2017 | Teik Oh

Business Owners’ Self-Care

Sep 05 2017

Read the title and I’ll bet you’re all wondering what’s happened to me? Where are the step by step systems and articles I give you about how to build your business? What’s all this woo-woo “self-care” stuff?

Well if you really have been following me you will know that I constantly talk about the resilience required to own and operate a small business. In my online course “Start Your Own Business” I start with a module called “Your Personal Readiness” about making sure you know about the pressure and stress that comes with the success of entrepreneurship, and that you are set up for it.

Running a business is all about you – your idea, your vision, your drive….and your vulnerabilities.

While you (often?) celebrate wins, you can’t pretend it’s always a walk in the park.

So as a business owner, you need to stay healthy physically and mentally over the long haul to grow your business.

Here, I’m going to give you the 5 keys to ensuring that you “spend” enough on self-care through your business success.

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Quality Time At Work

Aug 29 2017

Ever gone home and thought: “what the #@%*& have I done all day?”

When you are running a business, it seems your day is not under your control. Customers need your attention, your team asks for your approval, suppliers email with problems, you open the mail and your bank account looks wrong. What do you do to get control back?

Getting quality time at work is really about focus, and a little bit of discipline. Getting control is about remembering that while you may not be in control of what happens on a day to day basis, in the sense that the results of any actions could go one way or another, you are certainly in control of what you do about it.

So, I have five systems you can implement in order to get that quality time at work, and I have created a downloadable infographic, and this video to show you how to put the system into place.

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Mini-Training: Choose Your Marketing Activities!

Aug 22 2017

This week I’m giving you a free mini-training session on how to choose your most appropriate marketing activities.

Many people think of “advertising” when they think of marketing. But advertising is not the only marketing activity. In fact, in many cases, advertising could be highly inappropriate as a marketing activity in a campaign.

Take for example the case of a professional or consultant. In their case, they find most of their new clients through referrals – previous clients telling friends who to go to. In their type of business, new clients don’t read an ad and say “wow, just the person I’m looking for,” they worry about how the consultant will work with them, whether they have the background and experience. They listen to people they know who have been helped by the consultant. A professional or consultant who chooses advertising of their services will not get value for money.

Sure, advertising has its place – even for the professional or consultant. They could use advertisements in social media to attract people who want to learn about a “how-to” and so gain a lead. But this isn’t advertising their services, it’s letting people get a taste of what the relationship would entail.

This mini-training is about how to choose your most appropriate marketing activities within your marketing campaign.

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5 Personal Changes to Become a Highly Successful Entrepreneur – Part 5

Aug 15 2017

Those of you who have been following me or have undertaken my online courses know that I have worked as a Business Consultant and Coach to small business owners all over the world for the last 30 years. I have studied in Business Schools and undertaken all kinds of business and finance courses, but this practical experience has given me the unique opportunity to see what works, and what doesn’t. It has allowed me to study success, and to tease out the habits, formulae, and steps to create a truly great business.

I have distilled the 5 personal changes anyone who wants to be a highly successful entrepreneur needs to make. Why make your own mistakes to learn from, when you can painlessly follow these 5 necessities that have been worked out from real-world experience?

This is the fifth personal change that you need to make to become a highly successful entrepreneur. If you have missed out on my earlier blog posts on the first 4 changes you need to make, get over to my website at teikoh.com to catch up.

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5 Personal Changes to Become a Highly Successful Entrepreneur – Part 4

Aug 08 2017

This is part 4 of a 5 part series on the personal changes you need to make to become a highly successful entrepreneur.

These are the “habits” that I have distilled from highly successful entrepreneurs that I have had the privilege of working with, from all over the world, over the last 30 years of my career as a business consultant. Success doesn’t just happen – successful people do things in a certain way and I have found that if you can systematise what they do, you can reconstruct what they do.

If you missed parts 1, 2 and 3, go to my website at https://teikoh.com to catch up and discover the first three personal changes you need to make to become a highly successful entrepreneur. This is about mind-set, and you need to change your mind-set in these particular ways to ensure success.

So let’s get to the fourth personal change you need to make to become a highly successful entrepreneur.

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Business Owners’ Self-Care

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Mini-Training: Choose Your Marketing Activities!

5 Personal Changes to Become a Highly Successful Entrepreneur – Part 5

5 Personal Changes to Become a Highly Successful Entrepreneur – Part 4