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Back to Business – Know Thy Numbers

By Brad Sugars

Do you know how many customers you need (or how many sales you need to make) today to make a profit?

How about to break even?

Do you know how long you’ll have to work this year just to pay your taxes?

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Back to Business – Your Reasons “Why”

By Brad Sugars

Do you have one good reason “why” you should expand or go into business for yourself – even if the “sky is falling”  in this economy?

How about 10?

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Back to Business – First in a Series

By Brad Sugars

Sometimes, it pays to change your business for the sake of change.

Other times, you have to change your business because the market tells you to. And if you don’t change, you’re dead.

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Opportunity in Crisis

By Brad Sugars

How to See the World Like Successful Business People Do

We’ve all been following the news lately and yes … the world in economic turmoil. But unlike the journalists and the naysayers, great business people are looking for opportunity in the midst of the crisis, and many are finding it.

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You’ll Never Make a Fortune Saving a Wage

By Brad Sugars

Yes, saving a wage is killing your business.  And, I mean that literally …

I know. I see the accountants saying, you have to run lean to get a decent profit, right?

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The Formula for Success

By Brad Sugars

I have a very simple formula for success in life and I want to share it with you.

But I have one condition … first you have to understand these two things … just because it’s simple doesn’t make it easy, and often the simplest things are the most brilliant.

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Greatest Secret in the Business World – Part 2

By Brad Sugars

Last month, we looked at the “Five Ways” and showed you how easy it was to get a 61 per cent increase in your bottom line … If you missed it, call for a back issue, because it truly is a great “secret” of business.

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The Greatest Secret in the World (of Business) – Part 1

By Brad Sugars

Most business owners struggle for years chasing higher profits.

Most fail. And they do so because they are relentlessly trying to make their bottom-line grow by focusing on upping sales or cutting expenses.

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Getting Rid of People

By Brad Sugars

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, used to get rid of the bottom 20% of his employees each year. While some see this as a harsh way to handle business, Welch had both strategic and practical reasons for following this mandate.

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Some Owners need to SACK themselves, is it you … ?

By Brad Sugars

So, you started the company, you built it up, but are you the best person to keep running it?

It’s a tough question.

Entrepreneurs are not always the best managers. In fact, they are often some of the worst.

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