At business conferences I speak at, I often get asked, “If you had just five techniques you could use to improve a sales process, what five techniques would you use more than any other?” Well here is my answer. This list holds my 5 favorite sales techniques has been proven over the past 20 years…
Brian grew up in business. His dad, Ronnie, started a manufacturing firm, his mom, Marge, ran much of the administrative and financial aspects of the company, and family life revolved around the company. Brian studied engineering and earned his degree. After college he came back home and went to work for the family business, quickly…
In a few weeks, I’m going to be speaking at a one-day conference on scaling a medical practice in Tampa. As I was preparing for this event, I started writing out my best strategy to help a medical business leader refine and strengthen its core systems. What I realized was this business coaching system would…
Alan’s firm was growing, but growth was constrained because he needed new talent. His last two rounds of job postings on indeed.com brought a lot of inquiries, but none of them of the caliber he wanted. He made a simple mistake of thinking all he needed to do was think like an “employer” and just…
On a recent web enabled round table with 12 of my top business coaching clients we dived deep into the subject of key employee business coaching. What became clear that a big part of our job on our respective companies’ payroll was to develop our respective teams to grow as producers, team members, and leaders….
6 Tips to help Your New Employee Help You Both Stay Productive You know you need help to get even a fraction of your to do list done, but unless you have deep experience on how to best leverage the admin help you have in the office, often it feels like more work to get…
Johnathon, one of our business coaching clients, ran a successful professional services firm with just under $4 million a year in revenue. In his niche the firm had a strong reputation. When I questioned him about his pricing strategy he shared that he billed hourly for his professional staff. A deeper dive found that his…
When you give lots of keynotes or public talks to business owner and entrepreneurial groups like I do you get hit with the same questions over and over. One of the most common questions I get is, “How do I increase my profitability?” It’s a great question. Here in one list are 30 simple strategies…
Scaling a company the right way requires that you balance keeping a clear focus on those fewer, better things that will make a leveraged difference for your company and that you stay flexible to learn and adjust as you go.
Over the past 20 years of coaching business owners I’ve enjoyed a number of business coaching clients who ran small and mid-sized manufacturing businesses. Here is my take on the four main leverage points to scale a manufacturing business. My thinking on this was deeply influence by my friend and co-author of, Build a Business,…