Gold Coast Business Coaching

  Nothing stings quite as much as losing a valuable staff member, especially if they head over to your competitor.   It is like a break up.   For a lot of us (especially female business owners) we go through the five stages of business loss grief.  1. Denial  “Oh no they haven’t really left me.  I b

So you have tried sending newsletters to your database because everyone else is doing it… but you can’t figure out why no one ever reads them?  It is probably because they suck.  There are a few mistakes businesses make that will have your data base “opting out” as fast as you can say…well… my newsl

Just thinking about debt collection makes me feel anxious.  I HATE it.  Asking people for money is just not something I want to spend my time doing.  It played a huge part in my decision to join Small Fish Business Coaching, where someone else does it for me!  Just so we are clear your debtors [...]

Are you in a bad relationship where you can’t meet the other person’s needs?  Is the relationship leaving you wondering why you deal with them at all?  Have you worked out if that one customer is actually costing you money as opposed to making you money?  Worse still, has the relationship become abu

Here is the last part of the Vintage Ads I managed to dig out with the help of CJ from GC Web.        Cocaine Toothache drops!   Sure why not?  I could be wrong but they look like kiddies in that ad?  Cocaine for kiddies, even better idea! If cooking is what “wives [...]

As promised here are some more fantastic vintage ads to give you a laugh on Monday!  Let’s face it, everyone needs a little laugh on Mondays….. So this of course is the preferred way to keep trim.   I love that the selling point is that the cigarette will protect your throat from irritation!   [...]

Thanks to my BNI buddy CJ from GC Web I have come up with a heap of old advertisements that you will love (if you’re anything like me and think they are funny and not offensive).  I was first inspired to go on the hunt after CJ used one of the images in a presentation [...]

I have just been sent a blog by Seth Godin from one of my clients Natalie Alaimo from Natalie Alaimo International. Seth’s blog “No, you can’t pick my brain. It costs too much” is fantastic!  Click here for Seth’s Blog! One of our challenges for Natalie was to stop her from giving all of her [...]

I have been thinking about the need to get a will sorted for some time now.  My thinking has been that yes I do need a will, but no I don’t want to spend the cash!  I was also thinking that splitting up my stash of cash would almost be funny!  Five bucks for mum, [...]