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What is Your AI Strategy for Your Business?
For most small business owners, the answer is a big fat zero. This is a problem that you can’t avoid and will absolutely wreck your company if you don’t get…
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If there is a Quarterback on the Team, Who is the Captain of the Defense
If there is a Quarterback on the Team, Who is the Captain of the Defense?!? How Business Owners need to ‘draft’ the right players to run both sides of the…
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Hey Business Owner: Sales is more than you think it is…
I speak frequently to groups of business owners and professional service providers for businesses. There is a disease, a crippling sort of disease, that has spread throughout to a large…
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Are you Building a Business or an Oil Well?
I was blown away sitting in the audience at a conference listening to a panel made up of a private equity expert, investment banker and one of the most senior…
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Business Owner Perspective on Talent: Expense or Investment?!?
How you look at your payroll reveals a tremendous amount about you and your company. I work with quite a few business owners in my coaching/consulting business and lately it's…
How Can I Afford to Fly Fish During The Work Week?!?
For business owners that have some kind of grasp on reality (you can’t guarantee you will be here tomorrow), it is so absolutely critical that the personal plan for what…
How to Lower Risk When Looking to Sell Your Business
Today I am focused on one way to lower risk when selling your business and it might be one you haven’t thought of. Every week I am talking to business…
How to compete with the ‘Big Boyz’ as an Exit Planning Advisor
This one is going to be fun to write for me. I am not one of the members of the ‘Big Boyz’ Club and many of you won’t be either.…
How To Grow Your Business and Fly Fish During the Work Week
I can imagine two distinct reactions to this week's newsletter title: How the heck can I possibly do that?!? How can I do it right now?!? Context: I fly fish,…
There is a New Quarterback on the Team: Why Financial Advisors Are Now The Most Trusted Advisors for Business Owners
The traditional ‘quarterback’ for a business owner planning their eventual exit of their business was traditionally the CPA. No longer. The 2023 National State of Owner Readiness Report, published by…