The First Step in Improving Leadership for Your Small Business
Improving leadership is critical to business growth. Without good leadership small businesses stagnate and fail, so how are you improving leadership for your business?
Improving leadership is critical to business growth. Without good leadership small businesses stagnate and fail, so how are you improving leadership for your business?
Creating Success Means Getting Past Your Negative “Personal Speak” After last week’s leadership post titled “Do You Have the Courage to be the Leader Your Business Needs?” I’ve had a lot of conversations about the [...]
Self-improvement has on leadership and business growth, however often owners don't have the courage to look in the mirror and fix the personal fears which hold them back from making the necessary changes to take [...]
Been at the beach for a short vacation this weekend and made a surprising observation. It doesn’t matter how big or small an establishment, if you think like an entrepreneur you can build a self-sustaining [...]
If you are a small business owners struggling with the growth of your business there are 3 potential strategic factors that are keeping you from small business growth. Do you fully understand your desired personal [...]
I attend a lot of meetings and seminars focused on exit planning. But, most fall short because they only focus on the transactional portion of the process instead of showing you what to do in [...]
Here we go, it’s decision time! If you’ve done what was necessary at the foundation and survival stages of the growth model you should be able to make the necessary decision now. As you will [...]
Consistent profitability is the goal of the survival stage. So, your operational focus needs to be increasing efficiency and productivity. If you can do what you do faster, you can improve cash flow which in turn [...]
This week let’s get back to looking at the strategic objectives within each business function as you move your business along the growth model. So, far we’ve looked at marketing and sales. Now let's see [...]
Small business growth is simpler than most people think. The problem is that most books, training, and so called gurus over complicate the puzzle to make themselves look smarter and charge you more. [...]
Before you can successfully marketing in the success growth stage, you must decide what you are trying to accomplish next with your business. Read my previous post titled Is Indecision Keeping You and Your Business [...]
A previous post I shared was on what your marketing in the foundation stage needs to strategically focus on. With breakeven systematically achieved, let's look at how to become more profitable which is the goal [...]
Marketing for startups is often difficult because small business owners don’t understand the difference between sales and marketing. (see my previous post Sales Slump? Do You Have the Right Resource Assigned?). Marketing for startups is [...]
The rapid growth stage of the growth cycle is all about becoming a big business. This is not for the faint of heart. And, most assuredly not for those owners that left corporate America because [...]
The past few weeks I have been sharing the how the sales function evolves as your business matures through the growth cycle. First we looked at sales in the foundation stage and then sales in [...]
If you’ve been following along on our blog then you are already familiar with the small business growth cycle. You also understand that each phase has a specific goal on which you must focus. This [...]
If you’ve been following along on our blog then you are already familiar with the business growth cycle. This week we want to begin looking functionally at what you should be doing within each phase [...]
Let's look at the rapid growth stage of the small business growth cycle and see what you need to navigate this challenge. I don’t spent much time on this growth stage because it represents the [...]
So, you want to accelerate startup growth. A while back I wrote an article title 4 Key to Creating a Profitable Business. It covered the objectives critical for startup companies to get out of the [...]
OK, so you’ve figured out that you are stuck in no-mans land. You understand the goal and objectives to achieve the self-sustainability stage of the growth cycle and are working on it. But, when you [...]