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National Business performance

Do You Know Betty?

  • Business Profits
  • November 9, 2011
Years ago I watched the Dr. Phil McGraw show and he said “If you are going to sell things that Betty buys, you better see life through Betty...
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Business success is more than a “hit and miss” business strategy

Business energy starts with the values and beliefs of an organization’s executive team. This energy must transfer throughout an entire...
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Communication choices can help or hinder productivity, brand value, and performance

In every era, as new technology becomes available, we have to figure out the best way to incorporate our new tools into the mix, as evidenced by an...
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Business culture maps help you achieve better performance and growth

All companies experience lifecycles. Early on business owners are so busy running multiple facets of their operation that they pay little attention...
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Retail sales August 2009

The latest figures show weak retail sales for August with a 5.3% drop vs. same month previous year, but a 2.7% increase vs. previous month.The...
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Dashboards: an effective tool to manage and improve performance

Dashboards are a means to improvebusiness performance - if you're considering an improvement initiative, make sure you budget for dashboards as a...
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Employee benefits: is now a good time to reduce benefit costs?

An offering of benefits to employees or prospective employees is intended as an enticement to attract and retain the ‘better’ employee...
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Starting a business

Starting a business Most small businesses in the U.S. fail. Why? Was it that the business itself and its value proposition were ill-conceived? Or,...
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Top-line growth during the recession

Why are US companies unable to sustain growth? Is the response the recession, global competitive threats, terrorism, or not knowing what the...
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Failure leads to success

Failure leads to successOur US corporate culture does not lend itself to failure as a means to learn and grow. Rather, any sign of weakness or ...
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