Photo by Hamed Saber I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a workshop that I’m pulling together that will help small business owners build on their success.  As you know, running a small business is really complicated. There are a lot of hats involved.  Marketing, Sales, Finance, Leadership – and that’s just the stuff you […]

Networking is a tough thing to do – or at least it’s tough to do well.  If you were to look at the whole thing objectively, the primary reason to network is to benefit yourself or your business.  After all you want to grow your business, that’s the point. However, the catch-22 is that if […]

When I was young, Thanksgiving was about turkey, getting out of school for a couple of days and the sign that the Christmas season was starting.  It took a while for me to really appreciate the idea and the importance of being thankful for where I am and what I’ve got. With that in mind, […]

There’s a pervasive cultural image of the Entrepreneur as the new age Superman (or woman) that not only is supremely creative, but extremely business savvy, smooth talking and only requires 3 hours of sleep per day. In the E-Myth Revisted, Michael Gerber starts out his book with the following: The E-myth is the myth of […]

This is probably a rhetorical question for a small business owner.  You’ve got a million things to do ranging from: getting your bookkeeping and payroll updated (or at least reviewed), checking into the details of an HR question an employee brought up last week, a vague sense that you ought to have a PLAN for […]

I’ve previously mentioned the Business Effectiveness Analysis that we offer to clients (in the last newsletter).  If I do say so myself, it’s a pretty powerful tool that provides an industry benchmark comparison and  ‘what if?’ scenarios to preview your businesses’ future financial performance and answer questions like these: Do we have enough cash flow for next year […]