What to Look for When Reviewing Financial Statements
Reviewing financial statements begins during your business planning process. The last step of your business planning should be developing your financial budget. Your budget establishes the financial targets your team should focused on achieving as [...]
Monitoring Business Performance Means More Than Reviewing Your Financials
How do you keep the pulse of your business? By monitoring business performance so that you successfully achieve your business goal, and you must do it religiously. We know most owners don't do their financial [...]
4 Reasons Good Management Accounting Speeds Up Your Growth
I am not an accountant, I am a business growth consultant. But, I use management accounting information for planning and decision making every day when growing a company. So, I ask you. How good is [...]
How to Profitability Fix and Grow Your Business
Tuning Your Revenue Engine Predictively manage your business using an operational approach instead of reacting to things you see on your financial reports. Just sign up for our next FREE Tuning Your Revenue Engine webinar. Just click [...]
4 Tips on Being Smart with your Ecommerce Strategy
When it comes to your ecommerce store, you should be focused on building your business rather than the website. Your ecommerce website is, first of all, a business, and the actual website is simply the [...]
Finding Your Fire Again
If you are STUCK growing your business, this challenge is for you. This challenge will help you reconnect with the fire that drove when you first started their business. Join other business owners as they [...]
3 Reasons You Get Stuck Growing Your Business
In helping small business owners for more than 2 decades, I consistently see 3 distinct problems causing them to get frustrated as hell. You get stuck growing your business because you have one or more [...]
8 Business Growth Factors to Influence and Grow Your Business
In a previous post titled What is Your Business Growth Stage? , I discussed 5 stages and 8 factors influencing business growth. This is based on extensive research and two decades of experiencing them in [...]
What’s Really Important to You?
You always heard me say you need to figure out what you want in life before your business can be successful. So, at Thanksgiving, I believe it is more important than ever to revisit what’s [...]
It’ll Never Happen to Me – Business Succession Planning
The Hit by a Bus Scenario Anyone that owns a business has heard about the hit by a bus scenario at some point in time. The problem is we all deny it will ever happen [...]
Leading a Small Business vs. Large Organization
I learned my leadership very early in my career. In fact, I learned even before my career began. My leadership training came while I was in Air Force ROTC in college. From there I spent [...]
A Few Simple Things Bring Business Success
Business success doesn’t just happen. It’s a takes a lot of hard work. But, that hard work needs to be focused like a laser on what success means to you. Once you know what it [...]
Slaying the Big Hairy Monster
As human beings there is one thing that we all struggle with - fear. No matter how big or strong you are we all have some deep seated fear that influences us in some way. [...]
The Biggest Owner Obstacle to Business Success – FEAR!
I’ve had a number of clients and prospect lately pull back into their hard shell. So, I decided to take a step back and try to determine what was the owner obstacle! First, one thing [...]
How to Get Life Independence and Financial Freedom Using Your Business
Why did you start your business in the first place? If you're like most owners you thought it was your way to get independence and financial and freedom. So, why haven't you gotten there? Because [...]
Do You Think Like a Small Business Owner or Entrepreneur?
The Employee Scenarios Defined Several events recently occurred with client businesses that made me take a step back and really try to understand a why small business owner makes some of the decisions that [...]
SPARC – A Process for Creating Business Self-Sustainability
I run into business owners daily that are frustrated by how chained to their business they are. The reason for their frustration is that they started their business so that they could have MORE freedom, but [...]
A Successor – 5 Reasons to Make It a Priority
Business self-sustainability is one of the key topic I write about regularly, and a key factor is having a business successor. That’s because there are so many benefits that you get with a successor. The [...]