David Wildash

Category: Business

  • Planning Next Year – Use the Power of Opposites

    Sometimes it ‘s easier to work out what you don’t want than what you do want. If you’re having trouble setting goals and planning for next year you could try using the power of opposites. Instead of getting stuck working out how to do better cast your mind back over this year and ask yourself…

  • It’s Time to Review. Don’t underestimate your progress

    As we move into the final months of the year it is traditionally the time to review the past 12 months and look ahead to our goals for next year. Sometimes the review process can be a source of disappointment and melancholy, especially if it’s been a tough year. So in this post I want…

  • 5 Components for Next Year’s Goals

    It’s about now that many people start thinking about next year. If you run a business you should be thinking ahead all year round, but with an impending new year it seems the right time to consider your long term goals. Some goals are better than others and the best have some things in common.…

  • 50 Days to …?

    As this post is published there are 50 days left of 2014. If you subtract the seven weekends till the New Year and take away the holiday dates for Christmas, you could have about 30 working days left. So how does that make you feel? Assured that you can comfortably reach your targets by the…

  • Mastermind Meetings – The Advantages

    It always helps to get a fresh pair of eyes on your plans, business and products. A different perspective can stop you making mistakes, under or over valuing your offer, or give you new options to consider. This weekend I had the pleasure of joining a group of people with varying degrees of internet marketing…

  • Are you Focusing on Vanity, Sanity or are you Ignoring Reality?

    There’s a saying in business that revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.  Actually there are a number of variations with volume or turnover also being vanity and cash flow or margin being sanity. The basic idea is that it’s not how much you sell that really matters, it’s how much money you make. It’s no…

  • Is Your Business Prepared for Disaster?

    I once heard crisis management teams described as a group of people you invite into your business so they can scare the heck out of you. The fact is that even if your business is virtual it is still based in the physical world and susceptible to all sorts of disasters. The reason crisis management…

  • Have a Clear Customer Journey

    It’s the middle of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere and the roads, rails and airways are probably at their busiest in terms of holiday traffic. Think about the last time you planned a holiday trip. Then think about the last time you thought about how your customers will move through your…

  • What Can An Internet Marketer Do Without The Internet?

    This week we are taking delivery of a new BT Hub. Hopefully this will mean a faster internet connection and an increase in productivity. However it does mean for a short period this week we will be unable to access the internet. This rarely happens and is usually because either 1) we suffer a power…

  • More World Cup Lessons

    Write some posts related to the World Cup, I thought. That’ll be topical here in England. Yeah, hoped it would last longer than two weeks though. So, here’s the last World Cup related post from me for a while! In last week’s post I looked at three ways the World Cup can teach us how…