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Business Owner, Are You Ready for a Peer Group?
Many successful business owners use peer groups as a way to help hold themselves accountable, learn from the experience of others and uncover their blind spots. But are you ready for a peer group?...
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What Makes You So Different?
Do you want to attract customers who are predisposed to buy at a premium price; then you better know what they want and why they would choose what you have to sell. If you can’t answer with...
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Your Target Market: Shotgun, Rifle or Laser?
Is your marketing effort a shotgun, long range rifle or laser? By understanding your target market you can attract with laser focus those prospects who are predisposed to buy your offering at a...
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Younger Next Year, The Choice is Yours
Aging is evitable but decay is a choice. Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry Lodge in their book, Younger Next Year, challenge those of us approaching middle age to follow seven apparently simple but...
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How’s Your Pivot Move
Mike Maples, venture capitalist extraordinaire has introduced a concept that we should all consider, The Pivot. The Pivot is that extraordinarily courageous risky change in business direction that...
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Alignment or Execution?
Can you say with confidence that your organization, top to bottom has 100% effectiveness and efficiency in its alignment and execution? Are your people focused on those things that will have the...
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Are You Leveraging Your Strengths?
Our remedial society focuses on improving our weaknesses. Over 70% of parents when asked which subject they would help their child with if they could only choose one where the child got 2 –A’s,1-B...
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Finally–A Useful Purpose for Social Media
No the toilet is not the answer, its trust and sharing. Sounds simple enough but in business everyone seems to be looking for a way to monetize their social media. More common is simply the question,...
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You Have Nine Seconds — GO!
Nine seconds is all you get to fascinate a person enough to get their attention. Our attention span used to be 20 minutes but the Internet has had a slight impact, it’s now down to 9 seconds. Sally...
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Mayonnaise Jar and the Big Rocks of Life
As the Holidays approach it’s a good time to remember that the small stuff is just the small stuff and it’s easy to fill our life with small stuff because it’s ubiquitous and there is so damn much of...
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Are you Solid to the Core?
Is your organization grounded on a solid foundation with an articulated Core Ideology: Core Values and Core Purpose? Core values are those essential guiding tenets that define the enduring character...
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Harry Rules in 2012 – Who the Heck is Harry Anyway?
In nearly thirty years practicing law and sharing countless books with clients, friends and business owners, I have seen more impact and received more positive feedback from a book that has nothing to...
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Who is Your Who?
WHO – “Who” is the core customer of the enterprise. This defines the potential customers most likely to buy the product or service in the quantity required for optimal profit. Is your juice box...
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Act of Valor
Retired Major General Rick Erlandson, recently spoke at Olsen Thielen CPAs. The General was the Commander of the 34th Infantry Division, of the Minnesota Army National Guard when these famed Red Bulls...
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Think Time
Think Time – The greatest gift you can give yourself is time to think and ponder. Bill Gates is famous for his Think Week where he takes his pile of books and takes time to step back and think. We...
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How Are Your Partnerships: Power of 2
Power of 2 – “Those who collaborate achieve the mission. Those who go it alone are likely to fail. This basic principle is too often forgotten. Power of 2 is required reading for anyone, in any kind...
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Are you using WWW to its full potential?
No, not the world wide web. Rather: Who is going to do What by When? This may be the single most powerful question you can ask if your business is to break through to the success you have hoped for...
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Are You Living Your Calling?
Are you one of the lucky few who are living your calling, or are you committed to a career or just working a job? Chip Conley, in his books Peak and Emotional Equations: Simple Truths About Creating...
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1+1+1=19 Nickels in the Niches
1+1+1 Really Can Equal 19, Maybe Even More!!! This is not fuzzy math. If you increase sales just 1%, decrease cost of goods sold by just 1% and decrease sales, general and administrative expenses just...
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Seconds Add Up to Hours
Seconds Add Up to Hours — Lessons from a Third Grade School Teacher. We all have heard of LEAN Manufacturing and it’s detailed system analysis. Some do it better than others but my experience is the...
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