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5 Key Leadership Tips for New Managers
People don't leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses. As a new manager, it's your responsibility to inspire and motivate employees. Your team expects you to provide constructive feedback and reward hard work. It’s a daunting responsibility. Forbes reports that nearly 60...
What to Look for in Venture Capital Funding
As companies look for funding to propel a strong rebound off the economic lows of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are turning to venture capital. But VC is a universe unto itself and unless you know the rules and routines, you’re doomed to failure. And even if you do get...
SEO Campaigns: How Long Until You Start Seeing More Traffic?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a long-term endeavor that gets the best results from consistent effort over an extended period of time. Although most business owners are in for the long haul, it is normal to be concerned about how long it will take before you...
Self-Coaching: Learning to Be Constructively Self-Critical
You are a work in progress, but are you working to improve yourself or stuck in self-criticism? Learn to constructively improve your life with self-coaching. The benefits of coaching are obvious. We have all seen people improve thanks to the focused and personalized...
6 Commonsense Management Tips
Many people get promoted to management solely based on their technical skills, without any thought given to their management skills. This can leave new managers adrift, and unable to manage effectively. But don’t worry, the solution is here for you. Nothing will...
Why Overworking Does More Harm Than Good
You take pride in performing at your best, but are you doing too much? Learn why overworking can hurt your company in the long run. Most business owners are on the job at least 50 hours per week, which is 45 percent more than the national employee average of 34.4...
9 Fatal Negotiation Mistakes People Often Make
Negotiations can be tricky. While they should be about getting the best deal for all sides, using the wrong words or tone can quickly ruin what should have been a profitable discussion. It is in your best interest to find out what mistakes destroy negotiations so you...
How to Create a Digital Marketing Strategy Today That Will Result in Essential Sales Now and Position Your Business for Strong Growth Post COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way consumers shop for products and services. Here's how to create a digital marketing strategy as the economy recovers. Over 100,000 businesses have closed this year due to COVID-19. It how it is affecting businesses. That's why...
How to Purchase and Manage Your Domain Name Successfully
Ever since the internet became a digital destination for businesses and customers, companies have vied with each other to get the domain names they want. Choosing (and owning!) the right domain name is important, for several reasons. As a business, for example, a...
What You Need to Do Today – Strategic Planning for a Post COVID 19 World
The post COVID-19 business environment is just around the corner. Virtually no one was ready to deal with the pandemic, but savvy companies will be fully prepared to take advantage of business and market conditions as the pandemic wanes. Are you in that elite group?...
Family Owned Businesses Insights
Common Situations Which Can Destroy a Family Business If Handled Wrong
Situations that can harm or destroy a family business are as many and varied as can be imagined, especially those which arise in the middle of an argument. Your problems won’t likely be as famous as the Ford family’s problems – see the in-depth book by Henry...
Mistakes Happen in Family and Corporations, What Do You Do About Them?
Mistakes happen in both family businesses and in non-family businesses, however, the reaction in a family business to a mistake is different, but mistakes are equally consequential – to the business. Here is what you need to know to deal effectively with the problem....
A Core Problem in Small and Family Businesses
Welcome to our discussion of small business issues. In interviewing many people over the years about what one problem stands out in their mind as the most difficult to solve, it is the situation of being given another thing to tackle and resolve when your plate is...
Marrying brings enough complications but when it also involves two family businesses, it brings even more difficulties…
Problem—We are a Dairy Business in a college town. We have three daughters but no sons. Our oldest daughter works with our father as the leadership team. He watches the bottling; she deals with our customers who sell us milk. Our second daughter is the financial...
You Want Your Children To Join You In The Family Business. Will They?
Problem—Our oldest son is finishing college and will be married. He has worked with us and has a good understanding of our business. He has a good relationship with our father. How do we ensure that he joins us after his graduation and marriage? Answer—It is...
Family Businesses Need to Hire Smarter, Here’s How to Do It The Right Way
Question—What should we do when we need to hire a person who is not a member of our family? Answer—Look very carefully to find a person who will fit well into your family and do your job well too. This task is probably the most often questioned in family businesses. ...
You Want Your Kids to Join the Family Business – But Your Children May Not Want What You Want. What to Do?
Problem: Our Son is In High School and is on the Jr. Baseball Team which he thinks he wants to pursue when he is out of school. He helps us when we need him if it does not interfere with his baseball. How do we get him to commit to joining our business? Answer: ...
What Should You Do in a Family Business When The Parents and Children Disagree?
Problem: Our family usually does well working with each other. Of course, there is the occasional disagreement between parents and children where situations in the business result in an impasse where cooperation becomes impossible. Solution: Family business...
Why Is It That Even as A Family Business Grows Family Relationships Can Break Down?
Is this you? "Our family is close at work, but it seems like we never get to the problems and issues that divide us in life. This has been going on for years and I am afraid we are drifting apart, emotionally, and living in siloes so we cannot really communicate with...
Sales in The Family Business Have Been Falling Month After Month. How Do You Use the Power of The Family to Fix That?
Sales in your store have been falling for three months. (Use a three-month or other sufficiently long period of time so real trends can be easily seen, i.e., consistently falling over a time period in a way you have never experienced before.) What should you do as...
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- A Core Problem in Small and Family Businesses
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- Marrying brings enough complications but when it also involves two family businesses, it brings even more difficulties…
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- What You Need to Do Today – Strategic Planning for a Post COVID 19 World
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- You Want Your Kids to Join the Family Business – But Your Children May Not Want What You Want. What to Do?
- What Should You Do in a Family Business When The Parents and Children Disagree?
- Why Is It That Even as A Family Business Grows Family Relationships Can Break Down?
- For a Family Business, Which School Should You Send Your Children To?
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- Sales in The Family Business Have Been Falling Month After Month. How Do You Use the Power of The Family to Fix That?
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