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29 Sep

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Why Has Your Business Growth Stalled Despite a Bigger Team?

You hired more people to help the business move forward. Yet your day still fills with questions, competing priorities, and problems that need your attention. Payroll has increased, but progress feels much the same. A bigger team adds people. Turning...

29 Sep

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How to Delegate Decisions Without Losing Control of Your Business

You have handed over the work. Your team handles scheduling, prepares quotes, and manages customers. Yet the same question keeps interrupting your day: “Can you approve this?” When routine decisions still require your permission, delegated work can leave the business...

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Drive your Business, or it Will Drive You: 3 Ways to Be More Pro-Active than Re-Active

It’s heartbreaking to watch the once ‘action-oriented’, ‘built from scratch’ business owners who have grown their company to the point of getting so busy – they have forgotten how to be assertive and proactive. Their marketing success, and sales volume...

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The Trouble with Being the Boss AND the Board

The best thing about going into business for yourself is that you can do whatever you want. The worst thing about going into business for yourself is … you can do whatever you want. The point is, the freedom of...

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The Predictably Alarming Statistic, Which is Only Alarming in How Predictable it Is

Now, let’s say you were the gambling sort. What sort of chances/odds would you lay on the following having ‘success’? A doctor performing an operation with 0 hours experience and 0 hours of schooling or training A mechanic changing out...

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Look in the Mirror First: 4 Ways You Might be Creating the Problems You Hate

If you are the main contributor to the input, make sure you start with YOU when attempting to change the output. One of the unspoken oaths that is taken when placed in the position of ‘coach’ at any level, is...

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How to Clear $192 off a $10,000 Sale. Yikes!

It continues to shock. The sheer amount of business owners that use the ‘shoulder check’ as their primary, if not only, means of working out the pricing of their product or service. Many can’t believe their eyes when looking at...

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When Password Security Limits Account Safety & Productivity.

BY: Kevin Simpson | Senior Business Coach @ Action Edge Business Coaching Every person, working for every company, or buying from any online website has experienced it. That feeling where you scan your own memory bank, your keystrokes getting louder and...

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The Best Customer Acquisition Strategy You’re Probably Not Exploring

Are you Paying Attention to Businesses for Sale? You should be. This article is not about buying a business so you have ANOTHER business, or buying a business as an investment because it already runs under management, etc....

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When You Run Into Martin Sheen – Will You Be Ready?

Long ago when I worked for a big tech company I spent a great deal of time traveling in big city airports around North America, often with my boss, and often we ran into celebrities. My boss, who I’ll call...