Rachna Jain's Blog, page 18
February 9, 2016
How To Set Your Business Sales Goals
I was speaking with one of my long-time clients today, and we came upon the issue of setting goals around sales and business growth. Surprisingly, this kicked off a deep and intensive conversation around whether sales goals were meaningful or relevant.
It turns out that my client has set sales goals in the past, but didn’t come anywhere close to meeting them.
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February 2, 2016
How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Business
bot·tle·neck
ˈbädlˌnek/
noun
noun: bottleneck; plural noun: bottlenecks
1.
the neck or mouth of a bottle.
2.
a point of congestion or blockage, in particular.
What does it take to grow your business?
That depends. At first, if you’re just starting out, it takes a testable idea (I didn’t say GOOD idea, just a testable idea), and some people to try that idea out upon.
...January 26, 2016
How Your Personal Growth Grows Your Business
One of the sayings my clients hear from me often is this: “Your business is the best crucible for your personal growth. Whatever you struggle with in your personal life is likely to be the same thing you struggle with in your business.”
As a psychologist, I’m completely convinced of the inextricable link between who we are as people, and how we show up in business.
...January 19, 2016
Staying Motivated through the Ecommerce Launch Cycle
As entrepreneurs, most of us are very good at starting new things. We generate ideas, develop new businesses, and keep coming up with what’s new and fresh and of the moment. There is nothing quite like the intoxication of a new business idea that you feel really excited about. At first, you have a lot of energy for your new idea.
...January 12, 2016
The Courage to Risk
One of the themes that’s been showing up in my coaching work with clients has been the idea of risk-taking and courage. Being an entrepreneur is, inherently, a courageous choice. You trade some kinds of “certainty” for situations which are less certain. On the other hand, though, we know that even the largest corporations are going through downsizing and acquisitions, so there are no guarantees in the corporate world either.
...January 5, 2016
5 Areas To Improve Your Business This Year
It’s a new year! And if you’re like most of us, you’re starting off this new year with a lot of dreams and plans and goals for making this year better than all the others before it.
I think that’s great, because I’m doing the very same things.
So as I was sitting down to write this article today, I was reflecting on my biggest lessons of the past year, and what I’ve learned that I want to carry forward in this new year, specifically in my business.
...January 1, 2016
Happy 2016!
Happy New Year! I hope 2016 is a year filled with health, happiness, peace and success for you and yours!
Tags: happy 2016
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December 29, 2015
5 Business Lessons I’ve Learned This Year
As 2015 comes to an end, and 2016 is just a few days away, I find myself reflecting on my opportunities and experiences over the past year. As I talk with clients and colleagues, most agree that 2015 was a bit of a mixed year- marked by a lot of change.
...December 22, 2015
Finding Your Mentors
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that I’ve really wanted to reduce and simplify. I spent time going through all my recurring subscriptions, and canceled about 40% of them. I’ve also been busy reducing my number of newsletter subscriptions. You might think of this as year-end cleaning. What I’ve noticed already is that my email inbox is a lot quieter, and I’m spending less time deleting things I won’t read anyway.
...December 16, 2015
The Surprising Secret about Socially Responsible Gifting
As we’re moving into the holiday season, you, as a business-owner, may be thinking about giving gifts to your clients and vendors. As a thoughtful and caring person, you might even be considering giving socially responsible gifts.
Socially responsible gifts are ones where you make a donation or contribution in someone’s name, and there is a social cause or organization that also benefits.
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