9 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Business

What is your business worth? To you, the business may be priceless; if you built the business from the ground up, you might have a personal attachment to the organization that can’t be quantified. But most investors and strategic acquirers are going to be more interested in determining an exact, numerical value for your business.…

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How to Pack More Value Into your Product or Service

In a market economy, there are any number of buyers and sellers of similar products. In order to beat out competition, most businesses will offer steep discounts. But this isn’t sustainable for many businesses. Fortunately, there are more commercially viable ways to attract customers without saddling the books with debt. Conventional mass advertising has reached…

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6 Ways To Increase The Value Of Your Startup Business

One of the best ways to create a new income stream and generate money without having to punch a clock is to build a startup business. A startup business is one that has just been started and it can be in any industry or niche of your liking. Of course, one of the hardest things…

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Are You Confident Enough In Your Value Not To Discount?

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Discounting has reached Pandemic levels. It used to be something we used as a last resort, and only under extreme duress. Today, responding to a prospecting call earns a discount. Proposals come with a price and then either an automatically applied discount, or hints at a discount. Something like, “Buy by the end of the…

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Doing What Works in Troubled Times

Everyone is struggling to understand what they should be doing in these very difficult times. We are struggling to understand what works, whether it’s how we lead our people, how we work on a daily basis, how we engage our customers, how we move forward. The crisis has created a heightened sense of urgency around…

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Are You the Salesperson Creating Value for Your Customer?

I was talking to a team of sales people about engaging their customers with insight and getting them to think about their businesses in different ways. They happened to sell supply chain management software. The software, like most other supply chain software solutions enabled their customers to better understand and manage inventory, orders, quality, scheduling…

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What Problem is Your Customer Really Trying to Solve?

The majority of sales people, unfortunately are just peddlers—walking, talking brochures. Needless to say, customers are finding digital sources of information much more useful than talking to those sales people. The data consistently shows customers limit contact with these types of sales people to the very end of the buying process. Some few sales people…

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How to Increase the Value of Your Business Before a Sale

Countless entrepreneurs have worked tirelessly for years in order to turn their commercial dreams into a reality. Now that you’ve finally climbed to the top of the marketplace and enjoy your status as a profitable business, however, you may be itching to move on to new and greener pastures. For many entrepreneurs, selling their successful…

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5 Ways to Make Your Company Stand Out

There must be at least several companies out there right now positioning to compete with you. If you’re large enough, you may be the target, and if smaller, you are the minnow not the shark—and need to be agile and creative. The five strategies: Picking one to emphasize So, how do you position yourself to…

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