Posts Tagged ‘Business Strategy’

Lessons learned from the recession of 2009

This past week I attended ActionCOACH’s North American Conference.  This is where approximately 300 ActionCOACH coaches from the United States, Canada, & Mexico come together to learn best practices, celebrate our wins and to discuss our challenges and losses.
The founder of ActionCOACH worldwide, Brad Sugars shared with us the lessons he learned from businesses working [...]

10 Steps to a Referral Based Business

When I speak to business owners today the most common challenge I hear is generating more business. Then they continue with I don’t have any money to pay for advertising. They are right, lead generation can be costly if not done correctly.
By creating a referral based business you can lower you customer acquisition [...]

Do you have a referral based business?

When I ask business owners where most of their customers come from, they say “word of mouth”. Then when I did deeper and ask what specific strategies they use to create their referral based business, they tell me they don’t have any specific strategies for referrals. So how would you create a referral based business?
Let’s [...]