Reading your P&L Statement improves your profit margin Most Small Business Owners don’t take advantage to learn what information their P&L statement provides. Why? Small Business Owners (SBOs) don’t know the value it offers them when making decisions, how to analyze it to improve business performance, or how it is created. When a SBO understands […]
Are you creating a peaceful business? When a new Small Business Owner (SBO) begins operating, many people ask, “What type of business are you creating?” I’d find it highly unusual if the new SBO answered, “A peaceful and profitable business.” Yet, when I speak with SBOs, this is precisely why they are creating their own […]
Phone follow up with potential customers The effectiveness of phone follow up with customers and potential customers is being minimized in modern business. We aren’t utilizing one of our most commonly available tools – a phone. Yes, you heard me correctly. People still use phones to speak to one another. Small Business Owners, you need […]
Internal Business Partners: Marketing and Sales Every business needs sales to survive. Sales need marketing to attract and engage potential customers so they can be converted from lurkers to paying customers. This is a fact for every business. Your business is no different. Do sales happen without marketing? It is possible, but not probable! We’re […]
Independence Day and Your Business Independence Day is today in The United States of America. Canada celebrated their Independence Day on July 1st. All these Independence Day concepts had me pondering about the independence of owning a business. Small Business Owners (SBOs) are seriously committed to the growth and increasing value of their business. This […]
WHY I have penned 1000 blogposts for Business Leaders “Why?” is the question everyone asks me as they hear I have committed to serving Business Leaders and Small Business Owners via 1,000 blogposts. And this posts marks my 1000th blogpost. Yay! Yet, the yay isn’t for me, it’s for you! Why? You deserve practical and […]
Website analytics provide you with golden nuggets Website analytics are important to every Small Business Owner. Just because you haven’t looked at yours, doesn’t mean you won’t find valuable information to improve YOUR Business’s Performance. The fact that you don’t know what these analytics are revealing about your website’s performance is all the more reason […]
The power of owning a relationship in business Owning a relationship supports your business’s performance. Most Small Business Owners (SBOs) need to own another five relationships immediately. It appears owning a relationship has become a lost art over the past 20 years. There is a whole generation who doesn’t understand what this is and how […]
Jump start a productive day each workday Jump start has a variety of thoughts attached to it. I typically envision cars needing a jump to start, or a defibrillator to help a person’s heart start working again. Your Small Business needs you to provide it with a daily jump start. Are you providing yourself and […]
Stay on Course for YOUR Business’s Success We commonly hear, “Stay on course”; yet this isn’t the easiest thing to do, but it can be simple. I know this may feels like double talk, but it isn’t. This is one of the key lessons which supports YOUR Business’s Success. Recently, I was listening to the […]
