12 May 2011

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This Growth Coach Blog is dedicated to helping business owners like you attract new customers with practical and low-cost marketing strategies.  The more fishing lines your company puts in the water, the better chance of catching new customers.  These are simple, easy-to-implement, off-line marketing strategies to help drive customers and revenues into your business.  While not all of th...
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05 May 2011

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Quick, how many hats are you currently wearing or juggling at your company?  You know what I mean … how many different roles/jobs are you responsible for in a given week?  Like most entrepreneurs, your answer is probably that you jump in and out of 5 or more roles in a given week … from owner/CEO, to bookkeeper, sales manager, sales person, collections specialist, shipping clerk, marketi...
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28 Apr 2011

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Dear small business owner, please stop trying to be a CEO … Chief EVERYTHING Officer … and instead, start being a Chief Executive Officer.  This single distinction of working ON your business more instead of IN your business can save you countless headaches and frustrations and make you thousands and even millions of more dollars. To be an effective business owner, you must adopt a legi...
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21 Apr 2011

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In Ohio, every year spring faithfully arrives. It brings with it rain and rising temperatures that cause the leaves and buds to sprout, the grass to grow, the flowers to bloom, the weeds to explode, my allergies to kick in high gear, and my boy’s baseball season to get underway. And best of all, we get to say goodbye to winter ... quite a harsh one in the Midwest this year. Also, the ne...
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14 Apr 2011

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Every human being, but especially overworked, overwhelmed, and overly busy entrepreneurs and small business owners, 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 to your core, and strongly encourages you to slow down and think. Twenty common wake-u...
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07 Apr 2011

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No question about it, smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, etc.) are amazing gadgets of advanced technology as well as incredibly useful and valuable tools ... IF, and I stress, IF used properly.  For example, I absolutely love my Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate Android smartphone from Verizon.  But I’m also well aware that it’s ONLY a tool and totally up to me, the user, to manage it in...
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31 Mar 2011

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Owning and running a business, done right, should give you MORE LIFE, not less. A business should be a vehicle for you to achieve more life, more fulfillment, more freedom, and more financial success.  However, for many entrepreneurs, that is not the case. Instead of thinking and acting like owners and leaders, they end up toiling like employees and technicians.  Very often they are con...
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24 Mar 2011

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Entrepreneurs and business owners, for your health and sanity and that of your employees and your business, stop bouncing around from one idea to another, one project to another, one fire-drill to another.  Instead, finish what you start and stop chasing the latest fad, newest technology or gadget.  While it's common and quite entertaining for kids and pets to chase "shiny new objects", ...
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17 Mar 2011

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Thank you James Naismith for inventing the wonderful game of basketball in 1891. It’s more popular than ever.  Because of Naismith, March Madness is once again here! The madness started last Sunday with 68 college basketball teams selected and dreaming of winning it all ... a coveted national championship. While I seldom write about sports on my Growth Coach Blog, this time is an except...
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10 Mar 2011

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What’s the GAP, why should you care, and why do you need to close it?  Great questions.  As a business owner, executive or professional, we all have a performance and satisfaction GAP … it’s the distance between where you ARE NOW (current reality) and where you truly want TO BE (ideal future). Unless you have a perfect business and personal life … and few if any do … then you most defin...
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