Big Red Tomato Company

7 Reasons You Need A Business Plan

Matthew Needham — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:24:47 +0000

“Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of...

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3 Things They Don’t Teach You About Success

Matthew Needham — Thu, 30 May 2013 23:00:37 +0000

This is a guest article by social confidence coach Eduard Ezeanu about the 3 things they don’t teach you about success. If you’re into personal development, you’ve probably heard a lot of ideas...

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The Ultimate Guide To Getting More Clients For Your Web Design Business

Matthew Needham — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:11:43 +0000

Growing a business takes time and effort. It takes consistent delivery of quality work and happy clients referring more clients to you. The hardest part for growing your business is in...

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How to Grow A Business In 20 Days

Matthew Needham — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:00:05 +0000

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle Growing your business is like going to the gym. You don’t get results overnight. ...

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How A Must Do List Will Grow Your Business

Matthew Needham — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:02:41 +0000

Many of the business owners I work with are stressed out busy people. They spend all day dealing with customer queries, processing sales orders and above all answering emails. All urgent...

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How to Hire A Business Coach

Matthew Needham — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:00:34 +0000

Many of my future clients are now tired and frustrated. They complain that they don’t have the freedom that they thought they would when they started out in their business. They don’t get...

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What’s in a name? The Story Behind The Big Red Tomato Company

Matthew Needham — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:00:12 +0000

The question I am most asked is why is The Big Red Tomato Company called The Big Red Tomato Company? After all, we aren’t big, we aren’t red and we don’t grow (or sell!) tomatoes. This is the story...

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The Only Productivity Tip You’ll Ever Need

Matthew Needham — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:00:56 +0000

If you read the post The Best Productivity Tip For Entrepreneurs, then you’ll love this this productivity guest post by Yolanda Facio. Yolanda is a productivity ninja, fellow entrepreneur and...

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120 Motivational Quotes For Business Owners

Matthew Needham — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:00:23 +0000

Let’s face it, running a business is hard work. And sometimes a lonely existence, which is why the experiences of others can be a shining light to keep you pressing on and motivated and stop...

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How to Increase Your Hourly Rate By $115,000 an hour

Matthew Needham — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:00:11 +0000

Framing changes everything If you ate at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant at Royal Hospital Road, in London, you’d expect to pay around £200 (US$300) for a meal for two including wine and...

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Why Every Small Business Owner Needs To Start With Why

Matthew Needham — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:00:31 +0000

Most small business owners can tell you what they do. In fact most small business owners can probably tell you how they do it. But very few can tell you why they do what they do. “Why do you do...

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How To Love Your Small Business

Matthew Needham — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:15:56 +0000

Close your eyes for a second and imagine your perfect day. (Go on, I’ll wait) Were you lying on beach sipping a cool glass of champagne listening to waves gently splash on the beach? Were you...

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Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good Enough

Matthew Needham — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:00:25 +0000

This article could have been 1000 words or more long. But it isn’t. It might not be perfect, but it is good enough. If I’d aimed for perfection the article would probably have never...

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The Low Information Diet – The Ultimate Diet For Business Owners

Matthew Needham — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:00:42 +0000

Most diets start in January as people start a New Year with the intention to loose a few pounds in weight. For a few days, at least, junk food and unhealthy options with have been replaced with...

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18 Ways To Get More Clients For Your Business

Matthew Needham — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:22:34 +0000

Would you like more clients for your business? Get your copy of my guide for free. Get more clients for your web design business (also works for other businesses too) is a...

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Business Growth Workout – Join For Free

Matthew Needham — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:00:37 +0000

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra Like most entrepreneurs, you’d love your business to grow. Maybe you dream about being the...

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Mindset: How To Achieve Anything

Matthew Needham — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:00:13 +0000

When I first speak to a new client they often tell me that it’s impossible to grow their business due to a lack of customers or due to the state of the economy. Whilst they may think...

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Challenge: Save £1000/$1000 in 30 days

Matthew Needham — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:00:21 +0000

[warning: this post could seriously improve your finances, if you're prepared to take action] At the start of a New Year many people start to think seriously about where their money goes. With...

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New Year, New You….what are your plans?

Matthew Needham — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:00:00 +0000

It’s that time of year where we turn a new page and set out what goals we want to achieve for the year. Firstly, what goals or objectives did you set out to achieve last year? Did you complete...

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How To Self Publish A Book: Review of APE

Matthew Needham — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:00:26 +0000

Many people have on their bucket list that they want to write a book, although sadly never get around to writing it. But even if they did manage to write it, with over 200,000 books published...

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Zig Ziglar: 36 Quotes For Business Owners

Matthew Needham — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:00:44 +0000

Zig Ziglar died on 28th November aged 86. As well as being a US Navy veteran in the Second World War, Ziglar was the top sales person in several companies before branching out on his own as a...

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How The Slow Boat From China Can Grow Your Business*

Matthew Needham — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:00:10 +0000

After 9 weeks on a boat, our furniture finally showed up yesterday, and as I write this, I’m surrounded by the remnants of 195 boxes. Yikes. But the pain of opening all those boxes and...

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How To Make Your Business Standout

Matthew Needham — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:00:37 +0000

Let’s face it, business today is tough. And nothing is tougher than making your business standout and be heard, so that your prospective customers spend money with you and not your competition....

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8 Client Getting Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

Matthew Needham — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:00:01 +0000

Just over a year ago I spent a lot of time driving. To pass the time, like many people do, I listened to the radio. Day after day of travelling at the same time made me realise that the content was...

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The Best Productivity Tip For Entrepreneurs

Matthew Needham — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:45 +0000

If you’re an entrepreneur chances are you’re looking to increase your productivity by make every minute count. But instead of looking at new tools, smartphones or systems, consider...

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How To Calculate Sales Growth

Matthew Needham — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:36 +0000

One of the many questions that I get asked by clients is “how do I work out my sales growth?” Fear not, the answer is much easier than you might think. Firstly, lets look at why sales...

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The 10 Business Books That Changed My Thinking

Matthew Needham — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:00:18 +0000

Every year there are 100′s if not 1000′s of business books published. But how do you know when you’ve read a good business book? When you’ve taken at least one lesson or idea...

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Growth Tips: How to Get Stuff Done

Matthew Needham — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:00:01 +0000

Clients come to us because they want to get results. They are fed up of writing long lists of tasks to complete maybe just one of them (if they’re lucky). It’s not because they are...

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Getting More Clients: Keeping Your Existing Customers Engaged

Matthew Needham — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:30:22 +0000

I obsess about getting more clients. Not because I necessarily need to get more clients myself, but because it’s the number one request I get from my own clients for advice to grow their...

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Getting More Clients: How To Identify Your Ideal Customer

Matthew Needham — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:00:39 +0000

I have been working with a client who was looking to grow her business by getting more clients. She believed that her typical client was a mid 30′s female, marrried or in a long term...

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