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How To Fire Employees

Knowing when to fire someone is a necessary skill for any business owner. I became very good at firing employees because when I acquired one of my businesses it had 200% turnover. One of the things I realized very early in my entrepreneurial career is ... Read >

Outsourcing Correctly

If you are looking to make your business an asset, delegation and outsourcing is one of the most crucial pieces that you get to master as you come through your business creation career. Delegation and outsourcing is something that, if you are not good at ... Read >

Creating Professional Development In Your Business

Are you ready to take your company’s operation systems to a completely new level? Then begin by creating more than just a job for your employees. What most small businesses do not realize – I know I was caught off-guard by it – was when I had an employ... Read >

Business Debt - Making it Work For You

The simple philosophy behind debt in business is - all business debt should somehow generate revenue. This is called performing debt. In order to manage debt, recognize that if debt is not producing, great care must be taken to remove it quickly or its ex... Read >

How to Spend Money Like a Big Business

One of the biggest differences between self-employed people or Mom-and-Pop businesses and big business owners is how they each view the cost of doing business. For simplicity sake, I will refer to self-employed people or Mom-and-Pop business models as “... Read >

5 Steps for Strategic Planning

I want to share with you one of the easiest ways I have learned to strategically plan for things in general. Whether it is a three-year forecast on my business or to plan a project effectively and successfully implement it to the end, I use these 5 simple... Read >

Your Business and Compensation

Do you pay yourself or do you work for free? You may decide to work for free as you start a new business, spending time and energy without any compensation because the revenue is not there yet to support paying you a salary. This is an important consid... Read >

Self-Employed or Small Business Owner

What makes owning a business different from being self-employed? I do not believe that one is better than the other. Both have their pros and their cons. I am suggesting that if you wish to have a business that pays you, it is usually more efficient i... Read >

Create Customer Loyalty by Building Relationships

People can be fickle customers; they may go where the deal is, if their primary mode of differentiating a product or service is price. For example, when you shop for everyday items at a grocery store that does not “wow" you, you may gladly go somewhere e... Read >

3 Things an Entrepreneur Needs to Do for Customer Loyalty

People do not go into business for themselves because they seek security. Initially, there is very little security when you build your business. However, there is a way to achieve a measure of security in your entrepreneurial endeavors. It focuses on the ... Read >