Pete’s Blog
You lead your business, it shouldn’t be leading you. This blog is designed to bring you the tips and tools that will propel you to a bigger, more focused future for your life and business!
The Power of a Simple Message in Digital Marketing
Running a business tends to make your to-do list quite long. This cuts into your freedom and keeps you from growing — or enjoying! — your...
The Top Pricing Myths of Entrepreneurship
As I've written about before, one of the top reasons that businesses fail is that they incorrectly price their products. You need to find the...
Decision Making Dashboard
Giving Your Business the Green Light to Grow If your business was a busy intersection, what would it look like? Is everything moving like clockwork,...
Learning to be resilient isn’t so hard!
When we think of that word, resiliency, it usually has positive connotations. Being resilient is a positive way of life. It is a great skill to...
Good Idea or Bad Idea…
It can happen anywhere, any time. In the middle of the night, on a bus ride, during a shower, while drinking your morning coffee. A business idea...
The Future of Retail isn’t What You Imagine
As the pandemic triggered widespread lockdowns and social-distancing restrictions, retail businesses were hit hard. Both the shutdowns and economic...
From Lonely Entrepreneur to Confident Team Leader
It can be lonely being an entrepreneur. Even if you're not a solopreneur per se, you may have only one or two contractors or vendors you work with....
Can You Actually Manage Time?
Time management is a concept not many have ever truly mastered. There are professionals who are ‘good’ at it, but the vast majority of us will never...
Simple Tools For Goal Setting Success!
Today we’re talking about goal setting; it’s a continuation of the content we’ve been putting out around planning to make 2022 a great year for your...
Stop Seeking A Work–Life Balance, Just Focus On Balance
As entrepreneurs, many of us started our own businesses to achieve greater freedom in our lives. Perhaps to you, that meant having a greater...
Being in Sales isn’t Icky!
Providing positive sales experiences is for most people, not something that’s really up for debate. The better experience you provide for buyers,...
Six Words That Can Change Your Life
So often in life, we find ourselves feeling trapped. Sometimes our journeys are interrupted by obstacles or roadblocks. Other times, it can feel...
Time is money…and it adds up!
We all experience those periods at work when it feels like we are drowning in ‘busy work’. You know, those tasks that are annoying and small but...
Can You Be Both A Good Salesperson and a Good Human?
As I’ve often discussed in my writings and podcasts, entrepreneurship always involves sales. All business owners rely on selling in some way. You...
3 Reasons Why Startups Fail — and How to Beat the Odds
Entrepreneurs are notoriously accepting of risk. They have to be, or else they could not take the plunge to start their own business. Unfortunately,...
The Power of Performance Management
You might think that Performance Management is self-explanatory, but it actually isn’t. Many people misinterpret Performance Management! Our...
Perfecting your Processes (is it possible?)
A phrase we hear more and more these days is, “trust the process”. One famous example was with the NBA’s Philadelphia 76’ers whose ‘process’ of...
Building a Balanced Life
The self-help industry is a massive, multibillion-dollar market — and most of it is for entrepreneurs. It makes sense. We entrepreneurs are always...