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Tips from the Oil and Gas Service Industry Leaders by Christian Brim

If you’ve been in the Oil and Gas Service business for any amount of time, you know the wild ride of commodity prices and how it can make or break...

A Clockwork 4 Week Vacation – Case Study of Cyndi Thomason of bookskeep

What does this picture remind you of? I think it looks a lot like that still from Gone With the Wind, the one taken just after Scarlett O’Hara says, “As...

Spend Your Time

Time and money. Both are scarce resources. Money depletes quickly. Time depletes, comparatively, more slowly. Before you spend your money, spend your time. Determine if your time is resulting in...

The Real Way to Persuade Others

It’s about passion. It is having a love for what you do. It is about giving a shit. I met a woman who is a dolphin trainer. She couldn’t stop...

The Daily Huddle at Profit First Professionals

Every day at 8:34am Eastern Time our small company of eight people conducts a daily huddle that is 15 minutes or less. All employees attend. We meet both in person...

Do Your Employees Trust You?

I seem to get this call a lot. It’s a business owner in desperation, seeking immediate help with employees. The question is inevitably a variation of how do I get...

The Most Effective Closing Technique

Of all the things I have done in my entrepreneurial career, selling has been the one constant. Ever since my first job out of college I had to sell to...

The 8 Tendencies Bad Decision Makers Possess

I’ve been an entrepreneur for a lot of years.  At one point, I’d started, grown, and sold a couple of businesses, and I thought I knew everything there was to...

How To Find Banks That Support Profit First

Profit First is a simple system, but the process of finding a bank that supports it can be painful. Almost 100,000 companies have implemented Profit First within the first year...

7 Ways to Make Your Business Money While You Sleep

Think about the way your business runs:  you attract prospective clients, convert them to customers, collect the money, cultivate repeat business, and encourage customers to refer other prospective clients.  Each...

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