If you’re going to start a business, you want to do everything to set it up for success and profitability.

Here are five steps to get you from where you are to a thriving enterprise.

Five Keys to Launching a Great Business

The days of “If you build it they will come.” are long over. Your prospect has so many options that even getting their attention, much less their sale, can be like climbing a mountain. So your marketing offer has to hit home with them.

Here are five keys to a solid marketing offer.

Five Keys to a Great Marketing Offer

Negative stress can be a killer, both figuratively and literally. Most people think they have to just put up with it…that they don’t have a choice. Wrong!

Here are five ways to proactively eliminate stress.

Five Ways to Knock Out Stress

Given a choice, people will generally want to spend time with and do business with people who make them feel good, are fun to be around, and are just plain interesting—in short, those who stand out from the crowd. This comes very naturally to some, but others may have to think a little more to make it happen.  

Here are five ways you can stand out from the crowd to benefit both yourself and your business.

Five Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd

This is a good time to think about raising your prices. But rather than doing so arbitrarily, consider the value of results-based pricing rather than hourly pricing.   

Here’s a five-step process to execute that approach.

Five-Step Process to Increase Prices

This time of the year, it is common for proposals to get caught up in limbo. People are on vacation. Others are filling in. It seems like no one has the time or inclination to move your proposal forward. So, what can you do?

Determine the top three proposals you’ve got out and figure out one thing you can do to move each one closer to closing. Then do that!

Here are five ways to move them closer to closing.

Five Ways to Move a Proposal to a Close

What does the word “likeable” mean to you? In my mind, it doesn’t mean that you’re a patsy, but that your personality enables you to move forward in life, having racked up enough “points” with others that you can call them in when you need them.

No matter how likeable you may think you are, here are five ways to become even moreso.

Five Ways to Become More Likeable

If you can’t keep your best employees happy, you’re not going to keep them. Although your best employees are the ones you can least afford to lose, they are the ones who have the most options and—if they’re unhappy—are the ones who are most likely looking RIGHT NOW.

Here are five ways to push them out the door.

Five Ways to Chase Away Good Employees

The best way to kill a day is to engage in time-wasting bad habits. They eat up an hour here, an hour there, and before long your day is gone.

Here are five ways to gain two hours each day by eliminating bad habits..

Five Ways to Gain Two Hours Each Day

Whether it’s with your staff, a co-worker, a customer or your spouse, to gain cooperation, you must first connect with them.

Here are five ways to create those important connections.

Five Ways to Better Relate to Others