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How To Raise Money Fast

There comes a moment for every business when cash is needed imminently.  I don't care how big or how small your business is, when you need money fast for your business there...

The Generic Label Trap: How To Break It

Integrated Counsel Trumps Lawyer When you hear the word lawyer, what do you think? Costly. Paperwork. Stressful. Reserved. Antagonistic. When you hear integrated counsel, what do you think? Probably nothing...

The Ultimate Sales Close

It’s that pivotal moment. The client is just a few perfect words away from the sale. What do you say? What will make sure they write out that check? How...

Always Have These 6 Contractors At The Ready

You land a big new project and need expertise and staff that you don’t currently have. No small business can afford an army of employees just sitting around waiting for...

The Best Way To Save A Bad Business Partnership

A confluence of events put me in front of two business partners who hated each other. To make matters worse, they were sisters. 50/50 owners who planned to do everything...

Advantages Of The Outsider

I was at a conference for technology service providers - the folks who setup computers, network them together, and fix them when things go awry. The event was filled with...

You Must Nail It To Scale It

The word “scaling” gets thrown around a lot. It seems every entrepreneur I meet is “currently scaling their business.” Yet it reality, they are far from it. Selling more is...

Make People Buy More From You Using The Sampling Effect!

Ever walk past the perfume stands in the mall? If you have, you've been attacked by an army of perfume spraying sales clerks. It clearly frustrates most passerby's. So why...

What Are You Passionate About?

When you have passion for something it will get you over every brick wall, help you weather every storm, and even when you’ve been knocked down for the hundredth time,...

Customers Buy The Experience, Not The Product

I don't care if your business makes a product or delivers a service, at the end of the day, people buy experiences. That soap your company makes, may be delivering...

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