by Linda Fayerweather | Nov 18, 2013 | Business Culture, Planning for Business
If you are thinking “Gee, I’ll make 2014 great with a masterful business plan” — take a couple deep breathes and get real. For years I’ve been an advocate of a One Page Business Plan by Jim Horan, which is simply...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Nov 3, 2013 | Planning for Business
Every so often when I tell people I own a business they look at me in amazement. I’m asked all sort of questions like how did I start? Where did I get the money to start? How many hours a week do I work? Just to name a few. They often walk away is disbelief at...
by Linda Fayerweather | Sep 23, 2013 | Planning for Business, Trends
“You gotta get a niche” is heard over and over and what I’ve seen is just finding the right micro market can be hard. Realize that most of us have some selected information or knowledge we can share. Using the word NICHE, this is a simple way to...
by Linda Fayerweather | Aug 19, 2013 | Business Improvement, Personal Improvement, Planning for Business
Remember; there is a limit to the amount of revenue you can produce all by yourself. If you charge an hourly rate and you work for clients you can multiply the hours you will work times your hourly rate and this is the maximum income you can produce in a year. How...
by Linda Fayerweather | Jun 23, 2013 | Benchmarking, Business Improvement, Planning for Business
Have you been down the rabbit hole lately? Maybe this happens to you, too. You look for information on one topic or fact on the internet and it leads to . . . while maybe we need to Lean Up our business this summer. Well, I was reading local news article called the...
by Linda Fayerweather | Jun 2, 2013 | Planning for Business, Selling, Selling a Business
Dreaming about the value of your business? Especially when Instagram sold for $1 Billion in 2012 to Facebook and Tumblr was sold in May 2013 to Yahoo for $1.1 Billion with $13 Million in revenue. These were both still very much start-ups; Instagram with 13...