How are you making it easier and faster for prospects to start doing business with you and for your clients and customers to do more business with you? I’m trying to connect with someone so that I can hire them and pay them. We’re juggling potential meeting dates. Since electrons travel at the speed of … Continue reading The Speed of Building Business Relationships
Category: Business Growth
Use the Web to Accelerate Business Growth
I tried to pay my insurance bill through my online banking today. But my bank’s system could not find my insurance company as a payee, even though they are the largest insurance broker in the province. That’s frustrating. If the banks want us to use online banking instead of visiting tellers, then they should make … Continue reading Use the Web to Accelerate Business Growth
Business Growth Lessons from Street Hockey
When we were kids playing a pickup game of street hockey, we always kept score. The score was important because the game could end suddenly if Ranger, my friend’s poodle, suddenly decided to steal the ball (summer) or puck (winter), and we needed to know who won when that happened. (The worst game endings were … Continue reading Business Growth Lessons from Street Hockey
The Yo-Yo Economy
The price of oil bounced up 10% in one day. The Canadian dollar is up about one-third of a cent because of the oil price increase. Essentially, the Canadian dollar is a resource currency. Canada’s economy would be stronger if we were a value-added economy instead of a resource based economy. We’ve got great talent … Continue reading The Yo-Yo Economy
Three Key Factors To Business Growth
In over two decades of advising privately-held, high growth businesses, the three key factors that have been most powerful in accelerating revenues and profits and achieving business growth are: Strategy – a clear focus on how you provide value and create results for your ideal client or customer. Management team – people who can hire, … Continue reading Three Key Factors To Business Growth
Why should I hire you? How quantifying value and results can grow your business.
When I was car shopping recently, the manufacturers and dealers were more than happy to flood me with detailed specifications about power and performance. Zero to sixty, 4.6 seconds. 400 horsepower. All wheel drive. There were fancy videos with powerful engines growling, tires howling, and even birds chirping when the environmentally friendly engine shut itself … Continue reading Why should I hire you? How quantifying value and results can grow your business.
Inc.: Million Dollar Advice for Outstanding Leaders on How To Grow Your Business
Do you want some power leadership tips to help you grow your business? Here is an article with advice for business leaders in small business, mid-market and Fortune 500 companies, by my friend and fellow consultant, Val Wright, who writes for Inc. magazine. We are presenting at Alan Weiss’s Million Dollar Consulting Convention in Atlanta … Continue reading Inc.: Million Dollar Advice for Outstanding Leaders on How To Grow Your Business
What's the one number that can run your business?
Measuring and sharing one number can help your team to focus and dramatically improve performance.
Chad Barr Interviews Phil Symchych
What are the top issues facing business owners today?
What's Your Growth Potential? Are you red-lining it?
How do you know your growth shouldn’t be 30% or more?
