Do you ever feel like you live in a vacuum? You know the feeling: everything sucks. Well February 4th was National Vacuum Day. It was intended to celebrate vacuums in […]
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Key Indicators – Income vs. Cash Flow
Income and Cash Flow are two very different things. You can have a million dollar business, and still be unable to pay the bills. There are several contributing factors to […]
Key indicators – Profit
It is easy to know that a business that is operating at a loss is in need of intervention to get it profitable, but what about a business that is […]
Networking – profit, loss leader or plain loss?
Networking has become one of the most used marketing avenues for small business. As my husband Jared, who is a PR and Marketing strategist, says, “People have to know you, […]
Key Indicators – Do you have the money to pay your bills?
As small business owners we normally can tell if we have enough money in the bank to pay the bills this week, but what about for the rest of the […]
Key Indicators – Industry Standards
An Industry Standard simply means what is normal for a particular industry. As small business owners it is often hard to know if we are on track with other similar […]
Key Indicators – Why should I follow them?
We all run our businesses based on what we think we know, unfortunately for most business owners, it is what they don’t know or don’t track that can hurt them. […]
Year End Task List Part 2
We continue with the tasks that you must get done before the end of the year. Compare this year to prior years and to the budget you set for yourself. […]
Goals – are you still focused?
We have come to the end of the first quarter of 2013 so what happened to all those goals you set at the beginning of the year? I’ll bet some […]