Category: Business Strategy

Planning your business strategy is important. You need to know what you want to achieve, the paths you want to travel, how step along these paths, and how to keep and motivate the people who will help you down each path.

A business strategy encompasses a broad amount of information. It’s all the things you need to do behind the scenes to support your marketing strategy and keep operations running smooth. It’s all the things for planning and to keep your customer centered business running friction free.

Below are articles and tools (from most recent to oldest) to help you with your strategic business plans.

From among the many articles you’ll find topics about:

Read around. If you don’t find something about the business strategy you’re looking for, just contact me with your questions and I’ll do what I can to help.

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How to Be Noticed, Be Valued, and Be Paid by the Clients You Want Most

How often do you think you’re working too hard? How often do you wonder if you could be attracting better clients? Do you think about how many hours you put into marketing and selling and realize it’s not coming together as it should? Recently I interviewed Dov Gordon for the Fail To Learn podcast. Dov […]

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Consistent Mediocrity

I hate buying a car. The process is horrible. And my old car still runs great. Unfortunately, my bride wanted to upgrade and thought our growing kids were getting tight in the back seat. So she picked the car, we went, and we have a new car. We returned the next day to get the […]

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Lead Goals Vs. Lag Goals

Last year I noticed something awkward. I was looking in the mirror and someone I didn’t fully recognize was looking back at me. The guy looked very familiar. He looked like an older, fatter version of me. I rubbed my eyes and looked again. It is me. Somehow I grew up and got fat. I […]

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Client Vs. Customer - A Critical Difference

How do you view the person who buys your products and services? What label do you prefer to use? Are they a client vs customer? Or, do you use levels of each? I often use the word "customer" when writing here but when someone buys something from me they are a client. Why? Words have […]

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My Gratuitous Use Of The N Word

My bride is baffled at how eagerly I throw the word around.

I love the 'N' word. I use it daily. Often hourly.

What?

Hold on now.

My apologies. Not THAT word...

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The 70-20-10 Ratio To Grow Your Business

Many moons ago, when I began in the life insurance & financial services industry, an experience advisor in our company gave me the ratio 70-20-10. He said it would improve my business and my life. He said I would be able to make a great income today, an incredible living in the future, and become […]

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