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A New Question

The next time you meet with a fellow entrepreneur and discuss your businesses, ask him/her this question: How profitable is your business? For some reason that question never gets asked,...

The 8 Worst Pieces Of Advice Business Owners Receive About Money

I know that advice is free and plentiful, but not all of it’s worth taking.  Particularly when it comes to finances, it’s best to take advice from people who’ve successfully...

The Key To Persuading Others

It’s about passion. It is having a love for what you do. It is about giving a shit. I met a woman who is a dolphin trainer. She couldn’t stop...

How to Have a Great Place to Work

Do you have a great place for people to work? If you hesitate about answering that question, it may be time to give it some thought. Having a high turnover...

Get Your Slow Employees Working Faster

Productivity, as any entrepreneur can attest to, is one of the, if not the most, important issues that a company has to deal with. Productivity gets things done, and when...

The Secret To Packing A Room For A Speaking Event

The only thing worse than a fear of public speaking is a fear of no one showing up to hear you speak! So when I was asked if I could...

5 Easy Ways To "Go Green" In Your Business

You have probably heard it before, even if you have tried to turn a deaf ear. We are sucking up resources faster than the world can keep pace. Everything from...

The Magic Metric For Entrepreneurs: Operating Cash Ratio

Metrics are a powerful tool for measuring progress, evaluating decisions, and when done right, are an early warning system for problems. There is one problem though. . . too many...

The 4 Unexpected Ways Leaders Spark Innovation

What do Abraham Lincoln, King Arthur and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? No, this is not the start to a bad joke. These famed leaders are known for their ability...

Deliver A Killer Speech With These 7 Techniques

William Shakespeare told us that “brevity is the soul of wit.”  The always colorful Dorothy Parker adapted Shakespeare’s aphorism and taught us that “brevity is the soul of lingerie.”  My...

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