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What’s the REAL reason you started your business?

What’s the REAL reason you started your business? Some may look at small business owners and just see capitalists or a renegades who don’t want to work for someone else. But when you come to know small business owners (SBOs)

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Stop Putting a Dress on the Pig

Stop Putting a Dress on the Pig There’s kind of a catch-22 when small business owners (SBOs) are put through the conventional business development processes. Do you know what it is? Or, at least what is one of the biggest

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Business Alchemy – 10 Steps to Create Golden Value for Your Customers

Business Alchemy – 10 Steps to Create Golden Value for Your Customers So, this is a HUGE topic and could very well be an entire book, not just a blog. So be forewarned that I am going to give you

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What to Do When You Fall on Your Face

What to Do When You Fall on Your Face What do you do when faced with a challenge? From my experience as a business coach, I know that most of us have been programmed to figure out the “why” something

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Are You Great at Recruiting the WRONG People?

Are You Great at Recruiting the WRONG People? Hearing it said that you are the sum of the five people you associate with most is so common that it often just provokes a nod and droll, “Yeah, I know.” But

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How to Put Out an APB on Your Habits

How to Put Out an APB on Your Habits If you have been keeping up with me you have probably been seeing some of my writings about habits. I recently read Charles DuHigg’s book called (appropriately) HABIT Why We Do

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You Can Make Arrangements For Profit

You Can Make Arrangements For Profit A lot of times in the small business owner’s (SBO) world there is confusion. And I think part of it stems from the language we use, or try to use. It’s all very innocent

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Be Brave! Disrupt Your Business

Be Brave! Disrupt Your Business Disruption is one of the new buzzwords being beaten to death in media and business discourse. And that bothers me. It doesn’t bother me because I’m tired of hearing it already – quite the opposite.

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Path to Success: Study and Apply What You Learn

Path to Success: Study and Apply What You Learn If you know anything about me, you know I’m passionate about the power of continuous learning. It is the most important thing you can do to accelerate your path to success.

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4 Steps to Productive Pauses

4 Steps to Productive Pauses Busy-ness is the standard operating procedure for SBOs (small business owners). Get it done. Get it done. Make a decision. Get it done. Sometimes, though, you need to pause and think. In reality, more businesses

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