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What Am I Doing Right?

Right now, pick up the phone, call your best client and after the appropriate niceties ask them this question: “What am I doing right?” They will surely share some details....

Build Raving Fans in 7 Ways

Marketing is about connecting with consumers. Great marketing, though, is about transforming those consumers into fans, raving fans – people who feel loyalty, and feel invested in your business and...

The 9 Ways to Grow Profits in Landscape and Lawn Care Businesses

Profit in your landscape or lawn care business is critical to your success.  Planning for it is the key, but so many just wing it.  If you want to take...

Great Business Lessons From 8 Military Leaders

The very first business book I ever read wasn’t written by Dale Carnegie or Donald Trump. It was Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Odd choice? Not really, if you...

Better Questions Bring Better Solutions

As entrepreneurs, we ask ourselves questions all the time – how we can get more customers, how we can get more money, or even... how we can get more expenses...

Sticky Note Your Way To Mastery

Step 1 - Take 10 sticky notes and write one of the ten most important things your company does on each individual note. Step 2 - Now stick each one...

Defy Gravity

Maybe its the gravity of an industry. Or that relentless march of the same-ol’ same-ol’ at a corporation. It plays out in business after business, time after time. The ways...

The First In The Territory

The first business in a new territory gains the respect. A great example of this theory, was proven with the emergence of the company Uber. Uber became the first in...

10 Strategies to Grow Profits in Yoga and Pilates Studios

Profit in your Yoga or Pilates studio is critical to your success. It takes more than setting up a brick and mortar studio to stay in business and be profitable....

Why Is “Doing Different” So Scary?

Different is scary for most people. That alien fish larvae looking mush that was just plopped on your plate is awfully unappealing. You've never had it.  And if all things...

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