23 Dec 2010

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For this Growth Coach Blog and the next two, I decided to leverage some of my business coaching tips and small business advice I’ve posted on Twitter the past 12 months. Twitter is a highly popular micro-blog site where your messages need to brief and to the point.  I reviewed hundreds and hundreds of my Twitter messages (Tweets) from our Twitter page at twitter.com/GrowthCoachCorp and ...
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16 Dec 2010

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This brief blog will focus on a few of the exciting things happening with The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise system.  However, as a business owner or professional, there are relevant and valuable insights and lessons to be learned and adopted to your business by reading these interviews and watching the video.  As we always say at The Growth Coach, for your bu...
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09 Dec 2010

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As a business owner, are you always doing the entrepreneurial time warp? You know, repeatedly jumping back and forth between your past and future, seldom operating in the present. Probably so.  As a CPA and professional business coach for over 25 years, I have witnessed up close how small business owners are fascinated with time travel, frequently visiting their PAST and their FUTURE, b...
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02 Dec 2010

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At The Growth Coach, a North American business coaching franchise system, we come face-to-face with tens of thousands of small business clients, prospects, referral sources, and alliance partners each and every year. Over the last few years, especially in The United States, we have seen that the tough economy and slow recovery have taken a financial, emotional and mental toll on many ent...
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25 Nov 2010

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This Growth Coach Blog is focused on the importance of giving thanks.  Pretty fitting given that today is Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays because it's simple, pure, honest, 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 ...
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18 Nov 2010

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When beginning a business, always start with the end in mind.  Eventually, you will one day want to sell your business ... that's how substantial wealth is created. Also, there is usually a time when the original founder needs to step aside and let the business evolve and grow to a much higher level.  Therefore, even if you have owned a business for years, you should gradually be getting...
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11 Nov 2010

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The Power of Questions for a Business Owner
Hopefully, the following five hypothetical business coaching questions get you out of your ordinary mental framework and help you to see your business, opportunities, and threats from a different angle. If you had to start your business over from scratch, knowing what you know now, what would you change and what would you keep? If someone were to analyze buying your business today, wh...
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04 Nov 2010

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This Growth Coach Blog focuses on the all-too-common feeling that stops most business owners and entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.  The emotion that prevents most professionals from seizing greater success and personal fulfillment.  The mental state that derails most small business owners from making necessary changes.  What's the prevalent feeling, emotion and mental state that often ...
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28 Oct 2010

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The Growth Coach Franchise System had its Annual National Conference in Las Vegas in mid-October.  The weather was spectacular and our franchise owners were enthusiastic to learn best practices from each other, to bond, and to gain additional strategies to serve more clients, touch more lives, and make more money.  Based on the outstanding evaluations, our mission was accomplished! This...
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21 Oct 2010

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Growth Coach Helps Business Owners Get Maximum Value for Their Time
As a business owner, do you still have a hard time letting go of all the clutter (low-value, low-priority tasks) that surrounds your work day? A hard time letting go of the "trivial many" tasks?  Are you still trying to be competent at every role and task in the company?  Still wearing too many hats and juggling too many balls? Well, here is a simple Growth Coach exercise that will help ...
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