Do You Think Like a Small Business Owner or Entrepreneur?

2022-05-25T08:41:38-07:00Entrepreneurship, Foundation, Personal Growth, Survival|

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 [...]

Building Systems – 5 Steps to Establish a Repeatable & Scalable Business

2021-06-30T11:51:14-07:00Featured, need keyword, Operations, Succession_Exit, Survival|

In a previous post titled Getting Beyond the “Survival Stage” of Growth in Your Business, I touched on the process by which you begin building systems. Doing this allows your business to operate on its [...]

How to Profitably Refine Your Operational Focus in the Survival Stage

2020-08-09T17:12:10-07:00Featured, Operations, Survival|

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 [...]

How to Become More Profitable in the Self-Sustainability Stage

2022-03-11T06:13:14-07:00need keyword, Sales & Marketing, Survival|

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 [...]

5 Critical Sales Actions in the Survival Stage

2022-01-12T11:40:11-07:00Featured, need keyword, Sales & Marketing, Survival|

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 [...]

Getting Beyond the “Survival Stage” of Growth in Your Business

2019-08-24T17:26:32-07:00Featured, need keyword, Survival|

Ok, over the past 4 weeks I have laid the foundation for successfully growing your small business and becoming  an entrepreneur.  So what’s next?  Well, you might think understanding  each stage of the growth cycle [...]

8 Things You Can Do to Achieve the “Survival” Stage of Small Business Growth

2022-01-15T04:56:49-07:00Featured, need keyword, Survival|

In order to achieve success in any small business you must pass through several stages along the way.  You can't skip a step.  If you try then you and your business get stuck.  This happens [...]

Nowhere Land – Stuck Between Small Business Survival and Success

2022-05-26T11:39:06-07:00need keyword, Self-Sustainability, Strategy, Survival|

A great family and friends, beautiful home, nice cars, regular vacations, all the material things you could ever want.  Your life is a dream.  Sound familiar or like what you want for your life? I [...]