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A simple 3-step formula to improve your sales process and close more sales.

Have you ever been frustrated that your staff has ignored the step-by-step systems you created to lead them through a defined process? Well maybe the problem isn’t with your staff, but instead it lies with how you packaged the process you created. Every successful business system has two layers: the process layer and the format…

Klayton owned a successful retail and service contracting company in Atlanta, Georgia.  When I first met him he was in his early thirties and had a steadily growing business.  But, he had reached a point in the business that he was bogging down managing the day-to-day of running the company and as a result, his…

Here are 10 simple tips to guide your strategic planning for the coming year.

The 2015 four-part Maui Mastermind Master Series “Powerful Tools for Serious Business Owners” begins Jan. 9th to 11th at San Diego’s Paradise Point Resort & Spa.  “Scale Your Business: Breakthrough Ideas to Create and Sustain Growth” is the theme of small business coaching workshop, led by Maui Mastermind founder and CEO David Finkel. He is a Wall…

With the start of the fourth annual National Veterans Small Business Engagement conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta this week, it is good to know small businesses owned by veterans are endorsing the coaching they have received from Maui Mastermind. “The Maui Mastermind approach to scaling businesses has laid out a clear…

Cash flow is king, but options are queen. That was the theme of a Dec. 2 teleseminar by Maui Mastermind Chief Catalyst and COO Patty DeDominic, with an assist from business coach Mike McCormick. The cash flow teleseminar was in advance of the next Maui Mastermind conference Jan. 9 in San Diego. Patty emphasized businesses…

David Finkel was recently invited by INC.com and Huffington Post to blog on their business website twice a week. Here is a monthly roundup of the articles that David has posted on INC.com and Huffington Post.  Below are excerpts from the articles that have been posted and to read the entire blog post, simply click…

Today I wanted to share with you a simple question to spark you to increase the value of what you offer your customers or clients. This question is:  How can you increase the received value of your core product or service without increasing your costs? You’ll notice a new term here, “received value”.  In a…

A short while ago I got an email from Nate Bylick, a 2-time Maui Mastermind Wealth Summit graduate. 12 years ago when I first began working with Nate and his wife Maggie, they had a small real estate business, buying single-family houses in North Carolina.  At the time Nate shared with me how he had…