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Back to Business Basics- Part 1

SOMETIMES, it pays to change your business for the sake of change. At 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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How will KFC v Iowa ruling affect Franchises?

A very interesting legal battle has caught my attention recently.

KFC Corporation V Iowa Department of Revenue is one of the most interesting and important cases on franchise taxation in the last 20 years in America.

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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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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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Profit is the new black

By Brad Sugars

Here’s a little known secret about business.

It doesn’t matter what your turnover is, or how many employees you have, or how many customers you’ve got.

It doesn’t matter how many offices you own or if you’ve got a cool company logo.

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The Thank-You Note Theory …

By Brad Sugars

I have a theory, and it’s a theory I have seen proven again and again in business.  And, it’s a theory that has made so many companies so much money, that it literally blows me away how few ever use it.

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Making Your Small Business BIG …

B y Brad Sugars

You know almost every big business started small, in fact many of them part time from home.

And yet, so many small companies fail to ever become more than a job and a wage for the owner. They fail to become true businesses and remain forever a BUSY-ness for the owner.

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