Business Owners Must Act: Strategy, Finances, Marketing and Administration
Right now, business owners don’t have the luxury to process and grieve: they have to act and do so decisively. Here are some strategic actions to consider.
5 Signs You are Burning Out (and 10 Strategies to Fix It!)
There’s a fair amount of content available these days on burnout. Far from our future of flying cars that The Jetsons promised us, we’re tapping out email responses while “making a visit” to the one place where most of us have to go at least once a day. Alas, burnout...
Continued Success in a Mature Market
A lot of business press focuses on the “next big thing,” or unicorns that roam around (or more often than not, get killed) the rarefied air of Silicon Valley. But you won’t often hear about those “boring” businesses that quietly bring in significant incomes for the...
Use the Net Promoter Score to Increase the Value of Your Business
We’ve seen the question posed so often after completing a transaction that we know the words by heart: “How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?” Unless you had a strongly positive or strongly negative experience, you’ll...
Case Study #29: Replacing Yourself
Some years ago, Jim Brown started a software company called TerrAlign. This Sales Territory Management Software designed the best possible territories for sales representatives. They started in pharmaceuticals, but quickly entered into the consumer goods and medical...