In the past several years, business coaching has gone beyond a luxury reserved for Corporate America’s executives to an invaluable tool for small business owners. Yet many small business owners are still unclear on the difference between a business coach and a business consultant. The difference is as simple as the old expression “give a
For many Manufacturing, Trades and Tech Companies labor is the single largest expense item in their operation. Labor costs are often the difference between profit and loss and the quality of life the business owner will enjoy. Here we talk about some ways to reduce labor costs. First, it is absolutely imperative that
Nothing ever stays the same. On the one hand we despise change yet on the other we don’t want to stagnate and become boring. Yet our habits keep us locked into a course of action day after day, year after year. The way we think, the way we behave, the way we experience things, the
You probably know the myth of innovation as a sudden flash of insight that comes from nowhere. We read about that “aha” moment, or that light bulb turning on in the mind of some inventor or innovator, and this is true to an extent. Einstein really did get flashes of insight while shaving in the
What Are Impulse Buys? We most commonly associate impulse buying in the traditional retail setting. Typically, impulse items are those small pieces of merchandise that crowd the retail sales check out area and aisle ways. They include candy bars, batteries, magazines, salty snacks, cold soda pops and other beverages, and other assorted items. These
The Covid-19 pandemic forced many small businesses to become resourceful and innovative about how they conducted business. While we are all still on the road to recovery, some of the hybrid business models used to adapt that came from necessity may be here to stay. Below are four ways small businesses adapted in response to
You may know Mark Cuban as the Owner of the Mavericks, perhaps your exposure to him may be as a technology company billionaire, or you may be more familiar with him as an investor on the hit show Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors in an attempt to
