A Simple Recipe for Success

After observing many of my coaching clients, and understanding how individuals operate, I have realized that the simple recipe to your success is based on the following three principles:

1. Knowing where you stand with yourself:

Are you operating from a plan or blueprint, or do you get up in the morning not knowing how you wish to make the best use of your time? Planning in advance is one very simple solution that supports individuals to fast-track their own success.

2. Knowing where you stand with others:

Part of achieving success requires that you make time to meet up with others to conclude deals and to come to agreements on how you wish to work together going forward. Its critical that you get your prospects level of commitment should you wish your ultimate plan to manifest.

3. Ensuring that others know where they stand with you:

Its extremely important that you ensure that all important people in your life know where they stand with you. Be consistent in your actions, keep to your promises, and if you have employees, ensure that they know what their roles and responsibilities are.

Achieving success is all about adopting core leadership principles as mentioned above. Start setting the example and watch your plans take off :-)

'Ten of the Best' Web Applications

The 'cloud computing' revolution is now in full swing with some awesome web applications available to the inspiring entrepreneur to assist you in automating your business functions and activities, and which will allow you to save heaps of time and money. Forward Vision have done extensive research on the web and are proud to recommend the applications below for being extremely innovative, flexible, easy to set-up and which offer value for money. Click on the product logo's to be redirected to the relevant websites.

	Webnode offers a very professional looking and easy to use online CMS website builder allowing you to create a new website within minutes. You may use your own domain name (incl .co.za) and your website is also fully accessible for updating and viewing from mobile devices. (Big plus!)
	Dropbox is a very nifty application which allows you to automatically syncronize your files on your PC's to your own online secure file storage. You may share files through invites and shared web links and access this application on mobile devices. You also receive 2GB of free online storage.
	Google Apps for Business offers powerful and intuitive applications like GMail, Google Calander and Google Docs that can help reduce your IT costs and assist team players to collaborate more effectively and all for just $50 per user per year. (You are able to use your own domain name)
	Wufoo offers an online form builder to assist you in creating contact forms, online surveys and invitations so that you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without the need to understand HTML. The system integrates with various payment systems.
	Mail Chimp offers an online email marketing platform allowing you to build and manage your contact lists, design email campaigns (free templates available) and track your campaign results. You may store 1000 subscribers and send up to 6000 emails per month for free.
	37 Signals offers various intelligent web applications with Highrise being one of them. Use this application to track your leads, contacts and deals. Know who you talked to, what was said and when to follow-up. It is also one web-based address book for your entire company.
	SuperSaas offers a very easy to use online appointment scheduling platform which you can use for single appointments or for managing training workshops etc. The system syncronizes with Outlook and Google Calender and also automatically integrates with Paypal.
	Drawloop offers a complete document automation service via the web. In minutes you can web-enable the same Microsoft office files your business has been using for years. Use this platform to automatically generate complex sales proposals and generate invoices in an instant.
	Zendesk offers web-based customer support software with elegant ticket management and a self service customer community platform. Agile, smart and convenient for you and your clients. Helps you to stay on top of your customer conversations and to improve your customer retention ratio.
	Summitsoft offers some awesome business software applications suitable for the new business start-up and which are easy to download from the web and install on your PC. Products include logo design, email campaign and PC optimization software.