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The 10 “Bottom Lines” When Formalizing Any Partnership

The bottom line items you need to check off before you finalize any partnership. Are you skipping any by mistake?

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30 “Must Ask” Questions Before You Form Any Partnerships

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

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10 Tips to Leverage Business Coaching to Grow the Right Way

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The 6 Major Time Addictions

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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8 Tips to Better Manage Your Company’s Debt and Financing Relationships

If you use bank financing to operate your business, here are 8 valuable tips to better manage those relationships.

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5 Selling Systems to Increase Your Cash Flow!

If your business needs more systematic ways to increase sales, here are five powerful options to choose from.

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Five Strategies to Profit from Your Competitors

Leverage your competitors to help you grow sales and become more profitable. Here are 5 strategies to help you use your competitors to scale.

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5 Biggest Obstacles to Build a Professional Practice

Building a professional practice requires you to sidestep these 5 common obstacles. Here’s how…

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6 Tactics to Quickly Boost Your Cash Flow

Struggling with cash flow issues? Here are the 6 fastest tactics to get immediate relief.

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Using Formalized Referral Systems to Grow Your Sales

Formalized referral systems are not passive word of mouth. They are systematized, proactive tactics to help you leverage your existing thrilled customers to generate more business. Here’s 6 ways to do just this…

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10 Tips to Leverage Your Personal Assistant to Get More Done in Less Time

Here are 10 concrete tips to leverage your personal assistant to help you get your life back as you scale your company.

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11 Simple Strategies to Blow Through Procrastination and Get Things Done!

Struggling getting started? Here are 11 ways to blow through procrastination and get into productive action.

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10 Questions to Ask When You Design or Redesign a Process

Struggling to redesign your systems so that you do things better, cheaper, faster? Here are 10 questions to help you out.

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5 Formalized Referral Systems to Grow Your Sales

Here are 5 formalized referral systems to help you grow with very little cost or effort.

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3 Simple Steps to Improve Your Sales Process

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

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8 Sales and Marketing Questions to Help Your Business Systematically Scale

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 […]

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Cash Flow Teleseminar With Patty DeDominic Dec. 2, 2014

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 […]

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Monthly Roundup of David Finkel’s articles posted on INC.com and Huffington Post

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 […]

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Simple Question to Increase Your Value to Your Clients/Customers

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 […]

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The 2 Biggest Wealth Factors…

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 […]

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4 Tips to Design Your Exit Strategy

Hope your week got off to a great start. I have had several great conversations with clients about their exit strategies for their businesses.  One client has a CPA firm they want to sell, another has an investment company he wants to sell, and the third has a wholesale business he wants to sell in […]

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Escaping The Self-Employment Trap

The Trap It happens… a lot more than most of us would like to think.  We’re working so hard to grow our business that we don’t realize the way we’re doing it will trap us. The business can’t operate without us. If we don’t show up – the business suffers. If for some reason we […]

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8 Tips to Run an Effective Meeting

Today I want to talk about how you can stop wasting thousands of dollars every year on poorly run meetings! Think about how much time and money your company spends on meetings.  Yet so few executives know what it takes to make meetings crisp and productive. Here are 8 tips to make your meetings more […]

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The Top 3 Reasons I Keep Coming Back to Maui Year after Year

Each year a select group of entrepreneurs, investors, and committed wealth builders meet in Maui for a transformational weeklong wealth mastermind. I’m greatly anticipating and looking forward to being there in Maui with my peers this November again. I’ve been asked many times, “Patty, you’ve reached a place in your life where you’re financially free. […]

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The 3 Biggest Wealth Lessons from Maui

Have you ever wondered why our Maui Mastermind Wealth Summit participants would willingly invest $30,000 per couple to join us in Maui? And why over 60% of them sign up to come back year after year? One reason and one reason only—it works! For those of you who have been following Maui for years now […]

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6 Time Mastery Strategies to Free Up a Full Day Each Week to Build Your Business

We recently did a survey of business owners of companies with under $50 million per year in sales. One of the questions we asked them was what was the single biggest reason why you haven’t been able to grow your company as fast as you would have liked. One of the biggest limiting factors holding […]

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Business Coaching helps SAVE TIME & Money

Maui Mastermind clients have discovered they can get their LIVES BACK by becoming masters of their time. We want you to own your own business NOT have the business own you.

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5 Selling Systems to Increase your Cash Flow

I want to share with you five specific selling systems you can use to increase your business’s cash flow. My suggestion is that you read through this letter closely and choose one or two selling systems that you think would be most important for you to implement in your business this quarter.

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3 Metrics for your Marketing Score Board

I wanted to share with you three metrics (numbers) you must measure for your “marketing score board.” As I have in previous blogs, I am going to emphasize the theme of simplicity. Complicated metrics will just overwhelm you. You’ll use a simple score board. What’s more, a simple score board will help you to successfully […]

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