Today we’re featuring a guest post from Eduard Ezeanu from PeopleSkillsDecoded.com. Eduard is a communications coach from Bucharest, Romania.
You can follow Eduard on Twitter, on his blog or on Facebook.
Today’s Friday Follow (#FF)  is Eduard. …

Over the last few months I’ve heard and read a lot about Gary Vaynerchuk (Pronounced Vay-ner-chuk).
For those who don’t know Gary, he spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a …

Last week, whilst waiting for my wife, I was browsing my emails on my trusty iPhone and came across a great article by Chris Guillebeau on How to Conduct  Your Own Business Audit.
I thought this …

If your business grows to such a size that you need to recruit people, you should think of it like  the process of making friends. Choose well and your business will be all the better …

Almost every Friday now we are featuring guest posts from really great people who are changing the world one step at a time. Some of our guest writers are 1 person businesses, some have a …

In the past few weeks we’ve featured case studies as to how different businesses have benefited from our one hour brainstrorming and consultancy services, you can catch up on the other case studies …

Today is a major milestone in the life of this blog. This is the 200th post. May there be many more.
Today is also the 41st anniversary of  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepping out …

A couple of months ago I starting preparing my first information product – How to Achieve Your Dreams The Tomato Way. I documented it’s production in a series of posts How to Write Your Ebook.
As …

Last week, we published a great guest post by Murray Lunn from Murlu.com on How to Start a business in your spare time. If you’re starting a business in your spare time, chances are you’re …

Last week we featured a case study from our one hour brainstorming sessions about a business that increased it’s profits by creating an upsell. This recieved a great deal of comments and page views. So, …

This post is a response to a reader question following last week’s post on why you need a mastermind group.
John Soares posted a comment on the post:
Matthew, I’m a solo guy who’s been interested …

Maren Kate writer at Escaping the 9 to 5 inspired this post. Maren ran a promotion on her services to fund her Escape to Europe plan.
I don’t plan to travel to Europe this summer. My …

Next week (Monday 21st June – 23rd June) sees our 2nd pre-launch of our workbook How to Achieve Your Dreams the Tomato Way.  This is a complete step by step guide for entrepreneurs wanting to …

Next week (Monday 21st June – 23rd June) sees our 2nd pre-launch of our workbook How to Achieve Your Dreams the Tomato Way.  This is a complete step by step guide for …

If you’re visiting here from my guest post on theinfopreneur.net welcome. Please feel free to look around and see some great artilces which will help you grow your business. This site is for …

Brainstorming and Consulting
There’s times in our business lives where we don’t know where to turn. Sometimes, it’s a question of understanding what the next step is, other times it’s about taking your business to a …

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This post was inspired by a comment from Eleanor at Give A Brick in response to a guest post here from Eric at Bluepop13.
Eleanor said :
“I love asking questions to …

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Yesterday I talked about how to monetise your blog. One of the things I said was that when you build a community on your website some unexpected things can happen.
A few …

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Many blog owners try to monetise their site from day 1. However, the longer you hold out to monetise your site the more opportunites will come your way.
In this …

I’m trying to build a community here on www.bigredtomatocompany.co.uk for those who want to be a better leader or lead a better life. Whether you are the owner of a one person …

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In the first part of this two part post we looked at how to grow your revenue via the concept of 1000 True Fans. In this post we focus on how to …

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Many of us spend countless hours trying to attract new business, when in reality that new business could be staring at us in the face.
Our existing customers.
If you could get …

What is service? Or, more specifically, what is good service?
Take this story as an example:
You are the customer. You ask someone to produce a piece of work for you. The person preparing the work listens …

Many Big Red Tomato Company followers are already connecting with us on Twitter. (over 100 in the last week!).
But it occured to me, that many of you would also like to connect with other users …

There are many books and articles about business plan writing. Many will go into pages and pages of detail about what should be included in each section.
However, there is no requirement to do this.
But, it’s …

Southwest Airlines are famed for legendary customer service. More importantly allowing it’s team members to have fun whilst at work and expressing their individuality.
Would your team members be allowed to do this?