Business Owner Resources

By Daniel M. Murphy on 11/26/2009

This Growth Coach business coaching blog will be short and sweet. It will focus on today, Thanksgiving.  This is one of my favorite holidays...it's simple, pure, and all about loved ones and giving thanks.  As your virtual business coach, I wish you and your family a very relaxing and blessed Thanksgiving...and may you truly recognize and count your many blessings.  This Growth Coach blog will help you to slow down, reflect, and appreciate all the wonderful people and simple pleasures you have in...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 11/19/2009

Growth Coach continues to receive very positive feedback on these recent Twitter-oriented blogs.  Just like the prior Growth Coach business coaching blogs, this one will feature 34 of our Twitter messages (Tweets) from http://twitter.com/GrowthCoachCorp.  In all, we shared 100 tweets over the last 3 weeks...this being the final installment.  I selected Growth Coach Tweets (pure text content, no attachments) that I felt could challenge, motivate, educate and benefit business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals. 

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 11/12/2009

Just like the prior Growth Coach business coaching blog, this one will feature 33 of our Twitter messages (Tweets) from http://twitter.com/GrowthCoachCorp.  I selected Tweets (pure text content, no attachments) that I felt could challenge, motivate, educate and benefit business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals.  Again, since a given Tweet can only be 140 characters long, I used quite a few abbreviations as you will see...most are very intuitive. ...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 11/5/2009

For this Growth Coach business coaching blog, I wanted to try something a little different.  I went through several month's worth of my Twitter messages (Tweets) from http://twitter.com/GrowthCoachCorp and selected 99 of them (divided into 3 parts) that I felt could challenge, motivate, educate and benefit business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals.

I did not include any Growth Coach Tweets that had links to other resources or referenced...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 10/29/2009

Business owners, for your sake and that of your company's, please stop bouncing around from one idea to another, one project to another, one fire-drill to another.  While it's common and entertaining for kids and pets to chase "shiny new objects", it can be disastrous for business owners to do the same. 

By jumping around like a hyperactive dog chasing anything that moves or looks new, you end up driving yourself and your employees crazy.  If you are always chasing shiny objects or leaping...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 10/22/2009

I was just interviewed by BusinessWeek to provide some business coaching advice to their small business readers on how to identify and overcome some of the emotional challenges brought on by the recent recession and its lingering effects.  Bottom line, the reporter wanted to know how entrepreneurs could protect their passion, vision, and confidence during challenging times.  What a great topic!  I was more than happy to share my coaching experiences on this critically important topic and anticipate...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 10/15/2009

I just got back home from Chicago after spending several days at The Growth Coach National Conference.  It was our largest and best to date and I thank our franchise owners, vendors and guest speakers for making it so informative, upbeat, inspiring and valuable for all the attendees.  As the founder of this business coaching franchise system, I'm very proud of our business coaches for so enthusiastically and effectively carrying out our mission to improve North America one community at a time by helping the small business owners in those communities achieve greater success and balance in their lives.  

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 10/8/2009

Business owner, as your virtual business coach, I formally give you permission to stop doing tasks you dislike doing... and probably stink at doing.  Most people wouldn't think this was necessary but both of us know better.  Entrepreneurs around the world are caught in a vicious, habitual cycle of doing tasks and roles they dislike and that annoy them, frustrate them, and drain them. 

Instead of focusing on their strengths and unique talents (which they do well and which energizes them), most...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 10/1/2009

When people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm blessed to oversee a North American business coaching franchise system that helps thousands of small business owners and professionals every year achieve greater success and balance in their lives. Invariably, if they are a business owner, executive or professional, they ask me, "Who can benefit from business coaching and how does it work?"

Based on my seventeen years of business coaching experience, and without any reservation whatsoever, I tell...

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By Daniel M. Murphy on 9/24/2009

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt.  As a business owner, do you ever feel like a prisoner to your business?  A prisoner to your employees and customers?  Do you sometimes feel like you work a demanding job instead of owning a thriving business?  If so, you are not alone.

As your virtual business coach, allow me to ask you some additional tough but revealing questions.  As a business owner, could you leave your business today for...

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