by Buck Samrai | Jul 23, 2013 | Business Start-up, Business Success, Entrepreneurs, Outsourced Admin, Outsourcing, Phone Answering, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Marketing is a crucial part of establishing and growing any business. Regardless of what age, stage or industry your business is in, it’s vital to define who your ideal customer is and figure out how to reach them. No matter how great your product or service,...
by Michelle | Jul 2, 2013 | Business Owners, Business Start-up, Business Success, Customer Experience, Do what you're great at, Entrepreneurs, Great Service, Outsourced Admin, Women Business Owners
In the 14 years since I started SOI, I’ve had the very great privilege of getting to know a great many business owners and watch them develop and grow their businesses a step at a time. We’ve seen so many of those businesses flourish and grow. Generally, when we’ve...
by Michelle | May 13, 2013 | Business Start-up, Entrepreneurs, Women Business Owners
If you’re a business owner who’s either in or been through the start-up phase, you’ll know that whilst there are benefits of working from home, there are also downsides to working from home too. After the euphoria of not having to commute, wake up early, or even get...
by Michelle | Apr 23, 2013 | Business Start-up, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Whether you’re in that first initial push to get a business up and running or you’re several years into business, no doubt you’ll come across a period when you want to get more from your business. That might be gaining more clients, bigger customer spends, broadening...
by Michelle | Apr 9, 2013 | Building Leverage, Business Start-up, Customer Experience, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
5 Tips for Finding & Catching Them Now Easter is over and all those ‘pesky’ holidays early in the year are now over, business life can resume normal programming. And for most of us that means getting on with new business development. When you first start out...
by Michelle | Feb 26, 2013 | Business Start-up, Small Business Planning, Women Business Owners
Now that we’re well past the holidays , January thinking and planning time – business life is returning to normal. But what do you do if you’re still quiet? In the early stages of building your business, there are a million things to do that keep you busy and...
