Mixing work with family life has its pluses and its setbacks. It is important that you can identify both and put measures in place to ease the impact working from home may have on the rest of the hous

Here is a short segment from the Whiteboard Become a Coach series with advice from best selling author and founder of MAUS Peter Hickey. What is the difference between a profitable client and a regula

Here is a short segment from the Whiteboard Become a Coach series with advice from best selling author and founder of MAUS Peter Hickey. What is the difference between a profitable client and a regula

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, the village would look something like the following:

There would

The way you are perceived by the public can be manipulated by more than a carefully-placed advertisement or perfectly-timed press release.

The way your product looks is part of merchandising. And the

Before you start the benchmarking process you must have a very good idea of the essential function of your business. In other words, you must determine what you do, why you do it and who you do it for

Once you have analysed your own business it is time to compare it against others in your industry.

Your aim is to identify how your competitors manage to do so well. You need to find out if they have

Having analysed your business and compared it against others, you are now ready to look at strategies for improvement.

Before you put in place any changes to your business it is important to make sur

More and more businesspeople are discovering the power of trade shows. Trade shows may not be useful for every entrepreneurial venture, but they can certainly increase orders for businesses serving a

The opportunities for networking are ideal at the cocktail hour of workshops, seminars and other organized business functions. And it stands to reason that we should display our best etiquette while t