5 Things You Need to Do In Your Small Business Right Now

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on September 29, 2009 in: Coaching

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve been hearing more and more about the potential for imminent economic recovery. It seems that economists and financial wizards are predicting that we’ll be out a recession soon (although “soon” is loosely defined). While that doesn’t mean that our businesses will be operating at the fever pitch we [...]

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The X factor

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on May 19, 2009 in: Coaching

Remember in high school math class when the teacher would write an equation on the board and then tell us to “solve for X”? To solve for X students would have to work out the entire equation with X to the side and then get to the point where it became obvious.
Example: 2X+6 = 30
(30 [...]

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Business “best practice” in today’s economy

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on February 5, 2009 in: Coaching

We’re living in turbulent economic times. Economists are now predicting that most of 2009 will continue this way with a market resurrection in the end of 2009 and through 2010. Larger businesses may have the assets and borrowing power to survive. But smaller businesses do not and many of them are wondering if they’ll survive [...]

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The conundrum of committedness – part 2

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on January 20, 2009 in: Coaching, Just Blogging

In the last blog, I talked about the first part of the conundrum of committedness: How the consultant needs to stay busy enough with commitments to earn and income but also have enough time to market in order to replenish the pipeline.
I said that the first part of the conundrum of committedness is: The more [...]

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