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Insight: Top 10 Business Tips For Christmas – No 4

December 15, 2015May 6, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Christmas, Planning Art of War, business planning, Christmas, New Year, Sun, Tzu

This month we are running with a great series of TOP 10 tips for your business survival for the traditional break, and on into the

Charity: Top 10 Business Tips For Christmas – No 1

December 10, 2015May 6, 2016 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Christmas, Growth business planning, charity, Christmas, Goal Setting, New Year, Success

Hi there – Welcome to The Smart Train’s Top 10 Business Tips For Christmas, imperative for the survival of your business (and you!) This time we

Your Self-Care Work Manual

July 21, 2012May 16, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Management business planning, entrepreneur, fear, Goal Setting, self-care, setting goals

If you have not already thought about how you operate WITHIN your business, here is your self-care manual to help you focus on what is important for yourself

The Mindset Of An Entrepreneur

June 16, 2011March 20, 2015 Elaine Rogers Goal Setting, Success attitude, Business, business idea, business planning, entrepreneur, small business, smoking, start-up

This blog post is dedicated to RW and written to invoke thought, not provide you with the skills and attributes needed to be an Entrepreneur. There are hundreds of articles out there to provide you with the “know-how”. I am exploring the “why-how”.
If you are not a risk taker, stay “on the ladder”. The ATTITUDE part begins with Courage. Courage is hard to learn, but possible. We become courageous when we assert ourselves as Entrepreneurs. We become courageous when we believe in ourselves. We become more courageous when we allow ourselves to live the dream.

Barcamp Cork IV – Sat 20th Nov

November 15, 2010February 26, 2017 Elaine Rogers Business, Change Barcamp, BarcampCork, Business, Business Coaching, business development, business planning, conference, cork, managing, networking, Sales, seefin, start-up, strategy, unconference

Well, it is that time of year again.

Barcamp IV Cork is on this Saturday Nov 20th, Webworks, Cork City.

The Contrails of Business

September 20, 2010December 7, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Change business development, business planning, positive thinking, suceeding in business

Simply ask yourself then, are you doing business the exact same way as before, when things were good, the economy steady (in theory) and there was planty of money around? If your answer is yes, then how can that way of business work now? When it’s hot, we turn on the air conditioning, when it is cold, we turn on the heating.

Preparing for your Business

June 28, 2010March 9, 2015 Elaine Rogers Business Skills, Planning business development, business planning, Goal Setting, growing your business, idea, Planning, Success

I was watching a Song Thrush recently collecting twigs and grass for its nest. I was thinking it was quite late for her to start,