For a while now, I've been working with a business process just begging to be systemized. The problem is systemizing a business process requires two things many small businesses are short on: owner/manager analysis time and resources (people or equipment) to implement the system. What I noticed … [Read more...]
Creating ambassadors and agents of you
Last year, with the exception of software development for our company, I pretty much did it all myself. To some extent, the economic times dictated that's how it had to be for awhile. As the recession eased and our market began to invest in color verification tools again, I was ready. It was time to … [Read more...]
Changing Business Processes
As I closed out my 2010 bookkeeping over the last two weeks, I realized I had done something right about 12 months ago. As I tallied my business auto miles and out of pocket cash expenditures for the year, the process was going much faster than the previous year. I had made two business process … [Read more...]
Small Business 101: Build Recurring Revenue Streams
WordPerfect had the best software tech support ever and they gave it away for free. Please don't do that, the second part anyway. Be the best and charge for it on an ongoing basis. Recurring revenue will sustain you through good times and bad. I can say this because it has worked for me. Several … [Read more...]
Improve by Starting Over
You might be 90% done with a project but the end result is not looking so hot. Stop, scrap it (but learn from your mistakes) and start over with the goal to improve the end result. That's what a turn-around artist does. They walk into a business look at what's being done and then find more … [Read more...]