Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
Always Prepared: What Every Professional Needs to Have on a Business Trip
Going on a business trip isn’t all fun and games like a vacation. You’ll have some downtime to explore the city, but you’ll usually be doing things that are related to work, such as going to meetings and learning new things about how to perform your job. Before leaving home, there are a few things…
Read MoreThe Essentials You Need for International Expansion
Once you’re successfully up and running on a national scale, you might want to think about where you can go next to turn your small business into something bigger and better. A great way to do this is to move onto the international scene and get your goods and services sold overseas. There isn’t a…
Read MoreWhat I Learned About Business from the Cofounder of Waffle House
Last month, we lost one of the great entrepreneurs. Joe Rogers Sr. was the cofounder of the Waffle House chain of diners, building the company from the ground up, from the first store in Avondale Estates outside Atlanta in 1955. Today, there are more than 1,900 Waffle House locations, and their yellow signs are iconic…
Read More10 Questions Every Business Buyer Wants Answered
A business broker will tell you that putting yourself in a buyer’s shoes will get you a long way towards a successful business sale. To support your sale preparations, here’s a rundown of 10 common questions asked by business buyers, together with some sensible answers that will put your business in the best possible light…
Read MoreWill You Be Happy at Your Finish Line?
Have you figured out what you want to have, or to be, when you reach the end of your personal run in this business life? It is a fair question. Most of us work in our businesses, either as managers or owners, and rarely step outside to think about how this will end in a…
Read MoreThe Billion-Dollar Idea Fallacy
What is wrong, you ask, with thinking your business idea is worth a billion dollar idea? That you have the next unicorn? Nothing… Nothing. That’s a dream. We all dream. We dream of writing a great novel, being a pro athlete, being a movie star, or being Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg. The younger…
Read MoreIdea of the Month Club
Remember back in the day when you could subscribe to a Book of the Month Club or a Record of the Month Club? It was a novel idea to have a new item chosen with your preferences in mind and have it sent directly to your house. Today, of course, there are many direct mail…
Read More5 Tips for Growing an International Company
In an ever-changing world, diversifying your business opportunities is the key to success. As the world grows increasingly interconnected thanks to technology and globalization, we have the chance to change not only how we do business, but where we do business. Expanding to global markets isn’t just for large companies with seemingly unlimited income; small…
Read MoreTranslating Your Hobby into a Business Breakthrough
To my surprise and delight, I recently found motivation in unexpected ways. I’m someone who has always really enjoyed looking at other people’s gardens. I literally stop to smell the roses, lilacs, peonies and any other blooming vegetation—but I’ve always told myself that gardening was not for me. The idea of digging around in the dirt…
Read MoreControl Your Euphoria
One thing a senior manager can count on is that someday, something will go right, very right. Well, after all the disappointments, pressure and outright failures, this is NEWS. So we tend to go overboard a bit. As a member of the board, I’ve received calls on weekends, at night and texts at hours I…
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