Monthly Archives: December 2018

15 Dec

Business Revenue or Business Value? How About Both

If you are a small or mid-size business owner, I have a question for you?  What is more important to your business?  Is it how many dollars in service product that it sells?  Is it your Margin?  Or, is it the value of your business?  The answer should be yes. But which question(s) depends on what your long-term plans for your business are.

Depending on those plans each of those areas of focus have a different meaning.  In some instances they should mean everything; in others, they may mean little.  Regardless, all are important.  How important, again, depends on your plan for the business.

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08 Dec

Control Your Business Growth by Making it Sustainable

We have all heard the mantra, “If your business isn’t growing it’s dying.”  In today’s highly competitive business environment that is true.  Business growth is much more than sales, revenue, and profit.  While those are important so is the ability to sustain them.  In point of fact if you can’t sustain it, then it doesn’t help your business. So while aggressive growth, and I define aggressive growth as an average of anything more than 20% a year, looks exciting and appeals to your emotions, if you cannot sustain growth then you are harming your business.

How do you sustain your business growth?

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01 Dec

Employer of Choice – Just Say No!

We all see the words.  Businesses promote it as if somehow it makes them unique; “WE are an employer of choice.”  “Join us here at XYZ Company; We are an Employer of Choice.”  As if that is the only reason anyone would want to work for any company.  There are many problems with being an Employer of Choice (EOC).  To begin with, any employer can simply decide they are one.

Further, everyone seemingly is one.  There is nothing unique about being an employer of choice.  THAT is the problem; being an employer of choice does nothing for your business.

So what’s the solution?

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