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Who’s Your Market? This is one of the age old questions of business. If you have an idea for a new business, who will buy your products or services? If you have an existing business, who has actually been giving you money for your products or services? Let me say that again, who has actually paid […]
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Are Entrepreneurs Risk Takers? I’m sure you’ve heard it before that business owners must be risk takers. I mean of course it’s more risky to start and run your own business than it is to work for some large stable company like Ford or Anderson Consulting. Not so fast my friend. The way I see […]
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This is a question we’ll usually ask a prospective client during our initial meeting. You’d be amazed at some of the responses we hear.The top 5 responses are: 1. I don’t know. 2. I have to ask my accountant. 3. I did/did not pay taxes last year. 4. I have cash in the bank. 5. I […]
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Yesterday I attended a conference called eMarketing for Entrepreneurs. As the title would suggest, the conference was geared to helping small business owners wade through what can often be the overwhelming and ever-changing world of Internet marketing. The conference included a great keynote address from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing who stressed the importance of marketing as […]
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Why is it that so many owners of small businesses can’t tell me about their vision? They are actually unprepared and uncomfortable discussing the subject. Hey! Ms business owner, what does your company look like in three, five or ten years from now? Paint me a picture, get me excited about where you and your […]
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When we first meet a potential client in our coaching business, one of the early questions we ask “is your company on the right path”? Every company can only be in a version of one of three conditions:growing, declining, or bumping along, up a quarter, down a quarter etc. When we ask that question of […]
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We are a society fascinated by numbers. People will quote sports stats of their favorite stars (everything from batting averages to quarterback ratings to field goal percentages), how much their favorite actress made for her latest film or how many characters they can text per minute on their blackberry. So why with all this focus […]
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I want to introduce our readers to someone I’ve been following for quite some time now, Joe Tye (aka America’s Values Coach). Joe is a great communicator and someone from whom I derive a great deal of insight and inspiration. Joe’s mission is to help people re-spark the spirit of purpose in their work and the […]
Read MoreI got this crazy idea the other day, while mowing the lawn of course! I was thinking back to my summers during high school and college when I spent most of my days as a caddie at The Elyria Country Club. I thought, you know what, my days as a caddie were pretty important in shaping and […]
Read MoreThis is a question I heard this morning from my dental hygienist! That’s just about the last thing you want to hear from someone wielding a sharp object in your mouth! Luckily for me (and everyone getting into the chair after me) she was referring to her role as owner of a business she had […]
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