How to Identify The Core Character of Your Business
Let's continue our talk about how to develop a really great team. In our previous two videos, we talked about how important it is that YOU are the right person and that you have the prerequisites to good leadership and good management.
Back to the Beginning: Why Leadership and Management Start With YOU
In just about every business, people are the best resource, and often the most difficult. We're going to take a look at how to develop a really great team, starting with the basics. The most fundamental thing to creating a really great team is YOU.
What Can I Use as a Tax Deduction for My Business?
Steve is frequently asked: "Can you provide a list of tax deductions for my business?" Go beyond those "lists" and think about those expenses that might be unique to your business.
What Makes a Good Manager?
Do you define a manager only by the tasks for which they are responsible? Steve explains that HOW a great manager accomplishes tasks with their team is far more important than the tasks themselves. A good manager employs servant leadership to encourage and orchestrate the tasks completed by the team.
Mentoring Helps Ensure Success of Succession Planning
Many times, succession planning involves selling to an employee group or family member. Because this often means seller financing, it's important to develop your management team so that they can take over even before you step aside to ensure the long term success of the business.
Anticipate your Business Strategy with a Buy Sell Agreement
100 percent of businesses end at some point. If you have one or more business partners, start the relationship with a business prenuptial - a buy-sell agreement - as part of your exit strategy for your business. Steve hits some of the important aspects of a buy-sell agreement as a good business strategy.
Apply the 80-20 Rule to Maximize Results in Your Business
Running lean - and using your business resources wisely - ensures productivity, profitability and longevity.
Beating Frustration in Your Small Business
Last time I told you about the 80/20 principle and recommended you read The 80/20 Principle. Take a minute to review that post on Pareto's Law.
Pareto's Law - more time, more profits, less headaches!
Want to change your life? I did when I "met" Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Actually he passed away in 1923 but I was introduced…
Cost-Effective Ways to Hire New Employees
There are some small signs of the recession residing a bit. NOT big signs, but for some of you, you may want to hire a few additional…
Required Reading for Small Business Owners
We all know our world is changing rapidly (who can believe that in 2003, YouTube did not exist? Nor did Facebook or iPhones or geolocation).
Don't Reinvent the Marketing Wheel!
Marketing is a science. Yes there is some nuanced art in it, but it is a science with measurable results nonetheless.
Small Business: 10 Keys to Real Profits in Slow Markets
I've relayed a lot of information to you about small business issues: marketing, branding, legalities, human resources and management.
Affiliate Marketing for Small Businesses
I've recently had some questions about affiliate marketing and for good reason. Affiliate marketing is spreading like wildfire across the Internet.
Video Marketing: Where Should My Videos Be?
Video marketing is one of the key things I've been encouraging you to try. Nothing gives your potential customer a better understanding…
Craiglist "Help Wanted" Ads for Small Business
It is certainly an employers world right now with unemployment at 10%. But that doesn't mean you…
It is STILL About Your USP!
Brand this. Brand that. Personal branding. Brand development. Brand research. Brand awareness. YOUR small business isn't Apple…
Who's Your Banker?
Watching the banking industry over the last 20 years is a bit like watching Pac-Man. One big bank eats another bank and is then eaten by a larger bank.
Lifestyle Design: Do You Know What You Want?
Lifestyle design is a new catch-all term for building a life and business/career, free from traditional constraints…
Telecommuting: Is it Feasible for Your Business?
Telecommuting makes good business sense in many ways, including for small businesses.