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Unveiling the Secrets: What Sets Successful Business Owners Apart & How We Assist Business Owners To Become The Best Of The Best

Successful business owners stand out from the crowd for a reason. They possess certain qualities and strategies that set them apart and drive their businesses to thrive. Becoming a successful business owner requires more than just hard work and determination. It demands a combination of strategic thinking, effective execution, time management, continuous learning, adaptability, accountability, and support. 

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6 Key Insights To Becoming A Phenomenal Salesperson

Selling is not just a job for me; it's a passion.

In this blog post I share my insights on how you can become a phenomenal salesperson, master the art of closing deals, and achieve unparalleled success in your business.


6 Benefits Of Customer Service Training For Your Sales Team

Read the benefits of why customer service training for your team is beneficial to your business.

Learn how to improve your customer service practices, increase customer satisfaction, improve your team morale and ultimately drive revenue growth.


Effective ways to improve time management for business owners.

Time management is a crucial aspect of running a successful business. As a business coach, helping business owners improve their time management skills can have a significant impact on their productivity and overall success.

In this blog post, we will explore some effective ways to improve time management for business owners.


How working with a business coach can improve your company's finances!

Learn the 7 benefits of working with a business coach to help you with your accounts and finance. From improved financial management and decision making to increased cash flow and financial stability, I can help you achieve your financial goals and build a strong foundation for your business's success.


Why are you not achieving the results you want in your business? 

Read our blog post on ways to achieve your business goals! If you struggle with setting and achieving goals, then get in touch for a Complementary Business Coaching session today, contact Megan from my office at hbdm@actioncoach.com


Marketing and Sales Lessons from Deep Sea Fishing

Many businesses are like the fisherman driving a boat aimlessly on a vast ocean of opportunities with a couple of baits out not quite sure what they are trying to catch or how to do it. 

Read the marketing lessons from Deep Sea Fishing and how we can assist you to improve your leads within the business.


How We Will Shape Our Youth into Successful Entrepreneurs

With record levels of unemployment in South Africa, entrepreneurship is often touted as the solution to bring the Youth into the economy. But how does one create a platform and road map to ensure that today’s youth become tomorrow’s successful business owners?  

Our country’s future lays in the palms of our Youth 🇿🇦 Let’s help them grow into successful entrepreneurs! Read our latest blog to find out how


There Will Always Be Something

The very real danger is that business owners get into a perpetual state of paralysis i.e. we are always waiting for something to pass before we really set and achieve our goals.  This is an extremely dangerous state to be in because time is our most valuable asset and the opportunity cost of time wasted on anxiety and procrastination is massive. The reality is that there will most likely always be something, so how do we build and run businesses that deliver on our financial and lifestyle goals?

We have to start with the end in mind in terms of setting really clear SMART goals for ourselves and for what we want out of our businesses.  This means being really clear on how much money you want from the business, how much time you want to work as well as what the business will look like when it is finished and how you will exit it at that point.


5 ways to ensure your business has strong, predictable cash flow

Cash Flow is the life blood of any business, in this blog post we highlight the 5 non negotiables that you need to implement in your business to ensure that you have strong predictable cash flow in your business. Take a read of this blog post if you want to ensure that your business always has stable cash flow or reach out to us for a more in depth analysis of your business and how we can assist you to take your business to the next level.

If you are lying awake at night worrying about cash flow in your business, then contact us for a complementary business coaching session: hbdm@actioncoach.com


Embrace Uncertainty In The Business World

Over the last couple of months, I have heard many people referring to the uncertain times that we live in and how that has impacted and sometimes even crippled businesses. The events of the last two years have brought the importance of leading in uncertain times to the top of many businesses’ agendas. 

However, this is not the first time that we had to deal with high levels of uncertainty. One only has to think of the following occurrences in our recent past to realize that uncertainty has been with us all the time. 

The sooner we “embrace” uncertainty and develop the skills to better deal with it – the better for us. Here we have to recognize that some people thrive on uncertainty and some people avoid it at all costs. Either way, it is not going to go away, and as leaders in business – we need to embrace it as well as assist our teams to better cope with uncertainty.


5 ways to avoid year-end burnout... 

This blog focuses on five strategies that immediately diminish feelings of being overwhelmed so you can refocus and get ready for the year ahead.

With the end of the year approaching, the hot subject up for discussion is how overwhelmed, beat, tired, and burned-out people are feeling due to “too much to do/can’t stop now” syndrome. 

Are you one of those people who can’t seem to stop “doing?” Then read my blog post about how you can avoid burn out and create more time for yourself and a better business.


Routines and Rituals to become a better business owner

Mindset: being a business owner or manager is a tough journey - you need to keep your head in the game and keep motivated and focused every single day. The best way to do this is though our routines. As our routines become our habits and this become who we are.

Implementing routines and rituals help us to become better at what ever we are aiming to achieve, but in business it is very important to be motivated and have a positive mindset so that you can achieve the goals at hand. 

As a business coach, I help clients take their business to the next level, but change in business needs to be paired with beneficial routines and rituals in your daily life!

Read about 5 routines that you can implement into your daily routine to become a better business owner, employee or individual!


Our 7 Point Guarantee  

If you don’t receive the results you should after 17 weeks of business coaching – it’s free! Read more about our Guarantee here!


Management 101 for business owners: Team Performance Management

Business owners often neglect this basic management task of team performance management and often end up doing the work themselves. You might have heard business owners saying:  If you want something done properly, then do it yourselves!  This does the business no favours because the team are not developed and the business owners runs the risk of working in the business to much which often leads to burnout and business failure.

Business owners have to prioritise building the right team and managing their performance through a structured and documented performance management system.


Top 10 Tips on Leadership

Read our latest blog post that highlights the TOP 10 LEADERSHIP TIPS! It focuses on 10 simple things, that you can as a leader can do! By starting this tomorrow, you can become be a better leader for your business and employees.

Please reach out to us if you are interested in EXECUTIVE coaching. We work with business owners and executives to build a better business!


Are you a workaholic?

Weekends are usually days of rest but for workaholics the day of rest never comes. Being a business owner means that there is ALWAYS unfinished work; one more email to read and one more phone call to make that simply can’t wait until Monday.....

This blog highlights traits of workaholics and how to over come this to free up your TIME!


The 5 Ways Business Chassis

If you want more performance from your business chassis you need to drive just five key areas, that compounded, will make a massive impact.  

Small incremental changes on each of these 5 Ways will have a compounded effect on your profit. If you focus on just a 10% increase in each of the 5 Ways, you’ll have a net effect of 46% increase in revenue and a 61% increase in profits. When last did your business deliver that?  


CREATE a 12-Month “Simple” Business Plan

The simplest business plan you’ll ever create. We focus on Revenue, Profit and employees for this exercise, as these are the baseline numbers for most businesses. The figures for this exercise don’t have to be exact and precise, they just have to be reasonable. 

  • Learn about the 7 step business plan
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Work from home checklist!

Working from home is the new normal and we want to ensure that you achieve the best results while working from home, so we’ve compiled a checklist just for you!


The mindset of a successful Entrepreneur!

Many entrepreneurs start their own businesses and focus on all the “logical” issues required to be successful in business, such as a Business Plan, a good product or service, getting the right pricing strategy, attracting the right target market, setting up good systems and recruiting top notch people.  

Whilst these issues are very important to be successful, many entrepreneurs do not invest sufficiently in their own personal development and growth.  One of the most commonly overlooked issues is developing the mindset to be successful in business and this is most often the most common cause of failure for the entrepreneur.


EveryONE EmployONE 

We are on a mission to improve our ever growing unemployment numbers in SA. We believe that the only way we will solve this problem is by helping business owners grow their businesses to the point that they can hire at least one more person. If every business in our country hires just one more person, we are able to drop the current unemployment rate by up to 50%.


Coaching. Not just for sports!

High performance comes with years of discipline, massive amounts of sacrifice and the inevitable roller coaster of highs and lows. No athlete, whether participating in an individual or team sport, would ever consider embarking on a path of high performance without a coach. That’s even after they’ve normally already dedicated literally decades to the same sport.

It’s then rather amusing actually when we pity those same athletes and say things like: ‘Shame their poor performance is directly linked to the number of games they’re playing in the modern era.’

So where does that then leave the poor entrepreneurs of this world?


ActionCOACHES VS Management Consultants

The market is full of people calling themselves coaches.  Many, however are consultants, who specialize in one area or industry and create dependence by doing everything for you OR life coaches who focus on you but do not provide any business knowledge and growth.

A business coach works with you to develop recommendations and implement changes in your business and your life.  Our goal is to Increase Your Time working ‘On’ The Business, Decrease Your Time working ‘In” the business and Increase your Time away from the Business.  


THE BEST DAYS AND TIMES TO SEND AN EMAIL MARKETING CAMPAIGN!

If you want your company’s emails to stand out in a crowded inbox then this blog post is for you! Everyone’s inboxes are filled with personal emails, work emails, product promotions and a lot of spam!

There are various approaches that you need to test and measure to see if your marketing campaign has been viewed by your audience, as there is no single approach that is guaranteed to get you views and interactions every time.


What is ActionCLUB? 


Would you play a game without any rules? 

A mini MBA program for entrepreneurs that builds a strong foundation around ALL the key fundamentals of running your own business. It is a set group coaching program run over 10 months, comprising of two, two-hour sessions per month in a group coaching format.


Do you have a business that makes your dreams come true? 

As 2020 drew to a close many people said that they had had enough of this terrible year that was filled with uncertainty, chance and fear and that could not wait for 2021, a new year and supposedly all the negative issues will stay in 2020! In the last year, during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became very clear that a lot of the 2020 challenges will persist in 2021 and the reality is that periods of great change and uncertainly always yield great opportunity for business owners that can adapt and pivot their offerings! 


Can you take a 3 month holiday from your business?

It’s the start of 2021 and most business owners are coming back from a well-deserved break after a really challenging 2020.  When you ask most business owners about their break they would normally say “It was awesome, but too short and I wish the business did not interrupt my break!”. We have the system and processes to help you transition from being self-employed to a business owner and entrepreneur!

Reach out today to start your journey and transform your business and personal life.... 


As a Business Owner YOU need a break NOT your marketing!

It has been a very emotionally draining and taxing year for most business owners and everyone that has survived the perils of lockdown with their business in tact deserves a medal. Having said that most of our clients have recently posted turnover levels higher than pre-covid levels indicating a really strong recovery trajectory and positioning their businesses well for a solid 2021.


Don't go on leave without a plan for 2021

This year will certainly be burned into the collective memories of business owners and one of the most challenging ever. No one was prepared for the lockdown and the emotional and physical bourdon on business owners was substantial.  The reality is that all our clients have survived the lockdown period and the majority are now posting very strong results as economic activity resumed...


Secrets of the most productive people!

Like it or not there are very few secrets left in the world. Google has already, for free, provided us with all the answers human beings know. So the ‘Secrets of the Most Productive People’ are already quite freely available. Less popular though and much more critical, is actually following that advice and implementing those secrets. Knowing isn’t sufficient enough and doing, therefore, becomes a much more important part of your success....


7 ways to thrive as a women Entrepreneur...

It may seem a little obtuse; a man writing a blog post advising women entrepreneurs on how to thrive, but after spending more than a decade interacting with female entrepreneurs across South Africa, these are my findings on the areas that will help women excel in the overall field of entrepreneurship..…....


7 business must do's.....

Entrepreneurship can be daunting. Whilst often the most exciting adventure one has ever undertaken; it can also be the most complex and frustrating. Sadly no-one taught you to be an entrepreneur either. In those moments of desperation, when you lack the clarity of where to turn, the memories of the sale of cupcakes at your school’s entrepreneurship day now seem to have been insufficient preparation for what you now face.…....


7 reasons to get an ActionCOACH today...

You’ll get to work less and relax more … The ActionCOACH business coaching program is like having a marketing manager, sales director, training coordinator, partner, confidant, mentor and friend all focusing on the success of your business…....


Should you develop your marketing strategy on the fly?

We teach and coach to the 10×10 marketing strategy approach. This means you should always aim to have at least 10 marketing strategies running for your business. In theory each strategy should deliver 10% of the leads giving you 100% of the leads that you require to build your business.....


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