Double the Business Funding Potential of Your Growing Company

2022-04-19T04:55:37-07:00Accounting & Finance, Featured, Planning|

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 [...]

Self Awareness – Your First Step to Breakthrough Success

2022-01-12T12:00:57-07:00Featured, Personal Growth|

In my post The Major Barrier to Executing Your Strategic Plan, I talked about self-awareness as a key to moving your business agenda forward.  Mentioning the topic increased my self-awareness and I saw several posts [...]

The Major Barrier to Executing Your Strategic Plan

2022-01-12T11:59:14-07:00Featured, need keyword, Personal Growth|

Last week I update the learning objectives for an end-of-year strategic planning retreat workshop I conducted several years back.  Something struck me that could hold the answer to why small business owners struggle in executing [...]

Do You Have the Courage to be the Leader Your Business Needs?

2022-04-25T07:54:45-07:00Featured, Leadership, Personal Growth|

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 [...]

2 Skills Create Entrepreneurship on the Beach

2022-01-12T11:51:22-07:00Entrepreneurship, Featured, need keyword, Strategy|

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 [...]

Exit Your Business by Answering 3 Important Questions

2022-05-10T10:39:58-07:00Featured, Planning, Strategy, Succession_Exit|

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 [...]

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 [...]

4 Things to Build a Great Operation in the Foundation Stage

2021-02-23T16:33:16-07:00Featured, Foundation, need keyword, Operations|

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 [...]

2 Marketing Objectives Speed You Thru the Self-Sustainability Stage

2019-12-14T09:16:15-07:00Featured, need keyword, Sales & Marketing, Self-Sustainability|

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 [...]

Listening – The Best Marketing for Startups

2021-02-26T14:36:10-07:00Featured, Foundation, Sales & Marketing|

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 [...]