Is 2021 the year you’re going to wear your investor hat rather than your owner hat? I hope it will be. You deserve so much more for all the risk you’re taking. Profit is the return on the investment risk the company owner(s) takes by being in business in the first place. Running a company … Continue reading Is Company Profit Delivering a Risk Premium to You As Owner?
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What Does Profit Reveal About Management Effectiveness?
Profit tells you how the company is being managed. It is the definitive measure of a privately owned services or knowledge based company. Is this a “duh” statement? I don’t think so. It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day activities and lose sight of the fact that privately owned firms are the embodiment … Continue reading What Does Profit Reveal About Management Effectiveness?
What are You Doing to Increase Profit in 2021?
This year is devoted to PROFIT I am singularly focused this year on helping privately owned, expert knowledge-based companies make a profit from every engagement (sale) and increase their total annual profit. Why? 1) Profit tells you how the company is being managed. It is the definitive measure of a company. It is critical for … Continue reading What are You Doing to Increase Profit in 2021?
How To Turn Lemons into Lemonade
You’ll certainly get no argument from me about the relief we are all feeling as 2020 comes to a close. It’s been a difficult year in many ways. I’m inspired by the many companies that sat back in mid-March, asked themselves “What do we do now?” and figured out the way forward. Some early efforts … Continue reading How To Turn Lemons into Lemonade
Echo Chambers Kill Innovation and Growth
I lived in an echo chamber of consultants for more than 7 years. I digested everything the leader wrote, said, and decreed. Everyone else repeated and reinforced his ideas. He created what he deemed best practices and heaven help anyone who disagreed. One day he verbally slapped me upside the head because I questioned whether … Continue reading Echo Chambers Kill Innovation and Growth
What Do Bakers Know that Your Services Firm Should Adopt?
What’s the difference between a cupcake, a layer cake and a wedding cake? They all use the same basic raw ingredients and have a similar texture and taste. The difference is in the knowledge and expertise it takes to produce them. Anyone who can follow a recipe can make a cupcake. One needs a bit … Continue reading What Do Bakers Know that Your Services Firm Should Adopt?
Pandemic Recovery Profitability Checklist 2021
It’s December 2, 2020. News about the upcoming availability of COVID-19 vaccines is everywhere. Business Owners and Executives are both excited and worried because there are many unanswered questions. Our Profitability Checklist reflects both the likelihood of pandemic impacts for months to come, and optimism that recovery will begin by mid-year. Click here to open … Continue reading Pandemic Recovery Profitability Checklist 2021
Gold Level Inner Ring Bullseye Marketing Sample Plan
Bullseye Marketing is how services companies powerfully market to existing customers and clients. Click below to read the exact plan we use with the clients who choose the Gold Level Inner Ring Bullseye Marketing plan. Bullseye Marketing Gold Level Inner Ring Sample Plan See the complete Bullseye Marketing page here.
Do You Always Love What You See in the Mirror?
What happens when you look in the mirror? Your reflection stares back at you and you do an assessment of what you see. This assessment includes what you like or love about yourself. Great hair! Bright eyes! Stylish clothes! And it includes what you don’t like: droopy eye lids, dry skin, signs of aging! You … Continue reading Do You Always Love What You See in the Mirror?
Can You Overcome the Pricing-Profit Divide by Productizing Services?
Have you been reading a lot lately about the idea that services companies should ‘productize’ their services. This means that a services company- lawyers, educators, specialty consultants, designers, architects, CPAS, and tech services companies– should package their services into ‘products’ they can sell off the shelf. There are three problems with this: 1) A product … Continue reading Can You Overcome the Pricing-Profit Divide by Productizing Services?
