A 7-part outline to help you create a winning business plan.
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A simple tactic to immediately increase your sales for little or no cost. Here’s how…
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One of the least understood tools available for growing your business is outsourcing. It allows you to expand capacity without having to formally hire large numbers of new staff; without having to invest in new capital equipment, without leasing a larger commercial space; and without having to invest in development costs for non-core parts of […]
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Warning! Too many companies wreck the odds of their new hires succeeding by how poorly they onboard them. Here are 10 tips to onboard a new team member the right way.
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The myth of the “lone wolf” entrepreneur is simply just that – a myth. The top business people all have a powerful peer group to help them success. Here’s how to form yours…
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A simple formula for leveraging Instagram to promote your product, along with 8 tips to get started now to use Instagram to sell more.
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Hiring is such a critical part of scaling your company that you must do it with great intentionality. Here are the 3 biggest reasons to hire deliberately and avoid shortcutting the process. (Hint: you’ve likely fallen guilty of one of more of these hiring pitfalls.)
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Too many companies only focus on top of line growth. Savvy business owners know that often the easiest path to growth their profits is to focus on their margins. Here are 5 concrete ways to improve your margins and earn more money.
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Too many companies charge far too little for their products and services. Here are 6 clues that you need to take a deeper strategic look at your pricing.
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The dream of most business owners is to build their businesses so that they are stable enough to thrive even without the owner there to oversee all the work and key decisions. But most of us business owners (myself included) are control freaks, so we find letting go of decisions and responsibility tough. (This is […]
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One of the highest leverage places to focus your time as a business owner is on the big picture strategic decisions you make. Here are 6 tips to make smarter strategic financial decisions to help you scale smarter.
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Too many business owners inadvertently choose solutions that limit the growth of their company. Learn how to choose scalable solutions that will aide you in scaling smarter and faster.
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Most business owners settle for building an “owner-reliant” company never realizing that when they do, they are vulnerable to these three all-to-common pitfalls.
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If you’ve ever wondered if it was worth the effort to build an owner independent company, here are 7 reasons why it is.
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Ever wonder why women owned businesses are 1.7 times more productive than male owned businesses? Here are 3 reasons why women make better business owners than men.
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Here are 5 tips to help you effectively lead a rapid growth company.
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Here are 6 simple questions for you to ask each quarter to help you grow your company.
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Rate you and your Leadership Pillar on these 6 essential variables.
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If your team is your top resource, then systematically scoring your HR function on these nine essential variables is a must.
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Check out this simple scorecard to grade your Sales/Marketing Pillar on the 9 essential variables.
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Are your operations as rock-solid as you think? Check out this simple scorecard to learn if it really is and gain insights to incrementally improve it.
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Check out this simple scorecard to help you incrementally improve your company’s Finance Pillar so you have a stable base upon which to scale.
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Your non-sales staff is likely scared and unsure of how they can help sell. Here are 6 simple ways to get your non-sales staff adding to your company’s revenues.
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A powerful format and 3-step process to create your own one-page quarterly strategic action plan to grow your company.
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To create more time you don’t need to work nights or weekends. Here is the best place to find more time…
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Here are the six tips to help you quickly scan through your initial resume stack and increase your odds of spotting your potential winners.
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Here is a short list of my top 6 apps and how I use them to better run my business.
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What really holds you back? Here are three soul-searching questions every entrepreneur must ask of him or herself.
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One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States, here are Stephanie’s top three lessons for successfully scaling your company and enjoying a great life post-exit.
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Ever wondered why you’re trapped working for your business? Here is the single greatest reason why most entrepreneurs fail when they try to let go of control.
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If you’ve ever been tempted to hold tightly on to the control within your company and just “do it yourself”, here are the 3 types of internal controls to help you intelligently let go of control and safely grow your company.
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Had enough with people telling you that you need systems? Here is the “how to” underpinnings to create systems to handle three very common company situations.
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Every business leader faces the tough choice about how they approach scaling their company – with two possibilities – one traps the owner in the business and limits the business, the other leads to freedom and the potential for sustained growth. Which will you choose?
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Want to get the best from your team and retain your top talent? Here are 22 simple ways to motivate your team (16 of them are essentially free!)
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Owning a service business can be tough, and running a service business day-in and day-out can be even tougher. Here are 6 tips to help you successfully scale your service business.
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You’ve heard all the talk about the need to systematize things in your business, but how do you get your team to buy in? Here’s how you make systems part of your company culture.
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Here are the 5 biggest management mistakes and how you can avoid making them. We’ve all seen it, the business leader who hovers over his or her direct reports smothering them with a real time barrage of corrections and “suggestions.” The result is a frustrated and impotent team who grow to become dependent on that […]
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8 concrete suggestions to control what for most companies is their largest expense – their staff costs.
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Here are the core stats on the real challenge facing business owners today – how to get growth without sacrificing your life to do it.
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The holy grail of any business is to tap into the deep abilities and intrinsic drive of your team to help your company successfully scale. Here is a simple 3-part formula to do just this.
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Here’s a simple distinction to help you make smarter spending decisions to better scale your company.
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Use this checklist of job functions in your company as a wakeup call to help you scale.
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How one business owner got his hand caught in the cookie jar while on a vacation in Paris with his wife…
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Struggling to get out of the owner-reliance trap? Follow this concrete map to successfully scale your company.
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Avoid the expensive mistake that leaves your key team members vulnerable to jumping ship with this simple lesson that you’ll have to learn – one way or the other…
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David and Jim talk about David’s book Scale. We get a glimpse into the book as David shares nuggets of information to help people position their company to be more valuable and more marketable.
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If you’re spread too thin and pulled in too many directions, here are 3 simple steps you can take today to get back in control of your business day.
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If you have an online business, here are the 4 keys to sustainably scaling your company from Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman.
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Which of these three common excuses are holding you back and trapping your company in the owner-reliance trap?
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What are your distinctions around time? Here is a breakthrough new tool to help you see time and your use of time in a wholly new way. We call it the Time Value Matrix…
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If you’ve ever wanted a concrete map to guide your efforts scaling your company, here is a simple model to direct your focus and help you sequentially overcome the predictable obstacles to scaling your business.
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Service businesses are one of the highest percentage category businesses to get stuck in the “Self Employment Trap”. Learn the 5 top leverage points to break out of this trap and get your life back.
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Company culture helps your team successfully handle novel situations. Here are 6 tips to more effectively build your company’s culture.
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Which of these 5 expensive mistakes is hurting your company’s growth? Read through this concise list and evaluate your company’s hiring practices.
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Effective leaders know how to leverage their teams to generate winning ideas and plans of action. Here is a simple 8-step process to harness your team to and brainstorm better solutions.
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Learn 3 key lessons you can apply to successfully scale your company.
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The bottom line items you need to check off before you finalize any partnership. Are you skipping any by mistake?
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Thinking of bringing in a new partner or formalizing a long term joint venture, here are 30 questions you must ask up front – or else…
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10 Tips to Leverage Business Coaching to Grow the Right Way
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They rob you of your time and kill your productivity. What’s more they weaken your company. Which of these six addictions do you struggle with?
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