Too Busy For These 5 Things? You’re Closer To Business Failure Than You Think
I googled the reasons for businesses failure and on the first page I found articles detailing out a list of 80+ issues! Here’s a quick list of the posts that were listed... As I read through each post it seemed to me that all of these...
6 Actions 5 Days Apart – The Proven 30 Day Business Rhythm
If I asked your employees, would every single one of them say that they know the rhythm that drives your business? Better yet, would all of their answers match? Or does your business sometimes stumble over its own feet? A business...
How to Decide What a Small Business Owner Should be Paid
How much should you pay yourself? It’s not what you think. Many small business owners struggle with their own paychecks because of all the needs of the business. There’s the need to keep enough cash in the business. How much is...
This 1 Easy Rule Simplifies 6 Areas of Your Business
It really is the simple things. Have you ever noticed that certain activities in your business seem to have their own natural laws? Today I’m going to give you one easy-to-follow natural law (rule) that affects six activities in your...
Picking Winners In Your Annual Strategic Planning
What about the money? How do you decide which projects and programs get funded in you annual strategic planning? It’s time to hear from Finance. They’re a bit like a traffic cop in this process because this is where we make decisions about...
Strategic Planning: Creating the Operations Piece
What does solving a jigsaw puzzle have to do with strategic planning? And what’s the best and fastest way to solve a jigsaw puzzle? According to jigsaw puzzle experts, it’s best to have 2 or 3 people working on it. You start first by assembly the edge...
New Ownership Killed My Dad’s Barbershop
Whether you know it or not... You're on stage one-hundred percent of the time. And the smallest word or action can become something wonderful or something devastating. How to Get Rid of Customers One hot July Arizona morning about a year after my dad had sold his...
Do You Have a Dealmaker Mindset?
A good dealmaker has a way about them... Imagine not being aware of how certain negotiation techniques are being used against you or how your response in those situations hurts you... Now throw in the idea of having a negative vision of your counterpart and the idea...
5 Ways Samuel L. Jackson Taught Us How to Negotiate Better
None of them involves a gun either. Learning how to negotiate is equal parts science and art. The good news is that it can be learned. And my guess is that if your teacher was Samuel L. Jackson you’d remember every @#$%*&^! lesson. I’ve put together five lessons from...
Updating Your Strategic Plan? Do Your Sales Plan First
Small companies tend to wait until far too late into the year to start their strategic planning for the next year. We're going to change that with this series. I'm going to give you the strategic planning road map. And I’ll chunk it down for you into manageable...
Hiring Right Isn’t About Luck
Hiring the wrong person sucks... It sucks for you, and... It sucks for them. Stacks of books have been written about hiring the right person. If you hire enough people in your career, eventually you’ll experience some frustration with a hire that doesn’t work out. You...
Make quick decisions without screwing up your strategic plan
Everybody knows it... Your ability to make the right decisions without wasting time has a lot to do with how successful your business will be. So what's the process for making this possible?.?.?... a) Have a strategic plan to begin with; and b) Have a strategic...
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