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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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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