By Daniel M. Murphy on 12/24/2009

My Christmas wish for every small business owner: Stop thinking and acting like a Chief 'Everything' Officer.  You should not try to be all things to your business nor do all things in your business.  Stop the insanity!  That is a sure recipe for exhaustion and burn out. 

As your virtual business coach, I wish for you to start thinking like a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and stop thinking like the typical small business owner.  We at The Growth Coach hope that Santa brings you a greater vision...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 12/17/2009

The Growth Coach has worked with tens of thousands of small business owners over the years to help them gain more freedom, fortune, fulfillment and fun.  We have a proven coaching process to do the same for you.  Put simply, we would help you to re-design your existing company to be more distinct from you and quite candidly, work in your absence.  After all, your goal should be to create a separate cash flow entity, a real business, not merely a job for yourself.  In the end, your business should...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 12/10/2009

Back by popular demand, this Growth Coach business coaching blog will focus on some of our recent Twitter messages (Tweets) from http://twitter.com/GrowthCoachCorp.  As your virtual business coach, I felt these 33 tweets could challenge, motivate, educate and benefit business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals.

I did not include any Growth Coach Tweets that had links or references to other resources...just pure text content from me, your personal...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 12/3/2009

The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise system, serves several thousand small business clients each and every year.  Before we coach these companies, many of them have an existing flaw in their business model...very limited or no leverage.  What's leverage? It's about getting the greatest results with the least amount of effort, especially YOUR effort. It's about working smarter, not just harder. It's about multiplying your results.  Do you have leverage in your business or...

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