by Diana Lidstone | Jan 24, 2023 | Blog Post, money
When working with business owners, I’ve noticed that too many of you are leaving anywhere from $30K to $100K on the table by not paying attention to your cash flow and profit. Could you be leaving money on the table by: Working with the wrong clients? Undercharging?...
by Diana Lidstone | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog Post, money, planning
No one wants to run a business that can’t support the entrepreneur running it! That’s why it’s so important to have a game plan or playbook for how you are going to design your predictably profitable business. But statistics show us that MOST entrepreneurs do not have...
by Diana Lidstone | Sep 7, 2020 | Blog Post, marketing, money, productivity
We just celebrated Labour Day. Apparently the Canadian origins date back to 1872 when a parade was staged to support the Toronto Typographical Union whose employees were striking in support of a 58-hour week! I chuckled as I read it thinking about all the small...
by Diana Lidstone | May 4, 2020 | Blog Post, mindset, money
About a month ago I was working with a private client (Jill) who owns a small business with several employees. She was STUCK. Every time she seemed to get back on track, something else got in her way. She just couldn’t seem to get ahead of her pile of work or make...
by Diana Lidstone | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog Post, money, sales conversations
There is one thing I know for sure ….. you want to avoid like the PLAGUE is a building business on trial and error (or as I like to call it – winging it!!!) I can promise that if you try to grow a business by throwing stuff at the wall or by trying this tactic then...
by Diana Lidstone | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog Post, money, sales conversations
WOW – think about that…. How different would your business be? How would you feel if you LOVED having sales conversations? Would you feel….. happy? Successful? Confident? Satisfied? What word would you use to describe how you felt? ____________ I used to feel...