Comprehensive Business Coach Leads Online Machinery Sales Start-Up to Growth
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“You’d be crazy not to take advantage of something like the SBDC. What an awesome thing,” he says. “Paying for a business consultant is very expensive. John is extremely knowledgeable. I think of him as a partner. I don’t think I’d be where I’m at now if it wasn’t for him.”
6 Ways to Spring Clean Your Small Business
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It’s exactly like regular spring cleaning except it involves way less elbow grease and a lot more professional evaluating. Okay, so it’s nothing like regular spring cleaning.
How Running A Small Business is Like Coaching a Football Team
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It may not be something that often crosses your mind, but football coaches and small business owners have a lot in common. Both professions require leadership, dedication, commitment and a strong work ethic in order to succeed. Just like football coaches, as a small business owner, you must take on many roles to ensure everybody […]
Front Desk Employees
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During our Medical Practice Profit Drivers class we ask participants what area of the practice they think is the most critical to driving profits: clinical, front desk or billing? The question always generates lively debate with an almost equal split among people forcefully arguing for one of the three departments. When the front desk faction […]
2016: More Profits, Less Chocolate
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The year 2016 has arrived and with it, our annual declarations of New Year’s resolutions and fresh starts. My resolutions this year are to win the lottery, compete on Dancing with the Stars (as a star of course), and limit myself to only ONE pound of chocolate per day. In reality, statistics show that only […]
Sound Business Practices Move Georgia Peach Retailer from Stands to Stores
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Travelers driving north and south on Interstate 95 will pass 24 billboards inviting them to stop and purchase mouth-watering products like “Fresh Georgia Peaches — Exit 58” and “Georgia Peach Ice Cream” at Georgia Peach World and the Eulonia Country Store in Townsend. The young entrepreneur behind the bold, simple marketing campaign, Jason Reott, is […]
The Most Important Cost You Never Consider
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John is a web designer. He owns a small web design company and carefully considers the cost of labor, especially outsourced jobs, when he bids on a new website project. Sometimes, to save money, he’ll do most (if not all) of the work himself, especially on smaller jobs. He makes a profit most of the […]
Importance of Professional Development
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Improve your business success by making time for professional development! Often business people get so caught up in the day to day that they do not make the time, nor do they see the value, of taking the time to attend professional development programs that can help them manage and grow their business. Below are […]