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Business Coaching contains articles on small business strategies, business tools and business planning by Pittsburgh Small Business Coach Tom Volkar.


Sep 29 2010

Exploiting Your Authentic Edge

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Do you know your authentic edge in the marketplace? Are you exploiting it for maximum value? Your authentic edge is the value that only you can provide in the way that only you can provide it.

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Feb 09 2010

Authentic Business Building

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We’ve all experienced the ready acceptance of affinity. Having something in common like a similar university experience or hailing from the same neck of the woods seems to create an instantaneous bond that relaxes both parties.

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Apr 28 2009

Choose the Right Tool

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Tools
My Dad subscribed to the brute force method of fine carpentry. He believed everything could be fixed with a big screwdriver and a hammer. If a door frame wasn’t quite plumb, just loosen it with the screwdriver and give it a couple of whacks.
Business can be like that. If something isn’t quite right we can often force it into place with a few good whacks of hard work and effort. But these quick fixes in business and carpentry often come back to haunt us because we were addressing only symptoms.

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Apr 02 2009

Creative Consciousness Strategy

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istock_000004139892xsmallI’ve been observing the various states of being/doing, which we find ourselves in all day long. For small business entrepreneurs, strategic productivity is essential. To improve business productivity raise your state of consciousness.

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Mar 19 2009

How To Create and Complete By Using Strategies

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istock_000006400586xsmallA strategy is a plan of action. It’s a method for creating, doing or accomplishing something. We often hear of Marketing strategies, Business strategies, Brand strategies, etc., but the entrepreneurs and businesses owners I work with in my small business coaching practice mostly need Creation and Completion strategies.

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Mar 15 2009

How To Play a Bigger Business Game

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istock_000005171756xsmallIn my small business coaching, when I come across struggling small businesses, it’s often because they lack the driving focus of a clear business purpose. Is your business purpose clear enough to burn your boat on the shore?

Using the game model of business building provides a committed purpose. Playing the game of business is more focused, effective and fun.

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Feb 22 2009

How To Get On The Right Track

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istock_000004985695xsmallBeing on track feels flat out exhilarating! I’m talking about those vigorously inspiring times when you know you’re on the right track. That knowing has been gradually building within me and I want to help you find it as well.

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Jan 13 2009

Five Mood Enhancers for Business Success

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How to Feel Like Doing

What You Say You Want to Do

Anyone who wants to figure it all out before taking action, delays unnecessarily. Read In the Mood, by Seth Godin. He points out that we aren’t lacking information. But we are lacking the proper mood to do what we want to do.

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Dec 30 2008

Parlay Your Wisdom

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istock_000004658417xsmall1What’s your greatest business or blogging realization of 2008? Let’s give a great gift of wisdom to one another.

To realize means coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

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Dec 20 2008

Five Tools to Sharpen Your Authentic Edge

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axe-010You have an authentic edge that’s based on who you are, where you are in your business development and what you’ve experienced. That edge drives your personal power. It’s your natural positional advantage in the marketplace and you’ll struggle to the degree that you fail to exploit it.

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