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Knowing When to Cut Your Losses

Hi, reader’s. I was working with a client the other day who has a number of small businesses, but this one business in particular wasn’t doing very well. In fact, it had lost money every year since virtually it started ten years ago. I said to them: “Let’s end this one. Let’s cut our losses and move on from this one. There’s just no way that it’s going to work.”

It was just a poor business concept. They said to me, as they say each year, ” one more time, one more year. I think we can do better.” I looked them in the eye and said, “You really believe that this business can be successful this year, that it can turn a profit?” They looked me in the eye and said, “No, probably not.”

There’s an old Turkish proverb that applies: no matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, turn back. That’s great advice. Did they? No. Will we have the conversation again next year? Yes. Don’t let that be your business.

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5 Best Online Meeting App for Your Busy Schedule

How do you take out time to meet with Clients, meeting with team or to arrange a party for having fun with friend? Being a professionalist it could be tough for you.

Whether it’s about business or just trying to arrange a dinner with friends, Online meeting app is the simplest way to find a suitable time to meet.

Get your schedule in better shape in 2015 with the help of one of these fantastic meeting apps.

These five meeting app will help you connect with people easily in your hectic schedule.

SwipeToMeet:- SwipeToMeet is a free mobile scheduling app that makes finding a suitable time with everyone as easy as swiping a match on Tinder. Scheduling starts with the organizer answering three questions: What time of the day, how long and where. After that, the service does the entire scheduling math and makes adaptive suggestions based on everyone’s known availability and answers already received. Scheduling invitations are delivered via SMS and the swiping is done on a mobile site so no app installation is necessary to participate.

Leading Meetings:- Leading Meetings helps managers to easily have awesome team meetings. Awesome meetings are collaborative, enjoyable and productive. This web and mobile application helps you to put together a great meeting agenda, to assign actions during the meeting and to follow up on progress after the meeting. It’s time to start having awesome meetings!

Solid :- Solid is an online meeting management tool that smartly helps you to get everyone prepared for a successful meeting, keep the meeting focused on the agenda, and receive actionable minutes right after the meeting.

Thirtymin:- Thirtymin is the fastest and easiest way to set high-impact, face-to-face meetings. Connect with people who inspire you, who can help build your business, or can give you critical insight. Or just connect with someone you’d otherwise never meet to build a bond and broaden your horizons.
Thirtymin users thrive on the power of spontaneity and urgency. The meeting has to happen within 7 days and only for 30 minutes, so both sides are motivated to make it count! Pitch an idea. Forge a friendship. Share a story. Learn what makes people tick. Make it precious.

Meetin.gs:– makes it easier to organize meetings. Schedule and organize a meeting effortlessly over organizational boundaries: no passwords, no registrations, and no download. Meetin.gs creates a shared online space for meeting collaboration, including files, shared documents, notes, and agenda.

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Focus on Your Strengths to Maximize Productivity

Hi. Suraj here. Here’s a thought on your personal development. I’ve said before that it’s really important for you to understand what your strengths are and to work within those areas of strength, not to focus on those areas that you’re not as strong or even weak in. The idea being that when you focus at what you’re really, really good at, you’ll bring the maximum amount of value to your life, to your relationships and to your business. When we’re asked, “What are you really good at? What are you strong at?” We maybe have a stock answer of one or two things but have we really thought about what our strengths are?
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