The Source

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Suppose you moonlight as a small business owner and you want to start selling your products online; maybe you make a line of high-quality cashmere socks embroidered with inspirational Paul Drucker quotes. Ok, you say to yourself: How hard can it be to avoid giving money to Jeff Bezos?

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Is your small business making enough profit? To make it worthwhile, the business needs to be profitable. How much profit should a small business make? Profit is the difference between the money your business earns, your revenue, and the money your business spends, your expenses. What is profit?

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Your business is struggling and you seek outside help? But what does a consultant for small business cost? What is a consultant for small business A consultant for small business helps smaller organizations achieve their goals. A nice add-on is when the consultant has own experience in small business.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

I finally said, “I’ll bet it’s just small business accounting.”. After an explanation from the owner, we all came to realize it was nothing more than small business accounting. It’s the same as why salespeople would sooner be out making a sale than submitting paperwork. Invest in inflation.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 13, 2021

Phil started a business in 2000, and 18 years later, he sold it! He went through start-up, growth, and eventual sale. It's what many business owners dream of, and it might just be one of those things that keep his ideal clients stressing over. Phil has positioned himself as a "sounding board" for business owners.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And recommend a few highly impactful books that I think will make a difference in your sales and marketing, business, or life. Ultimate Sales Machine. I first read Ultimate Sales Machine in ~2012 when I moved back from Hawaii to Oregon. The Ultimate Sales Machine is an excellent book on sales and marketing systems.

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For years, we have used the Generally Accepted Accounting Principle of expensing items that small businesses purchase of up to $500 or even $1000 when appropriate. . The rule is limiting businesses to expense a purchase which is $200 or less and consumed within a year. This is not going to happen to most small businesses.).

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

By the end, you will be able to: Understand the difference between Wealth Management and Asset Management Describe the types of products and services offered by wealth management firms Understand how wealth management firms make money Identify key wealth management distribution channels 1.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Quick Tips for Consulting to Small Organizations By Carter McNamara on October 26, 2011. There’s a lot of money available to help small businesses, and it seems like there’ll be more available as we work to make more jobs. So OD in small businesses might be even more worthwhile. Read more.].

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Paying for a cup of coffee on an iPad is mainstream in big cities, but the majority of small businesses — the backbone of our local economies — have not yet fully come online. I categorize local businesses into four generations of technological maturity. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

However, what my undergraduate business program failed to emphasize was the often-overlooked world of startups —particularly small businesses that operate outside the spotlight of household brand names or well-funded tech giants such as Uber or Airbnb.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

I’m busy working and I want to spend my time working on client sites. For me, I can pick up the phone and my sales process from that point onwards is about qualification and some negotiation, but you’ve got to start with lead generation. In fact, my website is my secret 24/7 sales agent. My site has a lot of videos.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. For our final project, the class was broken into small groups and each group wrote a 40 page paper examining a thesis in an industry of their choosing. That’s how I become interested in consulting.”

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Betsy Jordyn: We were at a business training where we were learning how to grow our consulting practices back in the day.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2017

This doesn’t mean you don’t need to put a great deal of thought into the preparation process – the usual questions about the who, the how and the why of your campaign – but it does mean that if you run a small business, it’s something you can handle by yourself. Ready to take the plunge? Next, you make your budget decisions.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

For example, instead of publishing a report on a business’s supply chain, consultants might publish a series of reports on its individual components, such as sourcing, production, logistics, and distribution. For example, AI could be used to analyse data, such as historical sales revenue numbers.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The best way for a marketing team to grow sales and market share is to help design a product that uses a network effect and builds remarkability and engagement right into the item itself. And yet, the team just spent three hours arguing about where to shoot the next commercial. It goes on and on.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

Many consultants aren't fans of the back-end administrative tasks that go along with running a small business and having to do it all as some of our survey respondents explained: [My least favorite part of consulting is] not knowing what I should do next. I'm selling ME - no hiding place behind teams etc the product is me !

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses. The Risks of Recruiting on Your Own Business owners or executives can conduct the job selection process independently.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

So, yeah, just like you say, I kind of dabbled around a little bit, once I did find permanent employment again, I did dabble around a little bit in some coaching and some consulting for friends and other small business owners in my neighborhood, and in my area, trying to help them improve. We have a really great product.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

But sales hardly budged. Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. Since speed had always been a competitive differentiator, this effect was especially important, and probably canceled any sales gain from the greater choice. Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 8, 2015

I’ve noticed that owners of what I call micro-businesses, sales of $250-500,000, and even up to $1 million, take a lot more pride in what they’ve buil than owners whose companies have broken through and are doing $5, 10, 20 million or more. I’m not saying owners of larger small-businesses aren’t proud. Pride in ownership.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

And in a small business, like a convenience store, it initially is: customers, employees, suppliers, and owners. It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. Step one is to recognize your dependencies , i.e. your key stakeholders. You may think that this will be easy.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2015

July saw factory production in Greece contract sharply amid an unprecedented drop in new orders and difficulties in purchasing raw materials. July’s sharp decrease in the level of new business at manufacturers surpassed the previous record set in February 2012. well below the neutral 50.0 mark and its lowest ever reading.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2022

Family – there’s the implied taking care of the family financially and often buyers will tell me they want a business many owners’ lament that their kids aren’t interested in the business. Accomplishment – when you see your company’s product or service solve a customer’s problem it’s rewarding.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 27, 2015

Those include: If we pay people too much based on their productivity we’ll lose money. If we ignore sales and marketing strategies business will eventually disappear. Good restaurateurs know exactly what percentage of sales food costs, labor costs, rent and other key expenses must come in at to make it a profitable venture.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 24, 2020

sale of weapons) or confer a net economic benefit to society (e.g. Many small businesses, like family owned restaurants, operate on a cash only basis. Digital currency will usher in a cashless society, which may expose businesses to increased government scrutiny and higher tax burdens. Centralization of goods markets.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. A popular, core feature of our product was our website grader. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done. Remember that Foursquare grader project?

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

So, I beg you, don’t design your own sales materials. Many sales are won and lost by simply by how you graphically represent yourself.” Whether you are selling productized consulting on your website or use it as a way to foster interaction with potential clients, B2B buyers expect to be able to purchase your services.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. A new CEO was quickly able to help his team see they were victims of too much emphasis on global business units. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. How will we choose to compete?

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. Whenever you are a stuck in a rut, or looking for inspiration, visit one of these consulting blogs and read an article or two.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

He allegedly had his top distributor accelerate orders, so sales looked stronger than they really were and then, post-sale, orders declined because the distributor had months and months of product. And this is not confined to the small business and lower middle market. The buyer later found out from an employee.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2016

Partners in law, accounting, and engineering firms have to generate business, which means they speak, network, ask for referrals, etc. Businesses have dedicated sales teams. People who submit bids, provide quotes, make calls, prepare proposals, or whatever it takes to keep the line workers busy. Elvis Presley.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As you might know, Motorola eventually dominated the pre-smartphone mobile phone market with close to $10 billion in annual sales. In my consulting practice today, I exclusively serve small businesses — some as small as $500,000 a year in sales up to $15 million typically (sometimes up to $300 million).

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 18, 2018

The owner (business seller) and their representatives often see how a company 100 times their size sold for some high multiple (of profit). If the owner of a multi-billion firm sees more risk in his compared to larger firms shouldn’t small business owners recognize this also? It’s where repeat business comes from.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2019

What about for businesses making or selling a product or labor-intensive service (fixing furnaces, installing systems, etc.) We just met with an owner who told us how they bought the rights to sell a new product line from a struggling competitor. Watch out when large opportunities appear in your sales pipeline.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

First let me state that to me any business making a profit after paying the owner a fair market salary for the work he or she does is a “B” or better business. Achieving scale as it’s rare to see a business doing under $5 million in sales be an “A” business.

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