Most start-up business owners start their business by thinking about the product or service they are offering. They fail to answer the most important question that every business owner mustanswer: Why should I, the customer, choose your product or use your service...
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The Importance of Accurate Financials
Watch this video to learn why accurate financials are crucial to increasing your business profits. C’mon over to the Small Business Profit Maximizer Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BusinessProfitMaximizer/ where I am sharing business profit...
Using Auto-Responders to Upsell
Auto-responders are computer programs that automatically send out information to those prospects and customers on your email list. I use Constant Contact but MailChimp is another great program that I recommend. The auto-responder allows us to automatically send our...
Good accounting won’t make your business, but poor accounting can break it!
Accurate and timely accounting reports are vital to the success of a business. An accounting system should allow the business owner to see which customers or products are most profitable for their business. Which customers are overdue, what bills need to be...
Creating a Monthly Marketing and Sales Implementation System
As Dan Kennedy says: The number one thing successful companies do is that they implement their ideas! To implement means to put a decision, plan, strategy, etc. into effect. That means there is action tied to a strategic purpose, and there is something done. Not being...
Review Your Business to Prevent Losses
If you don’t have financial controls in place, it’s not a question of whether people will steal from you, but when. The best way to ensure that your company won’t suffer from property orfinancial loss is to be savvy. As the old adage says, an ounce of prevention is...
10 Secrets to Massive Increases in Sales & Profits
For 35+ years I have worked with thousands of small businesses in just about every industry possible. This has allowed me to learn what the most profitable business owners do in order to be successful. From this I have developed a list of 10 things that they all seem...
The Perfect Monthly Growth Tool
The secret to growing the business of your dreams is consistent monthly improvement. I ask my consulting clients to schedule four hours per week to work on improving their business, rather than working on the daily grind of selling and delivering their product....
The importance of weekly delegation meetings
Two of the biggest problems that employers have with managing employees are 1) reviewing employees’ work and coaching them toward performing at the desired level, and 2) keeping track of what you have delegated to them and having them work on what needs to be worked...
Identifying Managerial Talent
As your business grows, you will need to hire managers to supervise parts of your business.Often the best choice is to hire from within the organization. You already know the employee and they are familiar with the company, its employees, and its customers. So how do...