path and eliminate the frustration of doing the wrong things so he began the process of searching for a success coach.

3 Proven Ways to Completely Mess Up Your Outsourcing

By Melanie Benson Strick | November 16th, 2009

Learn from 3 outsourcing experts, Tina Forsyth, Daven Michaels and Pam Ivey share their own outsourcing strategy and what entrepreneurs do that messes up their outsourcing and delegation.

If You Build it, Will They Come? Two Different Team Building Tactics

By Melanie Benson Strick | September 22nd, 2009

Should you build your team now for the business you want later, or grow the business first and then add the team later?
There are two schools of thought on how to get your team started.  Both have pros and cons. You have to decide what is most important to you based on your values and [...]

Quick to Hire, Slow to Fire

By Melanie Benson Strick | September 15th, 2009

Hiring the right people for the job to grow your team is a key part of growing your business. Learning effective delegation skills are crucial for growth! Virtual team management doesn’t have to be a nightmare, Melanie Benson Strick explains how to delegate successfully.

Time to Vote: Who Should win the Grand prize?

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 29th, 2009

Recently we invited people to submit their “worst delegation  nightmare” to us so we could help them turn their delegation breakdowns by discovering how to delegate without undue stress and loss of opportunities or money. There were so many great submissions …we really do want to help everyone…but there’s just one top prize of attending [...]

Can Messy Delegation Actually Pay Off?

By Melanie Benson Strick | July 16th, 2009

Have you ever tried your best to get things off your plate…only to realize you had a made a HUGE mess? Or worse yet, the person you relied on had made a massive mistake and all your best efforts to hand things off went down the proverbial toilet?
Ah…the joys of team building. These kinds of [...]

Getting Beyond The “Gulp Factor” When Growing Your Business

By Shawn Driscoll, Guest Author | March 18th, 2008

Recently, my mastermind partner Maria called me for support. Several exciting business opportunities had come up and she needed a plan of action. As we looked at the opportunities – a large corporate contract, a web radio show, and a joint venture – it was clear Maria needed help to juggle all these priorities. I [...]