The Referral-Based Mechanic
In his new book, Enhanced People Skills, John Terhune tells a great story about bringing his car to his mechanic for servicing (the warranty with his dealership had expired).
Read More Premature Scaling Kills Businesses
Venture capitalists sometimes make an error in directing their portfolio company CEOs to push resources to the limit and scale the business to immense size quickly, all to seize market share.
Read More Negotiate Properly to Secure a Beneficial Agreement
When your company or startup doesn’t make a good profit and you barely have any negotiating leverage, conventional negotiation rules don’t apply.
Read More How to Delegate to Boost Your Small Business Growth
Absent of delegating many of the jobs within your business, the only way to grow the top line is to raise your prices. You could increase sales, but to achieve that in any great measure, you would have convert more prospects, which will take more people.
Read More 6 Essential Financial Tips for Small Business Owners
It is universally agreed that doing taxes is everybody’s nightmare, particularly for small business owners. While average people don’t have to worry about them until the next year, small business owners usually have to make tax filing on a quarterly basis.
Read More How to Avoid a Data Disaster
Data loss can have a devastating impact on small businesses. In fact, 20% of small to medium businesses will suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years.
Read More How Will Franchising Affect Your Family?
When you’re getting ready to make your franchise business investment, it makes sense to think about how your life will change once you’re a franchisee. But you may also want to think about how your family’s lives will change.
Read More Critical Info to Know About Minimum Wage Law in Your Area
As a small business owner, it’s important to pay your employees at or above the legal minimum wage. As you probably know, the minimum wage is the lowest hourly rate that you as an employer can pay your employees.
Read More The Killer Closing Technique
Through my career, I’ve been “taught” and subjected to 100’s of different closes. The assumptive close, the puppy dog close, the limited time close, and the list goes on and on and on.
Read More 4 Tips on Handling Large Amounts of Data
Handing large amounts of data is now easier than ever. Considering that most of us use laptops and computers for business, it is important to have access to information all the time.
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