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As a business owner, you know what it’s like to lie awake at 2 a.m. Maybe it has happened when you are excited and full of new ideas for your business. More often, it’s because you are worried about issues you will face the next day. Sometimes, it’s because you just woke up with the solution to a problem. I’ve experienced all those emotions about my businesses over the years. Awake at 2 o’clock? is where I share them with you, and hopefully help with answers that will let you sleep.
John F. Dini, CExP, CEPA
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Small business owners are the Hunters of the 21st century. We are 3% of the US population, and yet we create over half of all American jobs. As Hunters, we may not be inclined to manage by the numbers or stick to systems. Are you a Hunter or a Farmer?
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How prepared are you to exit your company?
The Assessment breaks down the four major categories of exit readiness; Finance, Planning, Operations and Revenue/Profit.
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Boomer Business Owners’ Retirement Accelerates
Pepperdine University, in cooperation with the International Business Brokers Association and the M&A Source, publishes a quarterly Market Pulse Survey on the sale of small businesses in the United States. The most recent report, covering the fourth quarter of 2012, … Continue reading
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Does Technology Help or Threaten Small Businesses?
A small computer service company wants to sell Microsoft software licenses to its customers. They send an employee to become certified in licensing. (Microsoft offers some 600 variants.). As soon as they purchase a license, however, Microsoft begins soliciting that customer … Continue reading
2 Responses to Does Technology Help or Threaten Small Businesses?
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I agree with the well stated information about how big business is encroaching on small business and stealing market share. I also agree with the need for small business to exploit its potential advantage of face to face contact and potential relationship building.
I feel, however, additional articles ought to deal with what local business people need to do with those opportunities for face to face contact. Too many businesses make the contact with meaningless, and time wasting efforts instead of those which can add value. -
Digital “relationships” are rapidly replacing face-to-face interaction. We’ve heard all the excuses… plane tickets are so expensive… it’s so easy to just sit at my desk and send an e-mail… with social media I make them come to me, etc… I addressed this subject recently in a blog.
http://bigskyassociates.com/2013/03/look-me-in-the-eye-and-say-that/
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Leaner and Meaner (Part 3): Investing in Employees
Employees are free agents. As a business owner you wouldn’t sell your customers at a loss because in past years you made a profit. Neither should we expect employees to get better at their jobs without expecting compensation commensurate with their current … Continue reading
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Does Your Business Need to be Leaner and Meaner? (Part 1)
I’ve been surprised by the tone of my clients’ conversations since the beginning of the year. They want to get tougher. They want to plan more. They want to find the chinks in their armor, and sharpen their weapons. These … Continue reading
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Excellent overall assessment… looking forward to the details.
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Thanks for the post. Time to put this into action instead of
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you know john, the ever present threat to small business will, as it now seems, never reduce in size. it is a constant effort to keep one step ahead of all of the negatives, including our government and the world. Looking forward to your continued input on this matter.
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Business Plans and New Year’s Resolutions
For the last week or so, the regular denizens of my local gym have been “preparing” for the onslaught of Resolutioners, as we call them. Those are the folks that show up every year right after the holidays, determined to … Continue reading
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How true, with no measurement and someone to hold you accountable you will be back to your old ways in no time.
I don’t stay in the usa but I agree with you on the matter their is a big differ from.genx and the land wil provide a harder operation to the genx than before or ever
Great post — as per normal — thanks John.
I am intrigued by your “Woodstock” password. Is this a reference to Snoopy’s indefatigable secretary? Or to your misty memories of a certain festival in the ’60s?
I think we should be told…….
Since the little birdie was named after the festival, it is one and the same!