One way your entrepreneurial spirit can flourish

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A giant rock has been removed from the path of progress.

Everybody is talking about it but let’s not forget the economic devastation that it caused for so long.

Now is the time to look for opportunities. There is much work to be done and you can be part of the building, reinvigorating and rewiring.

Where can you find a resource to help you on your entrepreneurial journey? Continue reading “One way your entrepreneurial spirit can flourish”

How do you escape mental blocks?

"Aspatat Farm, Aranos, Namibia. Copyright Chesney Bradshaw 2016
“Aspatat Farm, Aranos, Namibia. Copyright Chesney Bradshaw 2016

A small business person came to me the other day with a problem. He is an intelligent person. He’s well educated. So he outlined his problem verbally with all the many facets to it. When he had finished I could see a pattern emerging. I’m just an ordinary person with no special powers although I wished I did have them. This person was doing something intelligent. He was talking out his problem and at the same time gaining greater clarity. Continue reading “How do you escape mental blocks?”

How all these people can multiply their services and income from just one breakthrough idea

Published by Bell & Cray Media
Published by Bell & Cray Media

Be aware that you can’t stand still in whatever profession or business you are in because changing times demand new ideas, new approaches and new methods.

The sad fact is that people are being left behind, professionals are being made redundant and businesses are closing down because of rapid change and economic upheaval.

Fortunately, there is a way to come up with new approaches, new concepts and new solutions whatever your professional business. For individuals who are inspired to act and small business owners who are ambitious and open to new ideas, opportunities can be found that put them ahead of their peers or competitors.

If you are in any one of the professions or small businesses listed below, you will find that my new book “Breakthrough Ideas: How to Produce Ideas for Profit in Your Life and Business” can help you quickly think up new products and better ways to multiply the value of your personal services and income.

Retail business owners – Look around, see how restaurants close in six months and become Asian clothing stores. Pool shops in six months become pet stores. What’s happening? Changing times. Use proven idea tools and techniques to “recession proof” your small retail business and diversify your customer base.
Bed and breakfast owners – You can increase your business by using techniques and tools that bring in more visitors and improve your gross margins.
Saturday morning market owners – Generate new ideas to more effectively attract quality store owners and bring more customers to your morning market.
Country business owners – If you’ve always yearned to live in the country and enjoy a country lifestyle but don’t know how you could make income, then use the easy-to-follow steps to come up with income-generating opportunities.
Sales managers – Punch-up your sales with personal brainstorming to give better value to your customers and leave your competitors grovelling in the dust. In this challenging economy, new solutions are crucial to new problems.
Trainers – Your same old “creativity” exercises no longer interest your participants. Why not come up with new creativity games or exercises that excite your participants… and encourage them to tell their friends?
Farmers – only if you’re a farmer will you know just how important profitability has become to farming operations. Now, you can come up with new ideas, new methods and approaches to make your farming income more viable. If you’ve wanted to develop a side-income, use the idea-generation system to produce a business that will provide “insurance” in tight times.
Teachers and lecturers in entrepreneurship – As entrepreneurship makes its way into basic and higher education curricula don’t be left behind. Get your creativity working to make your courses more real-world and intriguing, and show students how to turn their business ideas into viable new products and services.
Marketing agency owners – Your clients are demanding more creative ways of marketing on ever tight budgets. Don’t rely on luck or what you’ve done in the past. Learn to systematically come up with attention-getting, more profitable marketing plans and campaigns.

Breakthrough Ideas” it is for the solution-finder, the person who wants to become a better idea-generator and a sharper opportunity seeker. It’s based on real-world experience, research into creativity, proven methods and ideas that have succeeded. By the end of the first chapter, which will only take a few minutes, you will produce new ideas that could spark your personal or business breakthrough.

I will give you my 100% NO-RISK Guarantee if you want my book “Breakthrough Ideas”. If you are not absolutely delighted, I will promptly refund your purchase. Just send your copy back to me. No questions asked. No hard feelings.

Do yourself a favour and pick up your copy today…

You will need to grab this special edition NOW for just $29.95!

Don’t you think you owe it to yourself to invest at no risk this small amount in your future?

Inspire yourself to act NOW. Enough stalling, go get your own copy NOW!

How do you detect a good business owner in a blackout?

(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)
(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)

How do you spot a good business owner when the lights go out? It’s easy. In the darkness of a local shopping centre, you may find the lights on at a small pizza takeaway and restaurant with the sound of a diesel or petrol generator chugging away furiously.

Small business owners shouldn’t be lulled into doing nothing now that blackouts are less frequent. With a crisis in electrical supply, small business owners have to do their own thing to survive. But how many have taken this step to ensure the survival of their business? Continue reading “How do you detect a good business owner in a blackout?”

The heart of creative thinking – for new business ideas

Photo by Noah Hamilton
Photo by Noah Hamilton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A woman visited Costa Rica on a surfing holiday but had problems with the surfwear which kept coming off. She came up with an idea to make swimwear a suitable for women surfers. Before long she had a surfwear line available in surf shops and other outlets.

People wish they could come up with new business ideas but hit a brick wall. It’s as though the creative imagination has gone on holiday. Continue reading “The heart of creative thinking – for new business ideas”

Be aware of negative attitudes towards “problems”

IMG-20150822-00887Automatically seeing a problem as “negative” can prevent you from getting the facts both positive and negative to an issue. As creative consultant Man Min Basadur says, our negative perceptions cause us to avoid problems rather than to seek them out.

“We will seek only the facts that support our preconceived negative view, leading to inadequate and off-target problem defining,” Basadur says. Continue reading “Be aware of negative attitudes towards “problems””

Creative ideas needed to stop elephants destroying traffic-counting devices in game park

English: Elephant mating ritual (No. 2 in a se...
English: Elephant mating ritual (No. 2 in a series of 5 photos) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A creative idea was needed to stop elephants damaging traffic-counting devices during a study in a nature reserve on roadkill. Motorists speeding in the nature park were monitored with the use of traffic-counting devices but the elephants discovered them and took a liking to the devices.

If you were faced with a similar challenge, what idea would you come up with to prevent the elephants damaging the traffic-counting equipment? Continue reading “Creative ideas needed to stop elephants destroying traffic-counting devices in game park”

No matter how creative you are, second-guess customers at your own peril – 8 golden rules

A couple previously in “marketing” opened a local restaurant-coffee shop with good intentions but after 18 months were forced to sell it. What went wrong?

Strangely enough, it’s simple. They decided they knew what customers wanted. It’s a common mistake. But costly.

In the last few months you could see that things were going wrong. They put exotic items on the menu, attracted the wrong beer swilling crowd, drunken and obnoxious, took away the specials and started charging for Wi-Fi unless you spent a minimum of R50. Continue reading “No matter how creative you are, second-guess customers at your own peril – 8 golden rules”

How valuable is “creativity” in your life?

(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)
(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)

A small business owner has bought a second-hand restaurant-coffee shop that the previous owner failed to run profitably. So, you might think, what can the new owner do that is going to be different? Has he got new ideas?

The short answer is that the new owner has several ideas on how to turn the business around. I can tell you he’s wasting no time. He’s already clearly defined his market and in the first week is making big changes.

How does this relate to you? Continue reading “How valuable is “creativity” in your life?”

Creativity comes in handy during a downturn

(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)
(Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)

A consumer goods company that came up against an economic downturn decided to turn to the creativity of its employees to reduce internal waste. The company took this action rather than bringing in an external consultant who would most likely have introduced employee retrenchments.

The result: employees identified close to 30 waste points and saved the company a potential $12 million, according to a case study reported in an industrial management journal. Continue reading “Creativity comes in handy during a downturn”