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Take Care of Your Customers, or Someone Else Will

Listen to the Episode Below:  Getting clients to “keep coming back” is one of the Holy Grails for service businesses.…

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To Be a Successful Entrepreneur, Avoid These Mistakes

Would that we could wave a magic wand and–POOF!–be a successful entrepreneur. Actually, it’s usually more a matter of becoming…

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The Importance of Regular Checkups

You may roll your eyes and picture your grandmother waggling her finger in your face saying, “An ounce of prevention…

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‘Til Death Do We Part: How Not to Get Rid of a Business Partner

From the Department of “Was that form of exit strategy written into our partnership agreement?” comes this story from the…

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The Financial Systems That Help You Scale

Listen to the Episode Below:  Your business numbers can seem like a foreign language. Sure, they’re speaking to you—all the…

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A Practical Guide to Non-Compete Agreements

From my colleague Stephen Furnari comes this intelligent article on how to make employment non-compete agreements “stick.”  Courts are generally…

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How to Back Away So Your Business Runs Itself

Listen to the Episode Below:  Okay, so maybe “exit” planning sounds too final. Or “succession” too complicated. But can you…

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Top 5 Tips for Developing Well-Behaved Clients

We may like to think that animal training and child-rearing have nothing to do with establishing and maintaining business relationships…

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How Turnover Gets in the Way of Scaling

Listen to the Episode Below:  So you’ve finally decided you can’t do everything yourself. It’s time to grow. You put…

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Get Your Business Out of Your Head

Listen to the Episode Below:  How much of your business is in your head? If you’re not in the picture…

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