The Estimate Money Pit

2nd Apr 2014 Comments Off on The Estimate Money Pit

Over the past 3 years I have had the pleasure of conducting monthly marketing seminars for small business concrete repair […]

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Power Blogging – Telling Someone Else’s Story!

18th Jun 2013 Comments Off on Power Blogging – Telling Someone Else’s Story!

Over recent months I have used the term “Power Blogging” for clients. A simple definition is: the creation and publishing […]

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Over the last month I have read “The Breakthrough Company” by Keith R. McFarland  (1) several times. This book remains […]

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Compensation: Managing Expectations to Maximize Motivation

31st Oct 2011 Comments Off on Compensation: Managing Expectations to Maximize Motivation

Many entrepreneurs neglect to establish formal compensation structures. It’s easy to see why: in small businesses’ early stages, entire workforces […]

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Sales, Self-Evaluation, and the Evolution of Leadership

9th Oct 2011 Comments Off on Sales, Self-Evaluation, and the Evolution of Leadership

How closely should entrepreneurs involve themselves with sales? We tend to encounter this question when small businesses experience enough growth […]

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Investing in Continuity: The Second-in-Command

18th Sep 2011 Comments Off on Investing in Continuity: The Second-in-Command

We’ve worked with a number of small-business owners who take pleasure in being indispensable to their firms. This is easy […]

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The Subtleties of Pricing

28th Aug 2011 Comments Off on The Subtleties of Pricing

When deciding what to charge for their products or services, too many entrepreneurs narrow their focus to their competitors’ prices […]

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What’s the Point of Budgeting?

18th Jul 2011 Comments Off on What’s the Point of Budgeting?

Many small businesses operate without budgets. Others have budgets but don’t get enough out of them. These are problems. They […]

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Growth for Growth’s Sake

5th Jul 2011 Comments Off on Growth for Growth’s Sake

Let’s start with an apt truism: bigger isn’t always better. Most entrepreneurs will be quick to agree with this, at […]

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Acting School or Business School

28th Feb 2011 Comments Off on Acting School or Business School

During the last month we spent a good amount of time working with a client in advance of a pending […]

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