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How Much Should a Business Make?

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 24, 2008

How much a business should be making is not an easy question to answer, although all too many answer it without a lot of thought. Too often those who put…

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Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Filed under Economy on December 20, 2008

Maybe it’s the Christmas season, but I’m beginning to have visions of recovery ahead. My internal plan is that life will be much brighter this summer. Many experts say that…

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My Very Best Customer Service Experience

Filed under Marketing, Sales/Selling, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 4, 2008

It was on Good Friday. My wife informed me that we were not going to be eating meat, but she wanted to stop in and get some fast food while…

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Strategic Planning in a Small Business

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2008

The strategic plan is a vision and roadmap to future success only to the extent that it is: Founded upon a rational vision. Impediments to the goal are anticipated and…

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Executing Business Plans

Filed under Business Management, Business Plans, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2008

If there’s one thing worse than not having a strategy, it’s having a strategy with no implementation plan. It’s all in the execution. no matter how much research goes into…

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Selecting Tasks to Delegate

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2008

Deciding what task and decision making you should let go of and pass on to others may be the easiest part of the process. You have more than likely already…

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Business Process

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2008

Defining the process for every day decision making and tasks is both difficult and essential to successful delegation. Thinking through how you go about doing something is not as easy…

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The Delegation Dilemma

Filed under Business Management, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 3, 2008

One of the most common difficulties facing small business managers is dealing with the concept of delegation. Delegation is a vital element in ensuring the efficient use of scarce resources….

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Outsourcing in a Small Business Environment

Filed under Small Business on December 3, 2008

The question of what to do with the decision making and tasks that you have identified should be far more straight forward and quantifiable than the series of things you’ve…

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The Business Plan

Filed under Business Management, Business Plans, Small Business, Venture Capital and Start Ups on December 2, 2008

A Business Plan is an essential element of running any business. Your firm can be a billion dollar multi-national or you and your dog working out of the garage, you…

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Plan, Do, Check, Act

Filed under Business Management, Business Plans, Small Business on December 1, 2008

Plan, Do, Check, Act is a very simple method of keeping yourself grounded to reality. We all do things for a reason. When we do something we expect a certain…

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The Role of the Press in a Recession

Filed under Economy on November 30, 2008

Over eager shoppers at a Long Island Wal-Mart trampled and killed a Wal-Mart greeter on Black Friday. This event is a tragedy on its own, but was made even worse…

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Big Business Looks a Lot Like Big Government

Filed under Business Management, Economy on November 10, 2008

The business community has long claimed that private enterprise was inherently more efficient in providing goods and services than the government. The premise being that government was prone to bureaucratic…

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