Use the Strategies of Top Online Retailers Like Amazon to Boost Your Holiday Sales Conversion Rate

As we enter into the final half of the fourth quarter, headlines shout how online giants like Amazon.com and others expect to increase online sales by billions of dollars.  Here are five powerful tips to increase your website conversion that they consistently use that allow them to maximize their sales conversion rates.  Follow these best practices and see your sales quickly increase. 1. Put your…

Professional Service Firms — A Powerful Strategy to Increase Your Profit Margin by 15% or More

Most professional service firms have operating profit margins from 25-40 percent.  This means that out of every dollar of revenue, 25-40 cents drops to their bottom line as pre-tax profits.  I want to share with you a simple strategy that one law firm I work with used to increase its operating profit margin by 29.5…

3 Things Silicon Valley Can Learn From Smaller Companies

With Uber and Google’s workplace diversity issues sparking headlines across the country this year, I wanted to share three things that will make a difference.  To be clear, none of these things are quick fixes.  All three of these ideas are designed to help create a company culture that is diverse and empowered.  This can sometimes take…

3 Often Overlooked Ways to Quickly Boost Your Profit Margin

One advantage of working with hundreds of business coaching clients is that we get to see which “levers” in a business are the easiest to quickly impact profitability. Here are my three favorite “profit levers” for you to adjust to increase your company’s operating profit margin. One: Raise Your Prices I know you may be…

A Little-Known Secret to Be a Much More Effective Leader

Earlier today I was leading a web cam round table with a dozen of our top business coaching clients. The subject was leadership. During a portion of this round table the participants were sharing how they were personally using a simple delegation technique we had taught them called the “Capability Spectrum”. Imagine a scale from…