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If You’re Treading Water, You’re Drowning

IT’S THE PLIGHT of many a business, sales are steady, things seem good but over time there is a case of the disappearing profits. It’s enough to drive you nuts.

Why does a company that is going well, keeping its best customers happy, and retaining good employees seem to be going slowly under?

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It’s Not Enough to Know “How To”

WHY IS IT that so many overweight people who really don’t want to lose weight buy weight loss books?

In a minute I’ll give you the answer, but first let’s get the business lesson. Last month I had a young business owner ask me at the end of a seminar all about how to grow his small business.

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Why You Should Get on the Business Coaching Bandwagon

Challenges are hard to anticipate in any business, but they’re easier to overcome with business coaching.

Business coaching is just like sports coaching – like a sports coach coaching an athlete and trains them to get better, business coaching not only helps businesses establish organized plans for every challenge they come across, it helps set those plans in motion. Companies that have business coaching tackle challenges with a plan and business strategy from the business owner’s view and an outside view: the business coach. This way, the company achieves its desired outcome.

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Making Money by Building and Selling a Business

BACK WHEN I WAS SEVEN, my parents took me to the house of a friend of theirs for a barbecue. I knew him, he was our milkman, but what I didn’t know was that I was about to get the best business lesson of my life from the Milkman.

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Developing Your Niche- Part 2

In this article we continue to look at developing your niche. So what’s your best-selling product… and what’s the profit margin on that product?

Do you have a “best-seller”? Do you know what it is? What is the margin on that product? Don’t know?

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How to Look at the Business Cycle in a New Way

No matter where you live in the world right now, the seasons are on the verge of changing. And, just like the seasons, the business cycle is changing as well.

Although the U.S. continues to work its way out of its “economic winter,” parts of the Asia Pacific are in full fledged “economic summer.”

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