From the desk of Marissa Carlos
2 February 2009
At Success Uncovered Club, we are finally uncovering our main offering.
After months of planning and collaborating, we are ready to announce our main vision for this website.
We would like to introduce you to Success Uncovered Club, The One-Stop Shop For Start-Up Professional Service Businesses.
In conjunction with Henry Chow, principal of Tax Liaison, a CPA accounting firm, we will be dedicating our efforts towards assisting those in the professional services industry who own a new business, have just started their own business, or are seriously considering starting their own business.
As small business owners ourselves who have experience and expertise to share on starting and running professional services based businesses, we are excited and inspired to work with those professionals who are on their journey to be successful and effective business owners.
Enjoy the journey! It is like a roller-coaster ride full of lessons and challenges but there is nothing more fulfilling than getting your financial rewards from doing what you love and enjoy.
So watch out for more on this soon from Success Uncovered Club!
Best Regards,
Marissa Carlos
Director, Maximum Coaching Company Pty Ltd
Founder, Success Uncovered Club
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Today's success tip comes from Michelle Bowden.
At 28, with a baby and a huge mortgage, Michelle opened her training business, with AMP as her first client. She is an accredited NLP practitioner and master trainer in presentation and influencing skills. She works with CEOs and their teams to help prepare them for presentations at company meetings, conferences and sales pitches.
What advice can you offer other women about balancing family and professional life?
Marry a good man!
On a serious note, I find that life is an ongoing balancing act. There is a constant need to re-adjust my priorities so as to not neglect my business, my husband, my children, my family, my friends and myself. As a business owner I am totally in charge of my time, and time management skills are essential.
I recommend outsourcing everything that you don't want to do - get a housekeeper who can iron, cook and tidy your home for reasonable rates; a dog washer; a lawn mower man; and get your groceries delivered.
Wellbeing - stay healthy, exercise and see health practitioners regularly. I consult a great naturopath, acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and chiropractor regularly to maintain good health and prevent health issues.
Plan and play - it is very important to work out how much business activity your relationship and the family can bear. It will be different for everyone. To some degree, business and work decisions should be made from the perspective of what's right for the family, not just what's right for the business or the clients.
I have a production meeting with my husband at the start of every week to work out who is in charge of which activities for the week. I also take regular breaks and work in regular ten to 12-week blocks with at least a week's break in between to provide time for rejuvenating my relationships and myself. Don't let your business pursuits prevent you from staying connected with your loved ones.
Perspective - don't let work overtake your life. Make sure you don't sacrifice too much or you'll burn out and wish you didn't have to work at all.
This website contains even more great tips from Michelle Bowden.
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Today's success tip comes from David Straughton.
David Straughton is an in-demand corporate and public speaker. Founder of Think Big and trainer to hundreds of companies on topics such as generating sales, improving productivity and much more.
What are your top tips for developing a great small business?
* Have just one captain - decide who's really in charge because shared responsibility is no responsibility.
* Create and communicate more organisational clarity - be really clear about the roles and responsibilities within your company and articulate your vision.
* Focus - it's really important to focus on your company's direction, with special attention given to the financial side of the business.
* Plan! (P.P.P.P.P.P.) - prior preparation prevents a pretty poor performance.
* Develop more systems - 'Systemise the routine; humanise the exception'. (FedEx)
* Practise - make sure you offer cutting-edge customer service.
* Think - spend some time thinking about the various ways to be different, innovative, creative and exclusive.
* Don't pretend or delay - learn to take action right now!
* Go the extra mile - build great rapport and long-term relationships by doing that little bit extra.
This website contains even more great tips from David Straughton.
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