Fire the CEO (26 Jun 2006) If you are the boss and you think your job is to run the business, you are dead wrong. Your job, the most important job in any business, is to market the business. Peter Drucker, way back in 1956, sa...
Firing Underperforming Employees in Your Small Business (26 Jun 2006) Here are a few tips on how to hand out pink slips when it comes time to terminate an employee. As a small business owner with employees, you will likely find it necessary one day to terminate an unde...
Fitness Franchise Business Opportunity (26 Jun 2006) What many women see as just a great way to achieve some quick weight loss, others see as a business opportunity. Despite the incredible growth of these hydraulic gyms, there seems to be no shortage of customers.
Five Facts and One Motivating Factor Behind a Successful Home Business (26 Jun 2006) If home business requires patience, persistence, hard, regular work, skills and techniques that will have to be learnt online.. what is so differenct about it? What will ultimately keep one motivated....
Five Quick Ways to Speed Up Cash Flow (26 Jun 2006) There are a number of simple ways that you can reduce your dependence on your company's line of credit and increase the cash that you need. Here are five no-cost methods to try.
Five Tips & Five Steps --- To Sell or Not To Sell My Business (26 Jun 2006) You've thought seriously about selling your business but you really don't know where to start. You have heard some horror stories about different selling processes, paying an upfront fee and settling for less than what you really wanted but people get so far into the process that they can't turn back. You're not really big enough to hire one of the Wall Street investment bankers and you don't know any reputable mergers and acquisition firms.
Five Tips for First Time Entrepreneurs (26 Jun 2006) It seems so long ago that I started my first business. Since that time, I've created several successful businesses and learned a lot of lessons along the way. There are several things I wish I would have known in the early days of my entrepreneurial efforts that I hope will help some other first time entrepreneurs on their path to success.
Fleet Washing Expansion Considerations (26 Jun 2006) Many times small businesses want to expand their businesses and are not sure when the best time to do that might be. The key of course is cash flow. Will your current and brand new accounts afford you the cash flow to expand? Let us run thru a scenario with you.
Focus on Your Personal Productivity Strength to Prosper Your Business (26 Jun 2006) For small-business owners it is important to concentrate on personal strengths. Small business management is about organizing economic activities and your personal economic background defines the fundament for your business.
Forming a Corporation – Investors (26 Jun 2006) You've come up with the best idea since sliced bread, figured out a business name and formed a corporation. There is, however, one small problem. You need money. Welcome to the world of investing.
Four Obstacles to Fame and Fortune (26 Jun 2006) Learn some of the obstacles that stop business owners from reaching their Biggest Vision.
Four Reasons Why Small Businesses Succeed (or Fail) (26 Jun 2006) The four key factors found in successful businesses are presented and discussed. Detailed components are presented for executive motivation, a working business plan, organizational structure and motivation and operational support systems.
Franchise Buyers from Hell (26 Jun 2006) I ran a franchise company for many years, a car wash franchise, and we use to get the most ridiculous franchise buyers who thought they wanted a franchise.
Franchise Buyers Lying On Forms (26 Jun 2006) The Federal Trade Commission which governs the franchise industry thru the franchise rule, which enforces Franchise Disclosure laws seems to think that consumers need to be protected even when they lie.
