Gold: The Fallacy of “Safe” Investments
I am far from an investment expert – and I’ve never tried to be one. I’ve always contended that a financial advisor has a very different skillset than an accountant…
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November 29, 2016
Articles on strategy, marketing, and growth for business owners. Covers everything from entity structure and advisory insights to profitability planning and positioning your company for long-term value.
Fortune Teller Business Planning
“I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.” – NYC…
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September 12, 2016
What Sort of Customers Are You Attracting?
"He was a tycoon, then a cheapskate Went out looking for a keepsake To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row He had a satchel full of cash And dishes…
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August 21, 2016
Low Price and Diminished Value
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the importance of charging appropriately for the services you render. The article focused on the common phenomenon of “what have you…
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July 24, 2016
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Years ago when I was first starting my business I picked up a client who’d had a series of terrible accountants. How terrible? The first accountant had made some material…
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June 27, 2016
My Failure with Referrals
I have always tried to be a good referral partner. Whenever people bring up that they are looking for someone in a particular field, I almost always have someone I…
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February 14, 2016
Greenspan, Agassi, and How Others See Us
“ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant” – Alan Greenspan…
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January 28, 2016
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My Advice on MSN, Fit Small Business, SCORE, Trusted Choice, and Insureon
Over the past month I have been featured on a number of different publications. I wanted to archive the links to them here for any readers of the blog: MSN…
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January 2, 2016
“If I”
With the year already coming to a close, people are likely reflecting on what has happened this year or what they want to happen in the coming year. Whether the…
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December 14, 2015
Are MLMs Scams?
"An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof." – Marcello Truzzi Everyone who is involved in Multi-level Marketing (MLM) will espouse the wealth and wonders it can bring to your life…but somehow those…
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November 16, 2015