Can you get 20% return on your business?

J.D. Meier, quotes Thomas Gray who authored “Business Techniques for Growth”. He makes a comparison of how much return you should be getting on various investments. Here’s what he says: 3-4% return on an A-rated corporate bond; hardly any risk. 9-11% return on the...

Use a Workplace Innovation App to Grow your Business

FileMaker has recently been branded as a “Workplace Innovation App”. That is, it is a complete platform which can be deployed across every type tool needed for your business: on the web, desktop, iPad, iPhone, or any tablet using custom web publishing. It is called...

Is Your Business Outgrowing Excel?

Many businesses start with Excel. It is a great spreadsheet program and works wonderfully for what it was designed to do. But that is the catch; it will work great as a spreadsheet program but not as a tool to run your entire business. There are too many features...

How Many Steps in Your Funnel?

Having a good funnel system is a bit tricky. One the one hand it needs to have enough steps to create meaningful interactions with prospects at each stage. On the other, it cannot have too many or be too complicated. Some of the many multi-step options out there are...

GOALS Will Get You There

It is an established fact that those with written goals for their life and business far exceed those who do not. Many studies have been done over the course of years and looked at people just graduating from college. They grouped the graduates by those who had written...

Six Pillars of Success

About two years ago I met the owners of ActionCoachMN. They are a business coaching company. My accountant had sponsored a breakfast called the “Six Pillars of Success” breakfast. And at that breakfast the ActionCoach people made their presentation. They convinced me...