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You know how sometimes a particular issue seems to be driven home in everything you read and experience for a while? Well, that’s exactly what’s happening to me lately around succession planning. So, it seems reasonable that we should talk about it here for a bit. The moral of the story is this: you must do succession planning. Help your business plan to last beyond you and your leadership, so it can thrive for many generations.
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A great way to use business consulting services to grow your business is to engage the consultant to train and empower your employees. This will leave the intellectual property within your employees once the business consultant is long gone. Also, within a growing business, a relationship with a business consultant helps you launch to the next level.
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This is the age old accounting question asked by business owners when reviewing their small business financials. I Goggled this question, and it’s everywhere. We are all trying to answer it. But, from my experience, we aren’t getting to the answer entrepreneurs want. Let’s go through the process.
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Last week I was interviewed by the Portland Home Builders Association newspaper to discuss the best sales and marketing strategies for 2012, along with goal setting for business growth. This information is valuable to everyone, so I thought it would be beneficial to share it through our blog as well.
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Many new business owners hold a common assumption about management consultant services – namely that they’re only for huge, well-established organizations. In reality, business management consulting can improve performance at companies of all sizes. Consultants provide high-caliber advice and information on a variety of topics, empowering businesses to run more effectively.
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When first starting out, most new business owners handle their own accounting and bookkeeping. Services such as bookkeeping for small business often seem too expensive to new business owners. Plus, many start-up warriors want to do their own books initially – often as a way to get a good grip on income and expenses.
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 Lack of liquid assets is a common cause of failure among small businesses. With no cash on hand, businesses can’t pay for the medium- and long-term investments that come due now and then. Even worse, poor business financial management can render firms incapable of paying their regular obligations, such as vendor services and employee payroll. Such a business financial planning fiasco can easily close a company’s doors.
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We are excited to announce that we are offering our Business Essentials for Business Owners class in January! We have offered this class in the past and participants rave about it.
In this class we will share with you real management and organization information so you can learn how to get your business running at its optimal level.
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 You can’t play baseball without a bat, and calculus is nearly impossible without a scientific calculator –or, at the very least, a slide rule. These are only two of many human endeavors that require the use of specialized tools. As any marketing strategy consultant could tell you, effective marketing also demands the use of a certain set of tools.
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If you’re like most business owners, you went into business to follow your passion. Yet as every management consultant can confirm, you can’t just focus on your passion if you want to succeed in business. From human resources to accounting, there are plenty of “must-do” tasks that distract the average business leader from the reason he or she went into business in the first place. Fortunately, small business management consulting offers a solution: outsourcing operations.
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