For most of us, the Easter Break has been a welcome time to rest and spend time with family and friends. It’s a symbolic time of renewal and hope, and those of us in the Northern Hemisphere enjoying the longer days can also take comfort from the sight of trees gradually turning green with new [...]

The cold season is already upon us and some of us are nursing colds and illness. The impact on a business’ productivity can be dramatic, especially for sole traders and micro-businesses. This article by Anthony Hill of the The Institute of Leadership and Management looks at one simple way business managers can support well-being in [...]

Hi, one of my fellow Twitter friends, Michael O’Grady @salespsychology has a short video post which I thought was worth sharing with you. I think that  Keeping your nerve during slower months… is an important mind-set for the SME business owner and salesperson. Staying professional and keeping the momentum going is the key to keeping income [...]

  Last month, I wrote about how creating momentum began by taking actions, however small, that led you towards your final destination. http://olsonsalesandmarketingservices.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/creating-momentum-%e2%80%93-first-think-then-act/ A useful follow up to this is how focusing on perfection can acually lead to paralysis and a reason why you fail to take action at all. At what point do you decide [...]

  Today is the start of a new era for me with regards to blogging! After research and soul-searching, I made the decision to move from my wordpress.com site, to this wordpress.org site you see today. Despite the reassuring, “takes only five minutes!” quick and simple rhetoric, it was a much longer and more convoluted [...]

  For some time now, I’ve followed on Facebook the journeys of two young children from Oregon, USA. Ethan Jostad and Faith Fulmer were diagnosed with particularly virulent forms of childhood cancer.  Through posts, updates, videos and live feeds, 9 year old Ethan and 8 year old Faith (mostly through their parents) have shared their ups and downs with over [...]

For Londoners, and for people in cities across the UK, it has been a turbulent and distressing week. Watching pictures of burning buildings and homes, of people being robbed in the open street, looting and violence, it has been hard to understand the thinking and emotions of the people involved. We have been seeing the [...]

Making sure social media doesn’t become anti-social… We’ve all been there, “I’ll just take a quick look…” and minutes, and even hours, later, you’re still checking your social media accounts at the expense of the work that’s piling up around you. That guilty feeling of knowing that a much of a day has been spent on [...]

  I have been suffering from email and wireless connection issues all week and I seem to have lost emails and not all my emails are getting through. If you have sent me something/are awaiting a repsonse, please could re-send or email to let me know? Many thanks! Sumi

As you know from reading my blogs, newsletter and listening to my audio work, I am dedicated to sharing knowledge and value with fellow business people so that they can in turn, give the best they can to their own community. I am even more committed to helping people actually convert this knowledge into actions [...]