Break to Fix Strategies

The World's Best Entrepreneurs Are The EST

Dusting off your high school yearbook may be the last thing you want to do this fine day, but its faded pages hold clues to entrepreneurial gold. Seriously. Whether you...

What A Prostitute Can Teach You About Your Bill Rates

I want to ask you something. Be forewarned, this is a really edgy question.  Who do you think is a higher "quality" prostitute, one that charges $10 or one that...

The Best Thing To Systematize In Your Business

Systematizing your business is the key to unlimited success and growth.  I know you know that. But many people struggle with the "where to get started" part.  Do you need...

The Lesson Derived From Andrew Mason’s Termination From Groupon

Andrew Mason, 32, the charismatic, but controversial CEO of Groupon, has been fired. After a rocky leadership, profanity laced memos to the SEC, fuzzy accounting practices, SEC investigations, and a...

Improve Sales Through Split Testing

If you aren't familiar with split testing, it is the closet marketers (that's you) can get to omnipotence.  In other words, it is the scientific method to discovering customer demand.   Instead of...

Handwritten Notes: The Forgotten Business & Sales Tool

  For Those Who Can't Read My Handwritten Note I admit, there is one downside to a handwritten note. . . sucky handwriting can't be understood.  So, just in case...

Welcome To The Creativity Economy

Say goodbye to the status quo. The past economy was about industrialization. If you could make the same thing, consistently the same way, you won. The new economy is The...

The Biggest Excuse We Tell Ourselves

If Only It hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. A prospect for my business growth consulting group decided to go with a competitor. Egads! I mean how could...

Would You Do This To Become A Leader In The Spice Industry?

Earlier this month I posted my first “Break to Fix” blog post , in which I shared a little fictional story about how to fix a common business problem –...

Is Your Business Better? It Doesn't Matter!

Who is the best competitive swimmer in the world right now? Michael Phelps. You knew the answer, I’m sure. You might not even follow the Olympics, or any sport, but...

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