Are You Missing a Piece of Your Business Growth Plan?
Last week’s post was directed at those who set business growth as a goal for New Year. While the 7 questions addressed in the post are critical, they are not all the pieces to the growth [...]
3 Things to Get the Right People on the Bus
To build a business it takes a team. In fact, it’s more important than most small business owners think! Ask any investor or lender and 9 times out of 10 they’ll tell you the most [...]
4 Characteristics for Creating High Performance Organizations
In the past I posted on the importance of delegation and outsourcing. As I look at the common theme there, it hit me these are the characteristics of build high performance organizations! So, organized and [...]
Restore your business finance through debt consolidation – A guide for the entrepreneurs
If you’ve accumulated a huge amount of unsecured debts, you need not worry as you can opt for business debt consolidation through which you can finesse your business finances. If you’re a business owner, keeping [...]
Outsourcing Work: 3 Elements Make You More Successful
Last week I posted on the 5 things you can do to test if an affiliate partnership will work before you invest a lot of time and energy into a the relationship. To grow your [...]
Strategic Planning Success – A Real World Example
This weekend I ran into a prospect from a technology company that I had proposed a strategic planning retreat for their senior leadership team 3 or 4 month ago. Let’s call them company 1. We [...]
Double the Business Funding Potential of Your Growing Company
Getting business funding is always difficult. But, add the banking challenges of recent years and it only makes it harder! The truth is banks are still lending. And, there are many other sources of funding [...]
The 6 Step Business Success Process Re-Visited
Last week in the post Will Your Business Grow This Year? I asked some very tough questions to get you thinking about what’s necessary to assure you’ll hit your business goals for this year. Have [...]
Will Your Business Grow This Year? – Why or Why Not?
Did your business grow this year? Why or why not? If growth was not a goal this year, will it be a goal next year? These are questions you should be asking yourself right now [...]
Exit Your Business by Answering 3 Important Questions
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 [...]
3 Steps to Get Your Business Growing Again
All the small business economic trends according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) seem to be pointing to the fact that the economy is picking up. And, businesses are beginning to focus on [...]
Applying Action to Achieve Results – Business Success Step 4
With the first 3 steps of our business success formula completed you can now begin applying action to make your vision a reality. But, haphazardly applying action will get you nowhere fast. So, you need [...]
Maximizing Your Resources Speeds Business Success – Step 3
So now you have found your passion and have set a business vision to consciously use your company as a vehicle to realize success. Many people begin scrambling to make things happen. This is [...]
Success Step 2 – Create Your Business Vision
In Success Step 1 – Define You Passion, you got a better idea of what success really looks like to you – both personally and professionally. Now you need to apply this new found understanding [...]
Five Ways Accepting Mobile Payments Helps Expand Your Business
Contributed by Jacob Thompson A mobile merchant account allows for a business to accept mobile payments through a cell phone or mobile device. Here are just five ways accepting mobile payments can help expand your business. [...]
SUCCESS – 6 Steps That Get You There Faster!
Why Understanding Success is So Important Most people seek out the service of my company when they are frustrated. While often they say it is their business, more often than not it’s because they haven't [...]
16 Questions That Can Help You Fix Stagnant Growth
Stagnant growth is a result of a misfiring revenue engine. In order to grow your business you must expand. The revenue engine is a concept DE, Inc created to explain how to evaluate the operational [...]
Poor Cash Flow – 5 Things Cause It!
Poor cash flow is a critical concept that many entrepreneurs don’t fully understand. I believe this is because they usually hear about it from accountants that try to explain it in accounting terms. Poor cash [...]
Growing Your Business Again – Easy as A,B,C
I know small business owners with several companies within the construction and real estate industries that have nearly doubled their assets even in a bad economy. How is that possible? Growing a business is a [...]
Growing a Small Business – 3 Things Make It Happen Faster
Growing a small business is actually a simple process. There is a defined and predictable formula to small business growth. The problem is most small business owners don’t take the time to learn the formula! [...]