business growth

Tighten Up Your Growth Team

February 15, 2011

For you to expand your business, you must be able to entrust your current business to your top people. Insist on having people whose excellence will help you reach for the stars.

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Manager Salaries Raise Overhead

January 27, 2011

To grow your business beyond “tiny,” you must have strong managers. But managers’ salaries are overhead. However, a good manager should pay for herself in several ways.

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O Woe Is Me! I’m Doomed!

August 10, 2010

Here’s “small business growth killer #1,” and it’s a point of view that pertains to a lot of people, probably most of us at some time. Since I’ve been there too, I’m putting it in first person. “Things aren’t working well for me now, and I’d really like to make my business work better. So [...]

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The 3 Barriers to Small Business Growth

August 2, 2010

Your business is growing and profitable, then BOOM, you hit a speed bump. Or you get stuck in a swamp. What happened? You ran into one of the growth barriers that are dang near universal.

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What are the leading indicators of business success?

October 15, 2009

With the entrepreneurs and small business owners I work with, here are some of the personal success indicators I look for.

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When to grow out of a home based business

August 12, 2008

Q: “When is it time to grow out of my home-based business?”  A: When I ran my business out of the house, my wife would say, “Mike, every flat surface in the house is your desk.” Clients would come in and plop down on the sofa. Our part time office assistant worked in the room [...]

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