Articles by author: Christina Suter

The good hearted business owner and what that means in different parts of your business is something I speak on often because I know I am not alone. I know plenty of you are like me, you run your business with the intention of helping others and making the world a better place.

I speak often about good hearted business owners, and I do so because I know I am not alone in being one. As good hearted business owners we can sometimes become stuck in our own belief systems. When it comes to taking care of our customers, our focus is usually customers come first and today I'm going to discuss what the pros and cons of that are.

Tune in today, Thursday June 23, 2016 at 8am and 2pm PT on www.awoptalk247.com

This months speaker is Aaron Norris who is Vice President of The Norris Group. His role at The Norris Group includes investor relations, business development, community outreach, marketing, public relations, and special events. Aaron has been in the real estate field for over a decade having worked in the construction design industry before joining The Norris Group in 2005.

As entrepreneurs we get up in the morning, plan out our day, and we have a list of things we want to do but before we know it, our day gets hijacked. So out of our list of 8 things to do, we only get 4 done and that repeats every day. The urgency of your client isn’t always your urgency.

You have a client who calls in and is upset over something and you feel the immediate need to solve/fix it. It's your responsibility as a small business owner to determine if their emergency needs to become your emergency. How to determine when to take on a client's urgency on today's Ask Christina First radio show.

Tune in today, Thursday June 16, 2016 at 8am and 2pm PT on www.awoptalk247.com

If it's happened to me then it's certainly happened to you-- you're at your desk, or walking down the hallway at work and suddenly you're stopped. Your time and work has been hijacked by someone else and now you will spend anywhere from the next 15 mins to 2 hours putting out a client or employee's urgent fire.

How many times have you found yourself sitting at your desk and having your work and time hijacked by a client or employee? The next thing you know, the next 15mins to 2 hours of your day is spent trying to put that fire out. How do you assess what's urgent and what's important?

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It is natural for us as entrepreneurs to want to be friends with our employees; we’re all personable people, so it happens. The thing you must be mindful of as an employer, however, is to be friendly with your employees, but not become their friend.

Most entrepreneurs have close relationships with their employees and want to be friends with their employees. What's important to understand in the business relationship between employees and owners is the difference between being friendly and being friends with your employees.

Tune in to the Ask Christina First Radio Show today, Thursday June 2, 2016 on www.awoptalk247.com at 8am and 2pm PT

David says that although real estate is unpredictable he loves putting a real estate deal together and he loves that real estate has a defined beginning and end. He says that although there are 'the sharks' in the real estate business, the majority of the people in the industry he's found to be good people and FIBI has allowed him to meet and work with many of the people who have great intentions.