Business Owner Resources

By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/30/2009

Every year spring faithfully arrives.  It brings with it rain and rising temperatures, spring training for professional baseball, NCAA basketball March madness, and kids getting off of school.  And best of all, we get to say goodbye to winter. 

Also, the new season brings with it talk about spring cleaning.  I never really understood that concept.  This year, however, I think that's exactly what I did.  It was more spring sorting than cleaning.  I'm not sure why, but I got inspiration to finally...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/26/2009

Given the challenging economy, now is not the time for business owners to be super heroes or lone rangers.  Now is not the time to be isolated, alone, and pretending to have all the answers.  It's OK, end the superman or superwoman charade.  This is your virtual business coach here and you can relax and be yourself.  You don't need to put up a false front for me or anyone else.  In fact, please put away your super hero cape and tights, stop speeding around like a bullet, and stop trying to leap tall...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/23/2009

This business coaching blog is dedicated to the topic of leading, coaching, and communicating.  My boy's basketball coach provides a very relevant lesson for all business owners.  He is a good man, the boys love playing for him, and he commits lots of his time and energy to coaching 10-year old boys.  Need I say more?  Also, he makes practice fun and competitive and he demands the boys to play up to their potential. 

At times, however, he gets frustrated during games when the boys can't seem...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/19/2009

Every human being, especially overworked, overwhelmed, and overly busy entrepreneurs, will receive numerous wake-up calls over their lifetime.  What's a wake-up call?  It's that very personal, shocking, upsetting, and significant event that grabs your attention, shakes you up, and strongly encourages you to slow down and think.  It's too significant to be brushed off, ignored or easily forgotten.  It demands that you stop taking people and your situation for granted and stop sleep-walking through...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/16/2009

As a business coach, I have always helped entrepreneurs to stop dwelling on the past, stop obsessing about problems, and start focusing on solutions.  This current recession should be no different.  For all of us, it's time to get beyond the whining, complaining, excuses, negativity, and worrying.  We need to turn off the negative news and turn on our creative business minds.  We already know all about the negatives of this recession...but what about the positives?  That's right, we need to start...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/12/2009

At every training class of new Growth Coach franchisees, I get the privilege and pleasure of talking to them on day one...as they begin their exciting and fulfilling journey into business ownership.  At The Growth Coach, we attract very passionate, talented and committed business professionals who want to become business coaches and make a difference in their communities.  As such, I'm very proud of them as owners and I'm very excited about the countless number of small business owners they will help...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/9/2009

During tough economic times, owners tend to panic and instinctively try to work even harder.  They get busy being busy.  They try to do more.  Run faster.  Carry more of the burden.  Give more of themselves.  Be warned...if this is you, you will become overworked, overwhelmed, exhausted, possibly sick, and a prisoner to your business.   Fight the urge to get crazy busy and do more, more, more. 

In fact, during these challenging times, it's imperative for business owners to slow down and be...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/5/2009

This Growth Coach business coaching blog is dedicated to helping your customers get even more value from your company...to buy more and more often from you.  To be successful at getting your current customers to spend more money with your company and more often, you must increase the value of what you offer and educate them on such value.  After all, you want them to have an optimal buying experience and level of satisfaction with your company.  To do so, you must communicate with and continually...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 3/2/2009

In our last Growth Coach business coaching blog, we discussed having the courage to go for growth despite the challenging economy.  While you should conserve cash in your company anyway you possibly can right now, you should not scale back effective and profitable marketing.  As long as your average profit-per-sale is higher than your average cost-per-sale, keep your marketing machine cranked up.  Effective marketing pays for itself! 

Speaking of marketing, there are really only 5 strategies...

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